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BOUTEN Lies
Domain: Accounting
Full Professor
Lies Bouten’s research focuses on sustainability accounting and reporting. More specifically, her work addresses the interface between sustainability reporting, management accounting and assurance as well as on recent trends and regulations in sustainability/non-financial reporting. In 2011, she obtained her Ph.D. entitled ‘On the determinants of social and environmental reporting and its role as an accountability mechanism’ from Ghent University.
She is also a member of Lille Economie Management (LEM), a joint research unit (no. 9221) of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Research interests and expertise
CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive)double materialitygreen taxonomyhybrid organisationsintegrated thinkingSFDR (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation)sustainability accountingLast contributions

CSR, Sustainability & Diversity
Apples and oranges? The challenges of comparing sustainability reporting
03/25/2024
4 min

Economics & Finance
Hybrid organizations: how can management controls prevent mission drift? Interview with Lies Bouten
09/08/2022
4 min