BAFA-BAR Best Paper Awards for 2025
Lisa Jack and Charlie Cai, Joint Editors of The British Accounting Review, are delighted to announce the winners and runners up of the BAFA-BAR Best Paper Awards for 2025. Congratulations to all the winners!
Best Paper Prize 2025 for Accounting
Bianchi, L., Passetti, E. And Contrafatto, M. (2025). The (non)enactment of intelligent accountability through stakeholder engagement: A micro-processual perspective.
The British Accounting Review, Volume 57(6)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.
Best Paper Prize 2025 for Finance
Zhou, H., Ding, R., Li, Y., & Sun, Y. (2025). Disclosure of investor relationship 8activities and stock crash risk: Evidence from private in-house meetings.
The British Accounting Review, 57(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.
Runners up
For Accounting
Carrión, E., Larrinaga, C. and Gallagher, D.R. (2025). Carbon accounting for the translation of net-zero targets into business operations. The British Accounting Review, Volume 57(2)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.
For Finance:
Wei, C., Dai, L., Fang, X., & Zhang, W. (2025).
Labor protection and stock price crash risk: Evidence from international equity markets. The British Accounting Review, 57(3) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.