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Overview

Niamh Brennan is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their research spans various subfields including Accounting, Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management Information Systems, and Marketing.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics primarily focused on auditing, earnings management, and governance. Other main topics covered include accounting and organizational management, management and organizational studies, corporate finance and governance, corporate social responsibility reporting, accounting education and careers, and corporate identity and reputation.

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Sean Bradley Power
  • Collette E. Kirwan
  • Neil J. Dunne
  • Victoria C. Edgar
  • Helen R. Pernelet

Research from Niamh Brennan has appeared regularly in several scholarly venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • The British Accounting Review
  • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • Accounting Finance & Governance Review/Accounting finance & governance review
  • Critical Perspectives on Accounting
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • Connecting earnings management to the real World: What happens in the black box of the boardroom?, 2021, The British Accounting Review
  • COVID-19 profit warnings: Delivering bad news in a time of crisis, 2021, The British Accounting Review
  • Impression management and Big Four auditors: Scrutiny at a public inquiry, 2020, Accounting Organizations and Society
  • Implementing the European Union Green Taxonomy: implications for small- and medium-sized enterprises, 2023, Accounting Forum
  • Grounded Theory: Description, Divergences and Application, 2021, Accounting Finance & Governance Review/Accounting finance & governance review

Best Publications

  • Discretionary disclosure strategies in corporate narratives: incremental information or impression management?

    Doris M. Merkl-Davies;Niamh Brennan

  • Reporting intellectual capital in annual reports: evidence from Ireland

    Niamh Brennan

  • Intellectual capital: current issues and policy implications

    Niamh Brennan;Brenda Connell

  • Corporate governance, accountability and mechanisms of accountability: an overview

    Niamh Brennan;J. Solomon

  • Accounting narratives and impression management

    Niamh M. Brennan;Doris M. Merkl-Davies

  • Methodological Insights: Impression management: Developing and illustrating a scheme of analysis for narrative disclosures – a methodological note

    Niamh M. Brennan;Encarna Guillamon‐Saorin;Aileen Pierce

  • Impression management and retrospective sense‐making in corporate narratives: A social psychology perspective

    Doris M. Merkl‐Davies;Niamh M. Brennan;Stuart J. McLeay

  • A conceptual framework of impression management: new insights from psychology, sociology, and critical perspectives

    Doris M. Merkl-Davies;Niamh Brennan

  • Boards of directors and firm performance: is there an expectations gap?

    Niamh Brennan

  • Corporate reporting on the internet by Irish companies

    Niamh Brennan;Denis Hourigan

  • A study of whistleblowing among trainee auditors

    Niamh Brennan;John Kelly

  • Rhetoric and Argument in Social and Environmental Reporting: the Dirty Laundry case

    Niamh Brennan;Doris M. Merkl-Davies

  • A theoretical framework of external accounting communication: Research perspectives, traditions, and theories

    Doris M. Merkl-Davies;Niamh M. Brennan

  • Executive Hubris: The Case of a Bank CEO

    Niamh Brennan;John P. Conroy

  • Financial Statement Fraud: Some Lessons from US and European Case Studies

    Niamh M. Brennan;Mary McGRATH

  • Voluntary Disclosure of Profit Forecasts by Target Companies in Takeover Bids

    Niamh Brennan

  • Dialogism in Corporate Social Responsibility Communications: Conceptualising Verbal Interaction Between Organisations and Their Audiences

    Niamh M. Brennan;Doris M. Merkl-Davies;Annika Beelitz

  • An exploration of the relationship between language choice in CEO letters to shareholders and corporate reputation

    Russell J. Craig;Niamh M. Brennan

  • Corporate Governance Practices in Irish Companies

    Niamh Brennan;Jacqueline McCafferty

  • Alternative Perspectives on Independence of Directors

    Niamh Brennan;Michael McDermott

  • Impression Management: Developing and Illustrating a Scheme of Analysis for Narrative Disclosures - A Methodological Note

    Niamh M. Brennan;Encarna Guillamon Saorin;Aileen Pierce

  • Title Corporate reporting on the internet by Irish companies

    Niamh Brennan;Denis Hourigan

Frequent Co-Authors

Sidney J. Gray
Sidney J. Gray University of Sydney
John Kelly
John Kelly University College London
Russell Craig
Russell Craig University of Canterbury
Nava Subramaniam
Nava Subramaniam Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University

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