Past research seminars
2025
Jan Pfister (Turku School of Economics) Replicating selfishness or designing cooperation? Paradigmatic performativity and reflexivity in accounting research
Ulrike Marx (Queen Mary University of London)
Ruidong Zhu (University of Innsbruck)
Veronica Casarin (ESSEC Business School, Paris)
Aline Grahn (Freie Universität Berlin
2024
Euregio Joint Research Seminar in Accounting 2024:
Igor Goncharov, Lancaster University
Holger Daske, University of Manneim
Ron Shalev, University of Toronto
David Crvelin, HEC Paris
Marjo Väisänen, University of Oulu
Albrecht Becker, Translating quality assessment: The case of the Austrian Inpatient Quality Indicators, University of Innsbruck
Frank Schiemann, A Double-Edged Sword: Real Effects of SASB Materiality Classifications, University of Bamberg
Maura Leusder, Valuing care in the accounting-medicine practice mesh of an IVF clinic, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Linda Hintsteiner, A Case Study on Assigning Responsibilities and Accountabilities for Performance Indicators: the “RACI Matrix”, University of Innsbruck
2023
Dennis Fehrenbacher: On the role of information overload in information system success:
Multi-method evidence from decision support systems, University of St. Gallen
Clinton Free: A Narrative Analysis of Motive in Serious Employee Fraud, University of Sydney
Zoltan Nowotny-Farkas: Do firms respond to the mandatory disclosure of target gender quotas? WU Wien
Michael Burkert: Performance spillovers in ambidextrous work settings, University of Fribourg
Ferdinand Kunzl: Agility and management control: the role of management control practices in (re-)producing asymmetries between agile islands and their waterfall environment, University of Innsbruck
Massimiliano Bonacchi: Going dark: Incentives for private firms’ strategic nondisclosure, Free University Bozen-Bolzano
Brendan O‘Dwyer: tba, University of Amsterdam and Manchester Business School
Oana Apostol: An anthropocentric or an organization-centric accountability? The case of a hospital, University of Tampere
Johannes Pauleikhoff: Becoming comfortable with accounting: A field study on steering the sustainability performance, WHU
Nicole Sutton: tba. University of Technology Sydney
2022
Messner Martin: Fashionable practices and occupational identities: Hype and ambiguity as challenges for data scientists
Finia Kuhlmann: Dignifying representations: Constructing an accounting framework for a service for survivors of modern slavery
Jenni Laaksonen (& Matias Laine): In a (serious and) constructive spirit: Translating sustainability disclosure into parallel accounts
Nadine Georgiou: Do Insiders Trade on (Private) Corporate Social Responsibility Information?
Isabella Grabner: Office glamour work vs office housework: Gender differences in participation in and subjective evaluation of non-core job responsibilities
Niels J. Lennonn: Struggles with infrastructure: assembling an internal performance measurement audit trail between global and local
2021
Matthias Thiemann: How strategic agency fosters gradual change: Anchoring the rights and obligations approach in lease accounting and conceptual frameworks, SciencesPo
Martijn van der Steen: Disentangling organizational legitimacy: The relation between internal and external legitimacy in an alternative organizational form, University of Groningen
Patrick Neff, Silvia Jordan, Albrecht Becker: From local concerns to national solutions: The emergence of a national healthcare quality assessment system in Austria, University of Innsbruck
Margit Malmmose: Accounting as a mode of writing: Financial managers and struggles with quality in Danish healthcare, Aarhus University
Leonie Daum & Christoph Pelger: The politics of co-constructing the meaning of a financial reporting standard – A case study of the Transition Resource Group for IFRS 17, Universität Innsbruck
Katharina Weiß: Financial Reporting Standard Setting: The Role of Real Effects, LMU München
Martin Hiebl: Researcher insights on theoretical contribution building in qualitative management accounting research, Universität Siegen
Lukas Goretzki & Jan Pfister: The “productive accountant” as (un-)wanted self – Exploring the role of productivity measures in accountants’ identity work, Stockholm School of Economics & Turku School of Economics
2020
Heinzelmann, Rafael: Struggles of recognition in professionalization of accounting: The case of a hybrid setting in Central-Eastern Europe, University of Adger, Norway
