Tools, Strategies, and Practices for Modern and Accountable Public Sector Management

He has a PhD in Accounting from the School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, Portugal. He is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at ISCTE-IUL Business School, Lisbon. He has previously worked at the University of Aveiro as an Adjunct Professor of Accounting. His research interests are corporate risk reporting, corporate governance mechanisms, impression management strategies used corporate reporting, sustainability and integrated reporting. He publishes academic articles in some well-recognized journals such as the Managerial Auditing Journal, Australian Accounting Review, Corporate Communications: an International Journal, Meditari Accountancy Research, European Business Review, and Journal of Risk. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Accounting and Finance Research. He has own some best papers awards. Recently, he has researched on topics related to corporate social responsibility and integrated reporting. Currently, he supervises PhD students on integrated reporting, corporate social responsibility and risk reporting (enterprise risk management). Rui Pedro Figueiredo Marques received the PhD degree in Computer Science in 2014 from the universities of Minho, Aveiro and Porto, three of the top universities in the north of Portugal. In 2008 he concluded his Masters degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, at the University of Aveiro, and in 2005 he graduated in the same area, also from the University of Aveiro. His main research interests are related to the integration of Information Systems into organizational topics, contributing with solutions to improve the risk management and the organizational efficiency. He is Professor of Information Systems and Technology since 2007 at the Higher Institute of Accounting and Administration, University of Aveiro, Portugal.