Dr Elisavet Mantzari

Dr Elisavet Mantzari

The Department of Accounting
Lecturer in Accounting

Contact details

Email
e.mantzari@bham.ac.uk
Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Elisavet Mantzari is a Lecturer in Accounting at the Birmingham Business School. Her research interests cover a range of topics including international financial reporting standard-setting and practice, critical accounting theory and sustainability accounting. 

Qualifications

  • PhD in Accounting and Financial Management
  • MSc in Accounting and Management
  • BSc (Hons) in Business Administration

Biography

Elisavet joined Birmingham Business School in September 2016. Elisavet has professional experience as an accountant and has worked as an auditor in a ‘Big Four’ audit firm.

Elisavet’s research is broadly concerned with developing an understanding of the changing roles of accounting within the context of shifting societal values, ideological demands, and power relations in the international arena. She is interested in the everyday use of accounting information by practitioners and the public more broadly, and has been involved in research projects related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) theory and practice, both in the UK and internationally. Central to her current research activities is the exploration of accountability in the context of cooperatives and the role of critical accounting praxis. Elisavet has presented papers at research conferences both in the UK and overseas and is currently in charge of organising the research seminars for the BBS accounting group.

Teaching

  • Financial Statement Analysis for Investors
  • Financial Accounting Theory

Postgraduate supervision

Elisavet is interested in supervising postgraduate and doctoral students in the following areas:

  • Financial reporting standard-setting and practice
  • Social, environmental and sustainability accounting
  • Critical accounting studies and research methods, including classical Marxism
  • Accounting for cooperatives

Elisavet is interested in supervising postgraduate and doctoral students in the following areas:

  • Financial reporting standard-setting and practice
  • Social, environmental and sustainability accounting
  • Critical accounting studies and research methods, including classical Marxism
  • Accounting for cooperatives

Publications

Journal articles: 

  • Georgiou, O., Mantzari, E., & Mundy, J. (2021). Problematising the decision-usefulness of fair values: empirical evidence from UK financial analysts. Accounting and Business Research, DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2020.1814687
  • Mantzari, E., & Georgiou, O. (2019). Ideological hegemony and consent to IFRS: Insights from practitioners in Greece. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 59, 70-93.
  • Phiri, O., Mantzari, E., & Gleadle, P. (2019). Stakeholder interactions and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices: Evidence from the Zambian copper mining sector. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 32(1), 26-54.
  • Mantzari, E., Sigalas, C., & Hines, T. (2017, May). Adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards by Greek non-listed companies: The role of coercive and hegemonic pressures, Accounting Forum, 41(3), 185-205.

Book chapters:

  • Phiri, O., & Mantzari, E. (2018). CSR Disclosure Practices in the Zambia Mining Industry. In Sustainability and Social Responsibility: Regulation and Reporting (pp. 471-504). Springer, Singapore.
  • Sahinidis, A. G., Daskalaki, D., Mantzari, E., & Mantzaris, I. (2018). The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Corporate Social Responsibility Activities of Greek Companies. In Sustainability and Social Responsibility: Regulation and Reporting (pp. 241-258). Springer, Singapore.
  • Reklitis, P., Trivellas, P., Mantzaris, I., Mantzari, E., & Reklitis, D. (2018). Employee Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities and Work-Related Attitudes: The Case of a Greek Management Services Organization. In Sustainability and Social Responsibility: Regulation and Reporting (pp. 225-240). Springer, Singapore.

Book reviews:

  • Mantzari, E. (2014) book review on Critical Histories of Accounting: Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era by R. K. Fleischman, W.  Funnell and S. P. Walker in International Critical Thought, 4(1): 98-107.