Boomsma, Roel: Producing evidence of impact through evaluation: A field study of an Australian non-governmental devolopment organisation, University of Sydney
2019
Sutton, Nicole: The role of meetings in strategy formulation, University of Technology Sydney
Reilley, Jacob: A Calculative Infrastructure in the Making: The Emergence of a Multi-Layered Complex for Governing Healthcare, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg
Kunzl, Ferdinand: Downsides of continuous forms of budgeting, University of Innsbruck
Meusburger, Pia & Pelger, Christoph: Co-constructing compliance with IFRS – the role of national enforcers, University of Innsbruck
Begkos, Christos: Public value, professional valuing, prices, and privatization in English hospitals, Alliance Manchester Business School
Mansky, Thomas: Konzept der G-IQI Indikatoren und ihr praktischer Einsatz, TU Berlin
Cooper, Christine: Agencification – replacing liberal democracy with neoliberal accountability, University of Edinburgh
Lindermüller, David: Negative media reporting and its effects on performance-based budgeting: a process- and outcome-based investigation, Universität der Bundeswehr München
2018
Becker, Sebastian: The management control practices of earliest stage startup companies and the institutional influences of their ecosystems, HEC Paris
Wouters, Marc: Persuasiveness of incomplete financial calculations and the role of meta-information: A case study, Karlsruhe University of Technology
Sellhorn, Thorsten: How do audit committee chairs shape audit quality?, LMU München
Cäker, Mikael: Dual hierarchical accountability processes in reconciling enabling control and strategic alignment, University of Gothenburg
Oberwallner, Kathrin: Initiation of voluntary change and innovation in external reporting: A case study of the restructuring of an annual report, LMU München
Mennicken, Andrea: Economising Failure, Democratising Failure: Designing a failure regime for NHS hospitals, London School of Economics & Political Science
Becker, Kerstin: Global Standards without the United States? Institutional Work and the U.S. Non-Adoption of IFRS, University of Mannheim
Ram, Ronita: Non-Adoption of the IFRS for SMEs in Australia: Ideological Influences on the Standard Setting Debate, Henley Business School, University of Reading
Gullberg, Cecilia & Weinryb, Noomi: Accounts without borders: On the mobility, stability and combinability of social media accounts, University of Uppsala & Södertörn University
Hoque, Zahirul: Operation of democracy principles through a performance evaluation process for academics: A field study, La Trobe University
Benzer, Matthias: NICE and Society: health resource allocation and social relationships in the UK National Health Service, University of Sheffield
2017
Sponem, Samuel: A Goffmanian analysis of CFOs’ interface strategies, HEC Montréal
Becker, Albrecht: Living in the publish-or-perish culture, University of Innsbruck
Reuter, Marek: Abstract Management Practices and Organizational Identity: An Inquiry into the Transformation of a 'Green' Organizational Self-Conception, University of Innsbruck
Strauss, Erik: Governing day-to-day interactions in interfirm collaborations: The role of informal controls, University of Witten/Herdecke
Groen, Bianca: Developing enabling performance indicators in an organisation with high employee turnover: Longitudinal action research in a call centre, Amsterdam Business School
Wieder, Bernhard: Management Accounting in the Big Data Era – Opportunities or Threats, University of Technology Sydney
Pucci, Richard: Orders of worth in international accounting standard-setting: Critical moments from the global financial crisis, Copenhagen Business School
Botzem, Sebastian: The Privatization of European Accounting Regulation: The Case of EPSAS, University of Bremen
Bénet, Nathalie: A configurational approach of organizational performance: the case of front office employees in the service industry, Université Toulouse
Mehrpouya, Afshin: Seeing like the Market: Transparency and the Accounting Turn in Transnational Market Governance, HEC Paris
2016
Barker, Richard: Moving the Conceptual Framework Forward: Accounting for Uncertainty, Said Business School
Chahed, Yasmin & Vargha, Zsuzsi: The making of a 'disruptive' technology: Transformations in markets and professional service firms, London School of Economics; University of Leicester
Gatzweiler, Marian: Accounting for the Unexpected: A Case Study of Performance Evaluation Practices in a Large Scale Refugee Camp, University of Edinburgh Business School
