Research

Research interests

  • Sustainability and ESG reporting
  • Climate change reporting
  • Audit and Assurance
  • Integrated reporting and thinking
  • Financial reporting
  • Corporate governance

My research has been funded by

  • Financial Reporting Council, UK
  • Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, UK
  • Basildon Council, UK
  • Global Challenges Research Fund, UK
  • Essex Business School Research Committee, UK
  • Jan Wallander & Tom Hedelius Foundation, Sweden
  • Jönköping Chamber of Commerce, Sweden

Papers in academic journals

  • Baboukardos D., and Kopita A. (2024) Integrated Reporting and the informativeness of financial analysts’ stock recommendations, The International Journal of Accounting, 59(2), 2450009. link to publication
  • Baboukardos D., Kopita A., Jensen C., and Demetriades E. (2024) Carbon reporting regulation: Real effects, external pressures, and internal policies, Business Strategy and the Environment, 33(5), 4871-4886. link to publication
  • Andronoudis D., Baboukardos D., and Tsoligkas F. (2024) How the information content of Integrated Reporting flows into the stock market, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 29(1), 1057-1078. link to publication
  • Baboukardos D., Gaia S., Lassou P., and Soobaroyen T. (2023) The multiverse of non-financial reporting regulation, Accounting Forum, 47(2), 147-165. link to publication
  • Gaia S., and Baboukardos D. (2023) Ethnic minorities, local income inequalities and COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from English local councils, Regional Studies, 57(10), 2006-2020. link to publication
  • Alrashidi R., Baboukardos D., and Arun T. (2021) Audit and non-audit fees and access to finance: Evidence from India, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 43(100397). link to publication
  • Baboukardos D., Mangena M., and Ishola A. (2021) Integrated Thinking and sustainability reporting assurance: International evidence, Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(4), 1580-1597. link to publication
  • Baboukardos D., Beddewela E., and Soobaroyen T. (2021) Highlighting some ‘blind spots’: Mapping the theoretical underpinnings of sustainability accounting and management research in Emerging and Developing Economies, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 12(4), 719-732. link to publication
  • Baboukardos D., Gaia S., and She C. (2021) Social performance and social media activity in times of pandemic: Evidence from COVID-19 related tweets, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 21(6), 1271-1289. link to publication
  • Baboukardos D. (2018) The valuation relevance of environmental performance revisited: The moderating role of environmental provisions, British Accounting Review, 50(1), 32-47. link to publication
  • Baboukardos D. (2017) Market valuation of greenhouse gas emissions under a mandatory reporting regime: Evidence from the UK, Accounting Forum, 41(3), 221-233. link to publication
  • Baboukardos D., and Rimmel G. (2016) Value relevance of accounting information under an integrated reporting approach: A research note, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 35(4), 437–452. link to publication
  • Baboukardos D., and Rimmel G. (2014) Goodwill under IFRS: Relevance and disclosures in an unfavorable environment, Accounting Forum, 38 (1), 1-17. link to publication

Chapters in books (Refereed)

  • Rimmel G., Aras G., Baboukardos D., Krasodomska J., Nielsen C. and Schiemann F. (2024). A new era of sustainability reporting research on the horizon: an outlook, in Rimmel G., Aras G., Baboukardos D., Krasodomska J., Nielsen C. and Schiemann F. (eds.) Research Handbook on Sustainability Reporting, (pp. 505-511) UK: Edward Elgar.
  • Rimmel G., Aras G., Baboukardos D., Krasodomska J., Nielsen C. and Schiemann F. (2024). Multifaceted, complex, and multilayered aspects of sustainability reporting research: an introduction, in Rimmel G., Aras G., Baboukardos D., Krasodomska J., Nielsen C. and Schiemann F. (eds.) Research Handbook on Sustainability Reporting, (pp. 2-11) UK: Edward Elgar.
  • Rimmel G., Baboukardos D. and Jonäll K. (2018). Revival of the fittest? – Intellectual capital in Swedish companies, in Guthrie J., Dumay J., Ricceri F., and Nielsen C. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital, (pp. 347-364) UK: Routledge Publishing.
  • Baboukardos D. and Akhter N. (2017). Financial performance of family vs non-family firms in the context of an economy in turmoil: A market from ‘developed’ to ‘emerging’, in Ramirez-Pasillas M., Brundin E. and Markowska M. (eds.) Contextualizing entrepreneurship in emerging economies and developing countries, (pp. 288-303) UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Baboukardos D. (2011). Transparency in fair value accounting under IFRS: An examination of Greek listed companies’ level of compliance with IFRS goodwill disclosure requirements, in Karasavvoglou G.A. (ed.) The economies of Balkan and Eastern Europe countries in the changed world, (pp. 342-367) UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing