Renata Stenka

Dr Renata Stenka is currently an Associate Professor in Accounting at Henley Business School. She holds the position of Programme Area Director for Postgraduate Studies in Accounting, providing strategic oversight for the development and delivery of the entire postgraduate portfolio in Accounting at HBS.

She completed her PhD in Financial Accounting at the University of Liverpool in the UK and, before moving to HBS, she held her first academic position at Keele University, UK. Prior to that, she studied at the University of Szczecin in Poland and the University of Odense in Denmark, where she was awarded a national scholarship by the Danish government to proceed onto her doctoral research.

Her novel interdisciplinary scholarly work integrates cognitive sociolinguistic and more quantitative corpus-based analytical paradigms to study corporate and regulatory discourses in the accounting context. Her research explores discursive pathways of institutionalisation of professional and regulatory practices. Most recently, Renata’s work considers how ever-increasing sustainability values and movements have challenged the ‘conventional’ shareholder focus of accounting and corporate reporting. Her current research interests relate to issues considering the implementation of the social and environmental corporate reporting innovations worldwide with a specific focus on the political and institutional aspects of accounting policy-making and regulation.

Renata’s work has been published in the top international journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Accounting and Business Research. She is also a recipient of awards from the British Academy for her research projects.

Renata is involved in collaborative work with scholars from the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society and Faculty of Economics at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Switzerland.

Specialisms

• Corporate Reporting
• Social and Environmental Accounting
• Sustainability
• Accounting Policy Making and Regulation
• Discourse Analysis
• Corpus Linguistics
• IFRS

Papers:

Stenka, R. “Discourse in international accounting standard setting: legitimacy viewed through a Bourdieusian lens”, American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Conference, Atlanta, US August 2014

Stenka, R. and Kokot, P. “Accounting as interpretive framing”, British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, March 2015.

Stenka, R. and Grossi, G. “For the public without the public”, International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK, March/April 2015.

Stenka, R. and Kokot, P. “The multidimensional character of accounting numbers”, Alternative Accounts Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, April 2015.

Stenka, R. and Kokot, P. “Numbers in Motion”, Financial Reporting and Business Communication Annual Conference, Bristol, July 2015.

Churyk. N, Stenka. R. Accounting for Complex Investment Transactions. Journal of Accounting Education, Vol. 32, Issue 4 (2014).

Alexander, D. and Stenka, R. (2013)Capturing meaning construction in financial disclosure. In: Discourses Approach to Financial Communication, 2-6 February 2014, Ascona, Switzerland.

'Setting UK Standards on the Concept of Control: An Analysis of Lobbying Behaviour', Accounting and Business Research, Vol. 40 (2) 2010: 109-130 (co-author Prof. Peter Taylor, University of Liverpool)

'Convergence to IFRS and the Evolution of the Regulation on the Concept of Control used for Group Accounts: A UK Perspective', Investment Research and Analysis Journal, Vol. 1 (2), 2006: 28-51 (co-author Prof. Peter Taylor, University of Liverpool)

'Major Implications of the Introduction of EURO for Financial Strategies of Small and Medium Size Businesses', Financial and Marketing Strategies, Vol. 1, Dec 1999: 15-27, University of Szczecin, Poland.

'The Concept of Capital Group in Accounting and Tax Regulations in Europe: A Comparative Study', Topics in Management and Finance, Vol. 1, Sept 1998: 23-38, University of Szczecin, Poland.

'Power Versus Benefits as Contestants for Defining Control: Evidence from the Current Joint IASB/FASB Projects', submitted to Abacus, the paper is based on the project funded by the British Academy.

'Rhetoric in International Standard Setting Process: Strategies Employed by the IASB/FASB and the Constituents', work in progress, the paper is based on the project funded by the British Academy.

'Lobbying in the International Regulatory Domain: the IASB/FASB Projects on the Concept of Control', work in progress, the paper is based on the project funded by the British Academy.

'Power Versus Benefits as Contestants for Defining Control: Evidence from the Current Joint IASB/FASB Projects'- work in progress, the paper is based on the project funded by the British Academy.

'Normative Nature of Accounting Standards: How 'Accounting Reality' is Ordered and Constructed in International Regulatory Domain' - work in progress.

External Funding: 

Awarded the British Academy Grant for a research project: 'Lobbying in the International Accounting Standard-Setting Process: Evidence from the Recent IASB/FASB Projects' (SG090939), February 2010.

Awarded an Overseas Conference Grant by the British Academy (OCG-52750), December 2008.

Books:

'The Impact of IFRS Adoption in the UK - Issues in Group Accounting', in Venu, L. (ed.), Convergence to International Financial Reporting Standards - Country Perspectives, ACFAI's Professional Reference Book, Rotterdam, ESSEC KPMG, May 2008: 117-141 (co-author Mr. Phil Ormrod, University of Liverpool).