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:

Vinnari, E. & Vinnari, M. (2027) (in press). Animal agency and organizational sustainability: toward an ethical framework. In: Teerikangas, S., Onkila, T. & Mäkelä, M. (Eds.) Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency, Vol II. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Powell, L., Vinnari, E. & Ylönen, N. (2026). Accounting, accountability, and animal flourishing. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969160X.2026.2686846

Vinnari, E., Pohjolainen, P. & Vinnari, M. (2026). Perspectives on nonhuman animals in corporate reporting: findings from the Nordic region. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1108/SAMPJ-02-2025-0259  

Mäkelä, H., Apostol, O. & Vinnari, E. (2026). Coping with cognitive dissonance in critical environmental accounting research and education. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 103, 102840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2025.102840

Vinnari, E. (2025). Treading on a tightrope: balancing the roles of an academic activist. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 1-20. 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.