Tessa Kunkel is an Associate Professor in the Financial Reporting & Audit Department. Her research focuses on accounting standard-setting, sustainability reporting, and auditing. Using an interdisciplinary approach, her work primarily contributes to the literature on careers and professional networks, the political economy of accounting standard-setting, and transnational governance. She uses a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative methods (e.g., interviews) with quantitative approaches (e.g., network and sequence analysis).
Her research has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Organization Studies, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium. She has also co-authored several practitioner-oriented articles and contributed to professional accounting commentaries. (…)
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Tessa Kunkel is an Associate Professor in the Financial Reporting & Audit Department. Her research focuses on accounting standard-setting, sustainability reporting, and auditing. Using an interdisciplinary approach, her work primarily contributes to the literature on careers and professional networks, the political economy of accounting standard-setting, and transnational governance. She uses a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative methods (e.g., interviews) with quantitative approaches (e.g., network and sequence analysis).
Her research has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Organization Studies, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium. She has also co-authored several practitioner-oriented articles and contributed to professional accounting commentaries. She holds a PhD in accounting from Goethe University Frankfurt. Prior to joining ESCP, she held a tenured faculty position at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). She has taught several courses in financial reporting and financial statement analysis and currently teaches courses in sustainability reporting.
