Isabella Grabner
Univ.Prof. Dr.rer.soc.oec. Isabella Grabner- Telephone:
- +43 1 31336 6230
- Email:
- isabella.grabner@wu.ac.at
Affiliation
CV
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since
2018
- Professer of Strategy and Managerial Accounting since 2015
- Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, ROA 2015-2018
- Visiting Professor WU Vienna 2014-2018
- Associate Professor at the Department of Accounting and Information Management, Maastricht University since 2014
- Research Fellow of the Graduate School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University since 2013
- Visiting Professor at University of Luxembourg 2011-2014
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting and Information Management, Maastricht University 2010-2011
- Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Accounting and Information Management, Maastricht University
Researcher Identifier
Awards and Honors
- 2017
- Best Reviewer Award, Journal of Management Accounting Research
- 2016
- Best Early Career Researcher in Management Accounting, AAA Management Accounting Section
- 2014
- Excellent Young Scholar Award, Maastricht University
- 2012
- Outstanding Paper Award, Management Accounting Section Midyear meeting
- 2010
- Erste Bank Award for Central European Research
- Rudolf Sallinger Dissertation Award
Classifications
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No classifications found.
Expertise
- Incentive design, performance management and employee motivation
- Identification, development and retention of (female) talent
- Management Control
- Management of creativity and innovation
Activities
| Position in scientific committee | ||
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| since 2019 | WU Vienna - Senatsmitglied | |
| Membership in scientific association | ||
| since 2019 | AAA Management Accounting Section - President (Elect) | |
| 2017-2018 | Maastricht University - Member of the Advisory Council for Diversity and Inclusivity chaired by the rector | |
| 2017-2019 | AAA Management Accounting Section - Member of the Strategic Advisory Board | |
| 2016-2017 | Maastricht University - Member of the Task Force Diversity and Inclusivity | |
| 2015 | American Accounting Association (AAA) - Member of the Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee | |
| since 2009 | American Accounting Association (AAA) - Member | |
| Member of the editorial board | ||
| since 2016 | Journal of Management Accounting Research | |
| since 2015 | Accounting, Organizations and Society | |
| Organization scientific meeting (Conference etc.) | ||
| since 2018 | Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Symposium - Initiator and Co-Organizer | |
| 2018 | Accounting, Organizations and Society Special Issue on Managing Control as System or Package - Conference Editor | |
| 2016 | European Accounting Association - Member or the organizing committee of the 39th Annual Congress | |
| 2015 | Dutch Accounting Research Conference (DARC) - Initiator and Co-Organizer | |
| Attendance scientific meeting (Conference etc.) | ||
| 2018 | UIC Accounting Conference | |
| 2018 | Global Management Accounting Research Symposium - Paper Presentation | |
| 2018 | European Accounting Association Annual Conference - Paper Presentation | |
| 2018 | Emerging Scholar in Management Accounting Conference - Paper Presentation | |
| 2018 | AAA Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting - Paper Presentation | |
| 2017-2018 | Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Research Symposium - Paper Presentation, Panel Discussion | |
| 2016 | Global Management Accounting Research Symposium - Paper Presentation | |
| 2016 | European Accounting Association Annual Conference - Paper Presentation | |
| 2016 | Emerging Scholar in Management Accounting Conference - Paper Presentation | |
| 2016 | Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting - Paper Presentation | |
| 2016 | American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Conference - Paper Presentation | |
| 2015 | Global Management Accounting Research Symposium - Paper Presentation | |
| 2015-2017 | Dutch Accounting Research Conference (DARC) - Paper Presentation | |
| 2014-2017 | INSEAD Accounting Symposium | |
| 2014 | Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting - Paper Presentation | |
| 2013 | Global Management Accounting Research Symposium - Paper Presentation | |
| 2013 | Accounting, Organizations and Society Conference on "Management Accounting in the Field" - Paper Presentation | |
| 2012 | Global Management Accounting Research Symposium - Paper Presentation | |
| 2012 | Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting - Paper Presentation | |
| 2012-2016 | AAA Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting - Paper Presentation | |
| 2011-2018 | Empirical Research in Management Accounting and Control - Coach | |
| 2011 | Accounting, Organizations and Society Conference on "Debating the Link between Creativity and Control" - Paper Presentation | |
| 2010 | European Accounting Association Annual Conference - Paper Presentation | |
| 2010 | American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Conference - Paper Presentation | |
| 2010 | Academy of Management Annual Meeting - Paper Presentation | |
| 2010 | 7th Conference on New Directionsin Management Accounting - Paper Presentation | |
| 2009 | European Accounting Association Annual Conference - Paper Presentation | |
| 2009 | American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Conference - Paper Presentation | |
Publications
Journal article
| 2022 |
Klein, Aleksandra, Grabner, Isabella, Speckbacher, Gerhard. 2022. Managing the trade-off between autonomy and task interdependence in creative teams: The role of organizational-level cultural control. Accounting, Organizations and Society.
