1984 - 1991: Studied Mathematics and Management at Ulm University (Dipl.-Wirtschaftsmathematiker)
1987 - 1988: Studied Mathematics at Syracuse University, New York (Master of Science)
1991 - 1994: Doctoral studies, University of St. Gallen (HSG), award of a doctoral degree (Dr. oec.) (Amicitia Prize for the best doctoral thesis in First choice in the academic year 1994 at the University of St. Gallen (HSG); SVOR/ASRO Prize 1997 for the best Swiss Operations Research dissertation of the years 1994-1996)
1996 - 2002: Habilitation (postdoctoral teaching qualification) in the subject of Business Management/Administration, Ulm University
Employment
1991 - 1994: Scientific assistant at the Institute for Corporate Research at the University of St. Gallen
1994 - 1995: Employee at Westdeutsche Landesbank, Düsseldorf, Department of Mathematics Consulting / New Technologies
1996 - 2001: Scientific Assistant in the Department of Business Administration, Ulm University
2001 - 2002: Substitute for the Chair of General Business Administration and Controlling at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
2002 - 2003: Lecturer in the Department of Business Administration, Ulm University
2003 - 2008: Professor of "Corporate Management, Controlling and Consulting" at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Since 2008: Head of the Institute of Management Accounting and Control, Faculty of Mathematics and Economics, Ulm University
2011 - 2013: Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Economics
Monographs
Corporate Governance and the Stakeholder Approach: Implications for Corporate Financial Economics. Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden, 2002.
Location problems with consideration of capacity constraints: Modelling and solution methods. Doctoral thesis, PhD thesis No. 1620 of the University of St. Gallen, Difo-Druck, Bamberg, 1994.
Selected publications in peer-reviewed journals
The Role of Organisational Social Capital in the Design of Management Control Systems. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 30(2):187-205 (2018) (together with A. Ströbele), https://doi.org/10.2308/jmar-52071.
The Impact of Family Control on the Use of Performance Measures in Strategic Target Setting and Incentive Compensation: A Research Grade. Management Accounting Research 23(1): 34-46 (2012) (together with G. Speckbacher).
A Grade on Stakeholder Theory and Risk: Implications for Corporate Cash Holdings and Dividend Policy. Frontiers in Finance and Economics, 6(1): 51-72 (2009) (together with G. Speckbacher).
Management of non-profit organisations: Economic considerations and implications for higher education management.Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis, 60(1):43-64 (2008) (together with G. Speckbacher and J. Bischof).
Management of medium-sized enterprises: Size effects and the influence of ownership and management structure. Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 76(6): 589-614 (2006) (together with M. Schachner and G. Speckbacher).
A stakeholder-orientated analysis of the consideration of risk within the shareholder value concept. Die Betriebswirtschaft, 60(2):199-209 (2000).
Utility Maximisation under Capital Growth Constraints. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 33(1):1-12 (2000) (together with K. Hellwig and G. Speckbacher).
Employee participation and modern theory of the firm - Some comments on the essay by Schmid and Seger. Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 69(7): 745-763 (1999) (together with B. Frick and G. Speckbacher).
Weighted Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition for Linear Mixed-Integer Programming. International Transactions in Operational Research, 4(2):151-162 (1997).
Accelerating Benders' Decomposition for the Capacitated Facility Location Problem. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 44(2):267-290 (1996).
Research interests
Management Control Systems
Value-orientated controlling
Performance Management
Family Businesses
Corporate Governance
Memberships
Association of university teachers of business administration (Accounting Commission)