Herzig, Christian: Balancing profit-sustainability tensions through management control systems, University of Kassel
Kraus, Kalle: Accounting, financial managing and attachments in affective nets: The case of a Swedish football club, Stockholm School of Economics
Murthy, Vijaya: Use of Social capital to enable Intellectual Capital performance: A study of a contract employment set-up, University of Sydney
Pucci, Richard: Reframing loan loss provisioning under IFRS, Copenhagen Business School
Sutton, Nicole: Control system designing: A perceived problem-solving, path dependent process, University of Technology Sydney
2015
Artz, Martin: Incentive recalibration through intra-year target revisions: Evidence from sales managers' targets, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Bläser, Kerstin: The fabrication of calculability - Roles of calculative practices in the financialization of real estate markets, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Burkert, Michael & Zimmermann, Lisa: Management Control System design for different types of ambidextrous firms - a research synthesis study, Université de Fribourg
Erb, Carsten & Pelger, Christoph: Lobbying in conceptual projects - A study of the IASB/FASB's framework revision, University of Innsbruck
Hansen, Allen: , Copenhagen Business School
Lesage, Cédric: Ausiting the Auditors: is Inspection a Wrong Kind of Transparency?, HEC Paris
Palermo, Tommaso: Risk matter’: A study of organisational friction in risk management, London School of Economics
Pelger, Christoph: Practices of standard-setting – An analysis of the IASB and FASB’s process of identifying the objective of financial reporting, University of Innsbruck
Pfister, Jan: Leadership, followership and the emergent identity of the management accountant, Turku School of Economics
Trenca, Mihaela: Dancing with Performabnce Management, University of Southern Denmark
2014
Bay, Charlotta: Makeover Accounting: Investigating the Financial Edutainment of Everyday Life, Stockholm Business School
Downer, John: The Disappearing Catastrophe: How credible is nuclear energy in the wake of fukushima, University of Bristol
Lukka, Kari: Persuasiveness of self-assessment based post-completion auditing reports, Turku School of Economics
Morales, Jeremy: Struggles for recognition: The discourses, identity and "dirty work" of management accountants, ESCP Paris
Pflueger, Dane: Making Quality Calculable: Reassembling the elements of qualculation in American healthcare, 1945-2010, London School of Economics
Sivabalan, Prabhu: Pursuing economic value: A study of incremental strategy-control-strategy effects, UCTS Sydney
Treisch, Corinna: Tax Rate, Tax Base and Point of Tax Payments – A Discrete Choice Analysis of the Perceived Tax Burden, University of Innsbruck
2013
Burkert, Michael: Extensiveness of Adoption of a Code of Good Governance: The Role of Ownership
Concentration and Shareholder Heterogeneity, Université de Fribourg
Hall, Matt: The development of integrative performance measurement systems: a field study of a mental health development project, LSE London
Lennon, Niels Joseph: Assembling the performance of performance measurement systems, Copenhagen Business School
Lim, Francesca: One-self and An-other: Towards an Ethic of Accountability based on Agonistic Self-Other Relations, Victoria University of Wellington
Mack, Simone: Strategic use of relative performance information and conventional accounting information in manager's discussions about organizational performance - a sensemaking perspective, WHU Vallendar
Mack, Simone: Use of accounting information in the practice of performance management meetings:An ethnographic study from a public organization, WHU Vallendar
Moll, Jodie: Pushing back the red-brick wall: The co-construction of an accounting entity and an instrument for aligning investments, Manchester Business School
Samiolo, Rita: Reconstructing the state as a rational actor: saving Venice, world models and the governmentality of failure, London School of Economics
Sjögren, Ebba: They have always been calculative: Professional work, organizational boundaries and accountingization in geriatric care, Stockholm School of Economics
Svärdsten, Fredrik: The search for output, Stockholm University School of Business
2012
Capcun, Vedran: An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Audit and Auditor Characteristics on Auditor Performance, HEC Paris
