Personer Othmar Lehner

Othmar Lehner

Title

Biträdande professor (tenure track), Director of the Center of Accounting, Finance and governance

Mobile phone

+358 50 578 6401

E-post:

othmar.lehner@hanken.fi

Department

Redovisning (Helsingfors)

Om mig:

Professor Lehner is the Director of the Hanken Centre of Accounting, Finance and Governance in Helsinki, the Vice Dean for the QTEM Masters' network for Finland, and the Honorary Director of the ACRN Oxford research network.

His research interests are Impact Investing as well as the digital transformation of the accounting and finance industry with Big Data, Data Science and AI applications. In this role he is also the honorary chair of the Quantum Data Center at Hanken.

In his more than 25 years of field experience, he directed several large R&D projects from the strategic planning through the training and implementation phases in the private and public sectors.

He habilitated in the fields of Accounting as well as in the field of Information Sciences, and is an associate professor for Accounting in Helsinki at the Hanken School of Economics, a docent in information sciences at the University of Jyväskylä and a fractional full professor in Finance at the Middlesex University London.

Before his current posts, he worked as professorial fellow at the University of Oxford. During that time, he developed one of the first big data-driven portfolio optimization models to include ESG related social and environmental risks and returns for use in UK and US pension funds, and has contributed to the revisions of the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 on the taxation of Crowdfunding for social ventures. Before this, he was a senior risk manager and chartered financial accountant in the banking industry.

Prof. Lehner is a regular reviewer at Accounting Organizations and Society and the Journal of Business Ethics. He is the editor in chief of the Emerald Journal of Applied Accounting Research (ABDC:B ranked) and the author of the influential Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance.

Recently, he was nominated and a finalist for the Carolyne B. Dexter best international paper award by the Academy of Management (AOM) in 2018, and has won the Emerald Literati - Outstanding Paper Award in Accounting 2020.

Utbildning

Ekon. dr, företagsekonomi, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2012

Forskningsområden

Kurser

Publikationer

Senaste publikationer

Minna Martikainen, Othmar Lehner, Shawnie Kruskopf, Charlotta Lobbas, Hanna Meinander, Kira Söderling2020,'Digital Accounting and the Human Factor: Theory and Practice',ACRN Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives,vol. 9,no. 1,pp. 78-89.https://doi.org/10.35944/jofrp.2020.9.1.

Minna Martikainen, Othmar Lehner, Max Gotthardt, Dan Koivulaakso, Okyanus Paksoy, Cornelius Saramo2020,'Current State and Challenges in the Implementation of Smart Robotic Process Automation in Accounting and Auditing',ACRN Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives,vol. 9,no. 1,pp. 90-102.https://doi.org/10.35944/jofrp.2020.9.1.

Othmar Lehner, Christina Binder2020,'The problem of heterogeneity within risk weights',ACRN Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives,vol. 8,no. 1,pp. 183-205.https://doi.org/10.35944/jofrp.2019.8.1.012

Othmar Lehner, Bianca Fischer, Bernadette Gral2020,'SOX Section 404 Twenty Years After: Reviewing Costs and Benefits',ACRN Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives,vol. 9,no. 1,pp. 103-112.https://doi.org/10.35944/jofrp.2020.9.1.

Othmar Lehner, Robyn Owen, Fergus Lyon, Geraldine Brennan2020,'Early stage investing in green SMEs',ACRN Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives,vol. 8,pp. 163-182.https://doi.org/10.35944/jofrp.2019.8.1.011

Othmar Lehner, Christiana Weber, Kathrin Lambrich, James Wallace2020,'Do Relation-Specific Investments Pay Off? Comparing NetValue of Cross- & Within-Sector Partnerships',Academy of Management Proceedings,vol. 2020,no. 1,pp. 19147.https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2020.19147abstract

Othmar Lehner, Theresia Harrer2019,'Accounting for economic sustainability',Journal of Applied Accounting Research,vol. 20,no. 4,pp. 365-371.https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-06-2019-0096

Othmar Lehner, Theresia Harrer2019,'Crowdfunding and Societal Change: A Critical Feminist Perspective on Entrepreneurial Discourse',Academy of Management Proceedings,vol. 2019,no. 1,https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2019.10657abstract

Othmar Lehner, Theresia Harrer2019,'Crowdfunding revisited',Venture Capital,vol. 21,no. 1,pp. 75-96.https://doi.org/10.1080/13691066.2019.1560884

Othmar Lehner, Romina Simlinger2019,'When function meets emotion, change can happen',International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation,vol. 20,no. 4,pp. 277-288.https://doi.org/10.1177/1465750319857974

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