The title Researcher of the Month is awarded every month as a special recognition and appreciation of the research achievements of the distinguished person.

Stéphanie Mittelbach-Hörmanseder

is a senior assistant professor at the Financial Accounting and Auditing Group, Institute for Accounting and Auditing, and, even at this relatively early stage in her career, she already has an impressive record of excellent accomplishments in research.

Stéphanie Mittelbach-Hörmanseder, a native of Vienna and of French extraction, studied International Business Administration at WU and Technical Mathematics at TU Wien. She completed a master’s degree in International Management (CEMS) at HEC Paris and obtained her doctoral degree from WU in 2010. She gained professional experience working in industry settings and consulting, and her current focus is on academic research in the field of national and international accounting, sustainability reporting, and corporate governance. She has received numerous awards for her research and teaching activities, for instance the Stephan Koren Prize for her doctoral dissertation on balance sheet accounting for pension provisions and WU’s Excellent Teaching Award.

She regularly presents her research at a number of international conferences, for example the annual conferences of the European and American Accounting Associations, and she has published in renowned national and international journals such as Zeitschrift für Recht und Rechnungswesen, SWI – Steuer und Wirtschaft International, and BFuP – Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis. Stéphanie Mittelbach-Hörmanseder is a visiting scholar at the University of Regensburg.

In her <link forschung wu-forscherinnen rom18 stephanie-mittelbach-hoermanseder>research video, Stéphanie Mittelbach-Hörmanseder presents her current work on companies’ CSR reports, highlights the international differences she has found in these reports, and explains why the tone of the language that companies use in their reports differs from country to country.