Education

Business mathematics at the University of Ulm.

PhD and Postgraduate Education

1997 habilitation (German postdoctoral qualification to teach as a full professor) as assistant to Professor Dr. Klaus Hellwig at the University of Ulm.

Professional and Academic Career

In 1997, Professor Speckbacher accepted an offer for a professorship in general business studies at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald. In 1999 he was made a full professor for corporate accounting and controlling at the Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt.

Today

Since April 2000, Professor Dr. Gerhard Speckbacher has been head of the Institute for Strategic Management and Management Control at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His current research mainly deals with performance measurement and performance regulation in large and medium-sized companies as well as strategic management of collaborative relationships between companies. The Institute for Strategic Management and Management Control maintains close cooperative relations with leading international companies and research institutes.

Professor Speckbacher is also head of the “Center of Excellence”, which promotes high-potential students at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, as well as the “Meisterklasse Osteuropa”, an add-on programme to the University of Business and Economics’s regular courses, in which young managers are trained for Central and Eastern European countries.

Further Information and Links

Institute for Strategic Management and Management Control