• Best Paper Award (runner-up), German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), 2018
• Best Conference Reviewer Award, German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), 2016
• Fellowship at the Schoeller Research Centre for Business and Society, 2015
• Michael Munkert Award for Applied Audit Research, 2013
• Ernst Zander Award of the Alwin Reemtsma Foundation for Research in Management and Economics, 2012
• Academic Dissertation Award of the German Institute for Share Promotion (DAI), 2012
• Best Conference Paper Award, German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), 2010

Editorial Board Member at

• The International Journal of Accounting
• Management Review Quarterly

Michael Stich studied Business Administration (Honors Program of the Elite Network of Bavaria) at the University of Regensburg and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Chair of Accounting and Auditing of the Ruhr-University Bochum and earned a doctorate in management and economics. From 2011 to 2017, he served as an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2017 to 2021, he was a Professor of Empirical Accounting at the University of Cologne. In April 2021, he joined the TUM Campus Heilbronn as Professor of Accounting and Academic Program Director for the Bachelor Program in Management and Technology.

• Do transparency regulations thwart corporate social responsibility? (Stich, M.): This paper demonstrates that several mandatory reporting requirements induce managerial myopia and work against the sustainable development of the global economy.
• Earnings management around the ‘Tax Cuts and Jobs Act‘ of 2017 (Lynch, D., Pflitsch, Maria und Michael Stich): The paper illustrates corporates tax-saving strategies around the tax rate decrease from 35% to 21% in the United States. The findings suggest so-far unconsidered tax income shortfalls of about $30 billion for the US Government.
• Integrated reporting, analyst forecast accuracy, and integrated reporting expertise (Maria und Michael Stich): Integrated reporting is an innovative accounting concept that helps to promote a sustainably acting society. The paper suggests that such favorable effects are only likely when market participants invest in their own holistic reporting competencies.