Dr Annika Beelitz

Dr Annika Beelitz

The Department of Accounting
Lecturer in Accounting

Contact details

Email
a.beelitz@bham.ac.uk
Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Annika Beelitz is a Lecturer in Accounting at Birmingham Business School. Her research interests are corporate social responsibility and reporting, corporate communication, organisational legitimacy and impression management. Her research is inter-disciplinary and focuses in particular on corporate communication following corporate crises. She joined the University of Birmingham in January 2020.

Qualifications

PhD in Accounting, Bangor University (2017). MSc in Accounting and Finance, Bangor University (2011). BA in International Cultural and Business Studies, University of Passau (2009).

Teaching

Advanced Financial Accounting (UG) Managing Financial Resources (UG)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Beelitz, A & Merkl-Davies, D 2019, 'Discursive framing in private and public communication by pro-nuclear corporate, political and regulatory actors following the Fukushima disaster', Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1585-1614. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-05-2017-2928

Brennan , NM, Merkl-Davies, D & Beelitz, A 2013, 'Dialogism in Corporate Social Responsibility Communications: Conceptualising Verbal Interaction Between Organisations and Their Audiences', Journal of Business Ethics, pp. 665-679. <https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10551-013-1825-9.pdf>

Beelitz, A & Merkl-Davies, D 2011, 'Using Discourse to Restore Organisational Legitimacy: ‘CEO-speak’ After an Incident in a German Nuclear Power Plant', Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 101-120. <https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10551-011-1065-9.pdf>