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| 2021 |
Grabner, Isabella, Moers, Frank. 2021. Determinants and consequences of budget reallocations. Contemporary Accounting Research - Recherche Comptable Contemporaine. 38 (3), 1782-1808.
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| Grabner, Isabella, Speckbacher, Gerhard. 2021. Strategy With Purpose. Controlling, Zeitschrift für erfolgsorientierte Unternehmenssteuerung. 33 74-77. | (Details) | ||
| Grabner, Isabella, Martin, Melissa. 2021. The effect of horizontal pay dispersion on the effectiveness of performance-based incentives. Accounting, Organizations and Society. 88 (1) | (Details) | ||
| Brüggen, Alexander, Grabner, Isabella, Sedatole, Karen. 2021. The folly of forecasting: The effects of a disaggregated demand forecasting system on sales forecast error, sales forecast positive bias, and inventory levels. Accounting Review. 96 (2), 127-152. | (Details) | ||
| 2020 | Grabner, Isabella, Künneke, Judith. 2020. Calibration Committees: Warum Fürhungskräfte ihre Mitarbeiter besser im Team bewerten. Personalmanager. | (Details) | |
| Grabner, Isabella, Künneke, Judith, Moers, Frank. 2020. Die (R)evolution bei der Leistungsbeurteilung. Personalmagazin. | (Details) | ||
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Feichter, Christoph, Grabner, Isabella. 2020. Empirische Forschung zu Management Control – Ein Überblick und neue Trends. zfbf Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung - Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) - 72 149-181.
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| Grabner, Isabella, Künneke, Judith, Moers, Frank. 2020. How Calibration Committees Can Mitigate Performance Evaluation Bias: An Analysis of Implicit Incentives. Accounting Review. 95 (6), 213-233. | (Details) | ||
| Chapman, Christopher S., Grabner, Isabella, Moers, Frank. 2020. Introduction to the AOS special issue on management control as system or package. Accounting, Organizations and Society. 86 | (Details) | ||
| Braumann, Evelyn C., Grabner, Isabella, Posch, Arthur. 2020. Tone from the top in risk management: A complementarity perspective on how control systems influence risk awareness. Accounting, Organizations and Society. 84 1-17. | (Details) | ||
| 2018 | Grabner, Isabella, Speckbacher, Gerhard. 2018. Kreativität managen. Controlling & Management Review (früher: Zeitschrift für Controlling und Management ZfCM). 62 (6), 38-41. | (Details) | |
| Grabner, Isabella, Posch, Arthur, Wabnegg, Markus. 2018. Materializing Innovation Capability: A Management Control Perspective. Journal of Management Accounting Research. 30 (2), 163-185. | (Details) | ||
| Feichter, Christoph, Grabner, Isabella, Moers, Frank. 2018. Target Setting in Multi-divisional Firms: State of the Art and Avenues for Future Research. Journal of Management Accounting Research. 30 (3), 29-54. | (Details) | ||
| 2017 | Grabner, Isabella, Künneke, Judith K., Moers, Frank. 2017. FAR Research Project: The loss of talent: a threat for audit quality? MAB Maandblad voor Accountancy en Bedrijfseconomie. 91 (9/10), 268-271. | (Details) | |
| 2016 | Speckbacher, Gerhard, Grabner, Isabella. 2016. The cost of creativity: A control perspective. Accounting, Organizations and Society. 48 (1), 31-42. | (Details) | |
| 2014 | Grabner, Isabella. 2014. Incentive System Design in Creativity-Dependent Firms. Accounting Review. 89 (5), 1729-1750. | (Details) | |
| 2013 | Grabner, Isabella, Moers, Frank. 2013. Management control as a system or a package? Conceptual and empirical issues. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 38, (6-7), 407-419. | (Details) | |
| Grabner, Isabella, Moers, Frank. 2013. Managers' Choices of Performance Measures in Promotion Decisions: An Analysis of Alternative Job Assignments. Journal of Accounting Research, 51, (5), 1187-1220. | (Details) | ||
