The notion of 'Controlling', as it is commonly used in German-speaking countries, may be regarded as an equivalent term for management accounting. At the same time, there have been considerable efforts to establish Controlling as a discipline on its own, rather than to regard it simply as the...

type="main" <p>Managing distant subsidiaries is a challenge for headquarters of multinational companies. Performance measurement systems (PMS) can assist in this task. Taking a business network perspective, we study the moderating effect of the interactive use of PMS implemented by headquarters at...</p>

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008/09, finance research has been criticized for an ineffective allocation of research efforts and a narrowing research focus. We address this discussion via a quantitative analysis of 4,064 articles published in the top four finance journals between 1988...

Little is known about management accounting research in Germany although the academic tradition of Controlling in Europe’s largest economy might be of interest for the international community. Therefore, the author characterizes the most important elements of Controlling research undertaken in...

Der vorliegende Beitrag ergänzt und erklärt die Befunde von Speckbacher et al. (2003) und Schachner et al. (2006), die beide eine geringe Verbreitung der Balanced Scorecard als strategisches Managementsystem im deutschen Sprachraum dokumentieren. Mithilfe von sechs Fallstudien in...

Research on successful strategies for monitoring shareholdings in management holdings has not advanced beyond the rudimentary stages until now. In this article, the authors develop strategies to maximize the success of monitoring and deduce the relevant design parameters. Structural equation...

Despite the high relevance of budgeting for organizational practice, our knowledge on the optimal design of this process is limited. In particular, empirical evidence on context-specific differences in relevant cause-and-effect relationships is rare. In a first step, this paper therefore...