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Overview

Gerrit Sarens is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on Accounting as a significant subfield. Other areas of study include Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Marketing, and Building and Construction.

The main topics addressed in Sarens's work include:

  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Risk Management in Financial Firms
  • Information Technology Governance and Strategy
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
  • Accounting and Organizational Management

Recent published papers by Gerrit Sarens encompass various aspects of internal audit and organizational governance. These include:

  • Understanding the internal audit function in a digitalised business environment, 2020, Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
  • Correlates of internal audit function involvement in sustainability audits, 2020, Journal of Management & Governance
  • Effects of digitalisation of organisations on internal audit activities and practices, 2021, Managerial Auditing Journal
  • Crisis? What crisis? Exploring the cognitive constraints on boards of directors in times of uncertainty, 2020, Journal of Business Research
  • Factors that Influence the Internal Audit Function's Maturity, 2020, Accounting Horizons

Sarens frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Nathanaël Betti
  • Steven DeSimone
  • Giuseppe D'Onza
  • Ingrid Poncin
  • Alessandro Merendino

Publications have appeared in several academic journals, reflecting a diverse scholarly engagement across related fields. The primary publication venues include:

  • Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
  • Journal of Management & Governance
  • Managerial Auditing Journal
  • Journal of Business Research
  • Accounting Horizons

Best Publications

  • A critical analysis of the independence of the internal audit function: evidence from Australia

    Joe Christopher;Gerrit Sarens;Philomena Leung

  • The Relationship between Internal Audit and Senior Management: A Qualitative Analysis of Expectations and Perceptions

    Gerrit Sarens;Ignace De Beelde

  • Internal auditors' perception about their role in risk management : A comparison between US and Belgian companies

    Gerrit Sarens;Ignace De Beelde

  • Internal audit: A comfort provider to the audit committee

    Gerrit Sarens;Gerrit Sarens;Ignace De Beelde;Patricia Everaert

  • Monitoring effects of the internal audit function: agency theory versus other explanatory variables

    Gerrit Sarens;Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi

  • Using Transaction Cost Economics to explain outsourcing of accounting

    Patricia Everaert;Gerrit Sarens;Gerrit Sarens;Jan Rommel

  • Cost modeling in logistics using time‐driven ABC: Experiences from a wholesaler

    Patricia Everaert;Werner Bruggeman;Gerrit Sarens;Steven R Anderson

  • Factors associated with the internal audit function's role in corporate governance

    Gerrit Sarens;Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi;Rainer Lenz

  • Informal interactions between audit committees and internal audit functions: Exploratory evidence and directions for future research

    Mahbub Zaman;Gerrit Sarens

  • Internal Auditing Research: Where are we going? Editorial

    Gerrit Sarens

  • The European literature review on internal auditing

    Marco Allegrini;Giuseppe D'Onza;Leen Paape;Robert Melville

  • Sourcing strategy of Belgian SMEs: empirical evidence for the accounting services

    Patricia Everaert;Gerrit Sarens;Jan Rommel

  • Understanding the internal audit function in a digitalised business environment

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  • Reflections on the internal auditing profession: what might have gone wrong?

    Rainer Lenz;Gerrit Sarens

  • Probing the discriminatory power of characteristics of Internal Audit Functions: Sorting the wheat from the chaff

    Rainer Lenz;Gerrit Sarens;Kenneth D'Silva

  • Characteristics of target costing: theoretical and field study perspectives

    Patricia Everaert;Stijn Loosveld;Tom Van Acker;Marijke Schollier

  • Are Internal Auditing Practices Related to the Age of the Internal Audit Function? Exploratory Evidence and Directions for Future Research

    Gerrit Sarens;Marco Allegrini;Giuseppe D'Onza;Robert Melville

  • Preparing work-ready graduates – skills development lessons learnt from internal audit practice

    Kato Plant;Karin Barac;Gerrit Sarens

  • The relationship between audit committee characteristics and financial statement quality: evidence from Belgium

    Nicolas De Vlaminck;Gerrit Sarens

  • Implementing combined assurance: insights from multiple case studies

    Loïc Decaux;Gerrit Sarens

  • The Association between Corporate Governance Guidelines and Risk Management and Internal Control Practices: Evidence from a Comparative Study

    Gerrit Sarens;Joe Christopher

  • Contemporary internal auditing practices : (new) roles and influencing variables. Evidence from extended case studies

    G. Sarens;I. de Beelde

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Keil
Mark Keil Georgia State University

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