Oana Apostol
PhD
oana.apostol@utu.fi +358 50 414 0260 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku |
Social and environmental accounting and reporting; social movements and counter-accounting; stakeholder dialogue
I graduated my PhD from University of Tampere in 2011. After that, I worked as a researcher for the Institute of Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere and, since 2014, for the Department of Accounting and Finance at Turku School of Economics.
My research interests are mostly with social and environmental accounting and my research projects cover diverse topics from this broad area: accounting and tax avoidance, social movements and counter-accounting, accountability, and stakeholder dialogue.
Teaching responsibilities include master theses supervision, courses on responsible corporate reporting, financial accounting and professional integrity.
- Introducing a Themed Issue on Sustainability Reporting Regulation in Europe (2025)
- Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
- Reflecting on Recent History, Challenges and Scholarship Opportunities (2024)
- Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
- Reflecting on the Impact of Generative AI for Sustainability Accounting Scholarship (2024)
- Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
- Editorial: On the SEAJ Ethos: Mentorship and Peer Review (2023)
- Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
- An Inconvenient Truth: How Organisations Translate Climate Change into Business as Usual (2019)
- Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
- Forward-looking sustainability collaboration within a shipbuilding network
(Paper presented in Corporate Responsibility Research Conference CRRC 2019, Tampere Finland) (2019) Leena Jokinen, Marileena Mäkelä, Helka Kalliomäki, Katariina Heikkilä, Oana Apostol, Jouni Saarni, Tuire Palonen - ‘Paying taxes is losing money’: A qualitative study on institutional logics in the tax consultancy field in Romania (2019)
- Critical Perspectives On Accounting
- Sustainability in shipbuilding: Observations from project-oriented supply network in cruise ship construction (2019) Jouni Saarni, Katariina Heikkilä, Helka Kalliomäki, Marileena Mäkelä, Leena Jokinen, Oana Apostol
- Trust and power as determinants of tax compliance across 44 nations (2019)
- Journal of Economic Psychology
- Accountability to competing account-receivers, implicit and explicit: A case of contests between accountabilities for perfect and imperfect truths (2018)
- Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting



