Lies BOUTEN

Lies BOUTEN
Full Professor
Ph.D. in Applied Economics - Ghent University
Track: Accounting
LEM Member
Education
  • 2011 : Ph.D. in Applied Economics, Ghent University, Belgium
  • 2006 : Master in Management For Public Organizations, Ghent University, Belgium
  • 2005 : Master, Economy, Economics, Ghent University, Belgium
Professional Experiences
Academic Experience
  • 2007 - 2011, PhD student, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2006 - 2007, Teaching and Research Assistant, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Published Papers in Refereed Journals
  • Bouten L., Hoozée S., (2024). How sustainability assurance work gets done: assurors’ sensemaking, socialization and interactions with clients, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, NA (NA) NA.
  • Gulko N., Barber K., Bouten L., Churyk N., Everaert P., Gordon E., Kawor S., Lento C., McGuigan N., Middelberg S., Mintah E., Muthaiyah S., Sahoo S., Sarwar M., Uwuigbe O., Withanage N., (2024). Let the students be heard - student voices on teaching excellence awards, Studies in Higher Education, NA (NA) NA.
  • Bouten L., Bayle-Cordier J., Beldi A., Compernolle T., (2023). Boards and CSR: Exploring the individual perceptions of non-executive directors, Accounting Forum, NA (NA) NA.
Show all
  • Korca B., Costa E., Bouten L., (2023). Disentangling the Concept of Comparability in Sustainability Reporting, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 14 (4) 815-851.
  • Bouten L., Hoozée S., (2022). Hybridity in a hotel chain: designing a package of controls to sustain a hybrid mission, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 35 (8) 1862-1991.
  • Everaert Patricia, Bouten L., Baele Annelien, (2019). CSR website disclosure: the influence of the upper echelons, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 32 (2) 421-455.
  • Bouten L., Hoozée S., (2016). Let's do it safely: how Altrad Balliauw configured a package of control systems, Journal of Cleaner Production, 136 (part A) 172-180.
  • Bouten L., Hoozée S., (2015). Challenges in Sustainability and Integrated Reporting, Issues in Accounting Education, 30 (4) 373-381.
  • Bouten L., Everaert P., (2015). Social and environmental reporting in Belgium: pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés , Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 33 24-43.
  • Bouten L., Hoozée S., (2013). On the interplay between environmental reporting and management accounting change, Management Accounting Research, 24 (4) 333-348.
  • Bouten L., Everaert P., Roberts R.W., (2012). How a Two-Step Approach Discloses Different Determinants of Voluntary Social and Environmental Reporting, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 39 (5&6) 567-605.
  • Bouten L., Everaert P., (2012). CSR reporting in Belgium (MVO-rapportering in België), Accountancy & Bedrijfskunde, 32 (2) 26-36.
  • Bouten L., Everaert P., Van Liedekerke L., De Moor L., Christiaens J., (2011). Corporate Social Responsibility: A comprehensive picture?, Accounting Forum, 35 (3) 187-201.
Book Chapters
  • Bouten L., Michelon G., Roberts R. W., (2024), The Challenge of Measuring CSR Performance, in: Handbook on Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility.
  • Bouten L., Hoozée S., (2020), Designing eco-controls for multi-objective organizations, in: Routledge handbook of environmental accounting and reporting.
Research field
  • Social and environmental accounting
Teaching
Grande Ecole (Bachelor cycle) :
  • Financial analysis
Grande Ecole (Master cycle) :
  • Research techniques 2
  • Research techniques 1
  • Controlling & auditing corporate social responsability
  • Audit and control research seminar