| 2010 | Grabner, Isabella, Speckbacher, Gerhard. 2010. How to Control Creative Work: The Role of Intrinsic Motivation and Task Programmability in Control System Design. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2010, (1) | (Details) | |
| 2007 | Speckbacher, Gerhard, Grabner, Isabella, Offenberger, Pia. 2007. Grenzen der Marktorientierung von Nonprofit-Organisationen aus ökonomischer Sicht. Die Unternehmung 61 (4): 335-340. | (Details) |
Chapter in edited volume
| 2009 | Feichter, Andreas, Grabner, Isabella, Wentges, Paul. 2009. Gestaltung von Anreizsystemen: Eine Bestandsaufnahme österreichischer Großunternehmen. In: Jahrbuch für Controlling und Rechnungswesen 2009, Hrsg. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Seicht, 485-506. Wien: LexisNexis. | (Details) |
Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium
| 2022 | Grabner, Isabella, Grün, Konstantin, Posch, Arthur, Wabnegg, Markus. 2022. Target Ratcheting and Retention Concerns in Financially Distressed Firms. Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting, Portland/Online, United States/USA, 07.01.-09.01. | (Details) | |
| Grabner, Isabella, Grün, Konstantin, Posch, Arthur, Wabnegg, Markus. 2022. Target Ratcheting and Retention Concerns in Financially Distressed Firms. ACMAR, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany, 02.06-03.06. | (Details) | ||
| Grabner, Isabella, Grün, Konstantin, Posch, Arthur, Wabnegg, Markus. 2022. Target Ratcheting and Retention Concerns in Financially Distressed Firms. ERMAC, WU Wien, Austria, 19.06-21.06. | (Details) | ||
| 2021 | Grabner, Isabella, Seiter, Mischa, Wabnegg, Markus, Wirth, Henning. 2021. How to Mitigate the Loss of Creative Talent: A Management Control Perspective. 18th Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research, Online, Deutschland, 01.03.-05.03. | (Details) | |
| Grabner, Isabella, Seiter, Mischa, Wabnegg, Markus, Wirth, Henning. 2021. How to Mitigate the Loss of Creative Talent: A Multilevel Management Control Perspective. Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting, Online, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 05.01.-09.01. | (Details) | ||
| Grabner, Isabella, Seiter, Mischa, Wabnegg, Markus, Wirth, Henning. 2021. Performance Evaluation for R&D-Employees: The Drawbacks of Nonfinancial Measures and How to Mitigate Them. Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting, Online, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 05.01.-09.01. | (Details) | ||
| Grabner, Isabella, Novotny-Farkas, Zoltán, Sailer, Mariana. 2021. Women's Quota – Support or Obstruction? ERMAC 2021, Wien, Österreich, 21.06.-22.06. | (Details) | ||
| 2020 | Grabner, Isabella, Seiter, Mischa, Wabnegg, Markus, Wirth, Henning. 2020. How to Mitigate the Loss of Creative Talent: A Multilevel Management Control Perspective. 12th Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting, Online, Portugal, 16.12.-18.12. | (Details) | |
| 2018 | Speckbacher, Gerhard, Grabner, Isabella, Klein, Aleksandra. 2018. Managing the Trade-off between Delegation and Task Interdependence in Creative Teams. AOM Annual Meeting, Chicago, United States/USA, 10.08.-14.08. | (Details) | |
| 2017 | Grabner, Isabella, Posch, Arthur, Wabnegg, Markus. 2017. Materializing Innovation Capability: A Management Control Perspective. 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 04.08.-08.08. | (Details) |
Dissertation
| 2009 | Grabner, Isabella. 2009. Creativity and Control: Conflicting Objectives? Dissertation, Institute for Strategic Management and Management Control. | (Details) |
Unpublished lecture
| 2020 | Klein, Aleksandra, Grabner, Isabella, Speckbacher, Gerhard. 2020. Managing the Tradeoff between Delegation and Team Task Interdependence. WHU IMC Research Seminar, Vallendar, 13.02.20 | (Details) | |
| Klein, Aleksandra, Grabner, Isabella, Speckbacher, Gerhard. 2020. Managing the Tradeoff between Delegation and Team Task Interdependence. Vlerick/KU Leuven Research Seminar, Leuven, 04.02.20 | (Details) |