Hartmann, Berit: Rethinking the boundaries between financial and management accounting, Jönköping International Business School
Heinzelmann, Rafael: Same, same but different: Professional Identities of Management Accountants, University of Innsbruck
Lupu, Ioana: From Me Towards the Other in Me. An Ethical Perspective on Motherhood and Accounting, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
Mack, Simone: Performance management as a collective project between superior and subordinate, WHU Vallendar
Nama, Yesh & Lowe, Alan: Theorizing private equity practices: A social site approach, Aston Business School, Birmingham
Nitzl, Christian & Hirsch, Bernhard: Zur Genese von Vertrauen zwischen Managern und Controllern - Gibt es geschlechtsspezifische Einflüsse?, Universität der Bundeswehr München
Speckbacher, Gerhard: Managerial Control for Collaborative Creativity: The twofold Roles of Intrinsic Motivation and Task-Specific Expertise, WU Wien
2011
Burkert, Michael: Pitfalls in testing contingency fit in management accounting research: Matching theory and empirical methods, HEC Lausanne
Goretzki, Lukas: How Management Accountants Influence the Firm, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management
Humphrey, Christopher: Rethinking impact: The new public management reforms and the contribution of a special issue, Manchester Business School
Johed, Gustav: Behind open doors: auditor's face-work at the annual general meeting, Stockholm University
Ötsch, Silke: Die Berufsgruppe der ArchitektInnen im Kontext von Finanzialisierung, University of Innsbruck, Department of Sociology
Puyou, Francois-Régis: Governing "confused" organizations: Management accounting practices to balance politics and action, Audencia Nantes
Schäffer, Utz: Promoting diversity in Accounting research: An empirical study of the development of the identity, intellectual structure and impact of AOS from 1990-2007, WHU Otto-Beisheim School of Management
Skaerbaek, Peter: The roles of risk management technologies in the public sector, Copenhagen Business School
2010
Becker, Albrecht & Marx, Ulrike: Gender & Controlling: Gender Budgeting Konstruktionen, University of Innsbruck
Chahed, Yasmine: Economic governance at the intersections of law and accounting, London School of Economics
Goretzki, Lukas: The business partner as a socio-technical network: An actor-network perspective on the role of management accountants, WHU Otto-Beisheim School of Management
Jordan, Silvia: Performance Indicators and the Construction of Incompleteness, London School of Economics
Skoog, Matti: Making sense of a paradigmatic change: A study of management control in the Swedish Armed Forces
Vaivio, Juhani: Living in ”Transparency”: Exploring the Interface of Management Accounting and the Operational at Rautaruukki Plc., Helsinki School of Economics
2009
Ellebring, Frederik: Professional- and higher management accounting education. A content analysis, University of Innsbruck
Ezzamel, Mahmoud: Globalism and making Globalisation practicable: A Study of Strategic Performance Measurment Systems, Cardiff Business School
Mahlendorf, Matthias: Determinants of decisioninfluencing use of headquarterdesigned performance measurement systems in subsidiaries – Evidence from China, WHU Otto-Beisheim School of Management
Mennicken, Andrea: Audit and Markets as Linked Ecologies, London School of Economics
Messner, Martin: Problematising imperfect performance measures, HEC Paris
Offenberger, Pia: Between trust and control: Management control systems in non profit organizations, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Olson, Olov: Financial crises and accounting research - a reflection, University of Gothenburg. School of Business, Economics & Law
Panozzo, Fabrizio: The Role of Calculative Practices in Organizing the Urban Identity, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
Schürmann, Christian: Wirtschaftliche Argumente und die Rolle des Accountings in der Silikosediskussion 1925 -1943: Eine Bewertung menschlichen Lebens?, WHU Otto-Beisheim School of Management
Weber, Jürgen: Erfolg von Controllern, WHU Otto-Beisheim School of Management
Wouters, Marc: Experimentation, Knowledge Integration, and Devilish Details in Developing Enabling Accounting Information, University of Twente
2008
Gstraunthaler, Thomas: The notion of strategy in different organizational and cultural contexts - China versus South Africa, Universität Kapstadt
Marx, Ulrike: Der Einfluss der Controllingpraxis auf die (Re-) Produktion von Geschlechterverhältnissen und -hierachien in Organisationen