Gu's Accounting Research Laboratory

■Profile (HP)

・Institute of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba

・ MBA in International Business

・ Assistant Professor

・Junjian Gu, Ph.D.

■What's New

・Accepted Research Grant  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), "Workforce Information Disclosure: Socially Related Determinants and Real Economic Consequences" Apr 2025 - Mar 2028. I sincerely appreciate the great support from JSPS, the reviewers, and staff at the Academic Service Office for the Business Sciences.

・Member of the Editorial Board for:  Accounting Research Letters (2025-)

・Conference committee member for: JAIAS (International Communication Committee, 2024-2027) 

・Conference committee member for: JAA (International Communication Committee, 2024-2027) 

・ Research Support  Our research application in titled "Shortage of Certified Public Accountants and Audit Quality (in Japanese)" has been selected from the "Call for Research: Access to Certified Public Accountants," which was publicly solicited in March 2024 by Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA). We sincerely appreciate the great support from JICPA, project reviewers and participants.

・ Guest Editor of Special Issue "Empirical Research on Non-financial Disclosure Practices" for Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1991-8074) (Scopus Journal: CiteScore of 4.5 for 2023, ranked Q1 (Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)); ABDC-B)

・ Obtained Sabbatical leave  September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. (Host institution during sabbatical leave: UNSW Business School (School of Accounting, Auditing & Taxation) )

・ Accepted Manuscript Chen, C., Gu, J., and Lobo, G.J. "Power Needs Knowledge: CEO Knowledge Background and Goodwill Impairment," Accounting Forum, Forthcoming, (SSCI 2022 IF 3.1 Q2; ABDC-B)

・ Accepted Manuscript Gu, J., "Do Investors Value Job Information? Evidence from Employee Welfare Policy," Applied Economics, Forthcoming, (SSCI 2022 IF 2.2 Q2; ABDC-A) 

・ Congratulations Tsukuba Team (Taka, Limin, and Ken) won the University Ethics Challenge (Japan Competition) in 2023. 

・ Achieved tenure at University of Tsukuba

・ Adjunct Lecturer: Advanced Topics in Accounting (Graduate level); Module 5 Financial Analysis (Graduate level) @ Rikkyo University (only for Fall Term 2022).

・ Congratulations Tsukuba Team (Tomoko, Amit, and Jia) won the University Ethics Challenge (Japan Competition) in 2022. 

・ Accepted Manuscript Sakawa, H., Watanabel, N. and Gu, J., "Internationalization and the reliance of Analyst Forecasts in Stakeholder-oriented corporate governance: Evidence from Japanese MNEs" has been accepted for publication in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (SSCI 2020 IF 2.514 Q2; ABDC-A)

・ Award: Joint-Best Presentation Award (Pitcher: J. Gu. Title: Foreign shareholders and corporate innovation: Evidence from Japanese Keiretsu. Coauthor with H. Sakawa and N. Watanabel) @ 2022 Japan Pitching Research Competition (JPRC). 

・ Accepted Research Grant Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, "Empirical Research on New Employee Policies and Firm Performance," Apr 2022 - Mar 2025.

・ Accepted Manuscript Gu, J., "Do at home as Romans do? CEO overseas experience and financial misconduct risk of emerging market firms" has been accepted for publication in Research in International Business and Finance (SSCI 2020 IF 4.091 Q1)✰

・Conference committee member for: JAIAS (International Communication Committee, 2022-2024) 

■MBA-IB Program @ University of Tsukuba’ s Tokyo campus (HP)

■筑波大学エクステンションプログラム

・ CFAレベル1試験準備コース (HP)

・ CFAレベル2試験準備コース (HP)