Eija Vinnari

Member of: Research Group on Sustainability and Critical Accounting, Research Group on Public Financial Management  

Accounting, activism, animals, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, critical research

Recent publications:

Mäkelä, H., Apostol, O. & Vinnari, E. (forthcoming). Coping with cognitive dissonance in critical environmental accounting research and education. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 

Vinnari, E. (forthcoming). Treading on a tightrope: balancing the roles of an academic activist. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969160X.2025.2546882

Kingston, K., Luke, B. & Vinnari, E. (2025). Understanding beneficiary evaluative capacity within nonprofit organisations through an immanent perspective. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 38(2), 643-673. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-02-2024-6906

Apostol, O., Mäkelä, H. & Vinnari, E. (2023). Cultural sustainability and the construction of (in)commensurability: cultural heritage at the Roşia Montană mining site. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 97, 102577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2023.102577

Lukka, K., Modell, S. and Vinnari, E. (2022). Exploring the “theory is king” thesis in accounting research: the case of actor-network theory. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 35(9), 136-167.

Vinnari, E. & Vinnari, M. (2022). Making the invisibles visible: including animals in sustainability (and) accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 82, 102324.

Vinnari, E., Baxter, J. & Chua, W.F. (2022). Accounting, accountability and animals. Editorial. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 84, paper 102412.

Vinnari, E. (2021). Animals, activists and accounting: On confronting an intellectual dead end. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 41(3), 194-200.

Peda, P. & Vinnari, E. (2020). The discursive legitimation of profit in public-private service delivery. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2019.06.002

Dillard, J. & Vinnari, E. (2019). Critical dialogic accountability: From accounting-based accountability to accountability-based accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 62, 16-38.