Georgios Voulgaris

Dr George Voulgaris is Visiting Professor of Accounting at the University of Vaasa and Associate Professor of Accounting at Alliance Manchester Business School.

His research focuses on corporate governance, executive characteristics, sustainability, and financial disclosures, with a growing emphasis on the intersections between ESG and institutional accountability. George has published in leading international journals such as Human Relations, European Accounting Review, British Accounting Review, Corporate Governance: An International Reviewand British Journal of Management, and is currently Editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review.

His international profile is reflected in prior visiting appointments at NYU Stern and Hanken School of Economics. He is an active participant in global research networks and presents regularly at leading conferences including EAA, AAA, CAAA and ICGS.

George has extensive experience in teaching and curriculum development across undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. He has led the design of core modules in Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting, and continues to supervise PhD and MSc students.

He is a member of the ICAS Research Panel and the European Accounting Association External Relations Committee.  George also serves on the editorial board of Accounting & Business Research, and has held reviewing roles for a wide range of journals.

Recent Publications

• “Intra-professional boundaries and status struggles in a nascent professional accounting field”, with Arturs Praulins and Crawford Spence, Accounting Forum, forthcoming

• “Ethnic Diversity and Monitoring Effectiveness of the Board: Evidence from the Banking Industry”, with Mohamed Janahi and Yuval Millo, The International Journal of Accounting, forthcoming

• “Strategy and business model disclosures in annual reports: The role of legal regime”, with Vasiliki Athanasakou, Abdlmutaleb Boshanna and Natalia Kochetova, British Accounting Review, 56 (2024), p.101190

• “Age Diversity and the Monitoring Role of Corporate Boards: Evidence from Banks” with Mohamed Janahi and Yuval Millo, Human Relations, 76 (2023): 1599-1633

• “Asymmetric Effects of Fair Value Adjustments on Divident Policy”, with Kostas Bozos and Alexandros Sikalidis, International Review of Financial Analysis, 90 (2023):

• “Emerging from the shadow of the Soviet Union: the case of the accountancy field in Latvia”, with Arturs Praulins and Crawford Spence, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 35 (2022): 1775-1802

• “Employment policies in private loss firms: Return to profitability and the role of family CEOs”, with Jukka Kettonen and Minna Martikainen, Journal of Business Research, 135 (2021): 373-390

• “CFO gender and financial reporting transparency in banks”, with Mohamed Janahi and Yuval Millo, European Journal of Finance, 27 (2021):199-221

• “Accounting Conservatism and Corporate Social Responsibility”, with Seraina Anagnostopoulou and Andrianos Tsekrekos, British Accounting Review, 53 (2021): Article 100942