• Incentive Contracts and Performance Measurement

• Task Assignment in Firms
  

• Organizational Structures

• Relevant Costs for Decision-Making

• American Accounting Association (AAA)

• European Accounting Association (EAA), Scientific Committee Annual Congress
  

• Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. (VHB)

• Verein für Socialpolitik

  • Ausschuss für Unternehmenstheorie und -politik

• Schmalenbach Gesellschaft, Arbeitskreis Verrechnungspreise

• German Economic Association of Business Administration (GEABA), Chairwomen since January 1, 2019

• Journal of Accounting Research

• Review of Accounting Studies

• Management Accounting Review

• European Accounting Review

• Journal of Management Accounting Research, Mitglied des Editorial Review Boards

• Scandinavian Journal of Economics

• Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

• Review of Managerial Science

• Production and Operations Management

• Economic Inquiry

• Schmalenbach Business Review

• Journal of Business Economics (Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft)

• Finanzarchiv/Public Finance Analysis

• Die Betriebswirtschaft

• Journal of Management Control

Publications

• "Incentives in optimally sized teams for projects with uncertain returns", Review of Accounting Studies 25(1): 313-341 (2020)
  with Oliver Dürr and Markus Nisch
  https://rdcu.be/b3yIA

• "Why do not all firms engage in tax avoidance", forthcoming in: Rewiew of Managerial Sience
  with Martin Jacob and Kai Sandner

• "Relevante Kosten für Investitionsentscheidungen" [Relevant Costs for Investment Decisions], Controlling & Management Review 5/2017: 58-62 (2017)
  with Stefan J. Reichelstein

• "Delegation of Strategic Decision-Making Authority to Middle Managers",  Journal of Management Control 27: 155-179 (2016)
  with Martin Guggenberger

• "Levelized Product Cost: Concept and Decision Relevance", The Accounting Review 90 (4): 1653-1682 (2015)
  with Stefan J. Reichelstein

• "Decentralized Task Assignment and Centralized Contracting: On the Optimal Allocation of Authority", Journal of Management Accounting Research 26 (1): 33-55 (2014)
  with Steffen Reichmann

•  "Optimal Distribution of Earnings between Partners in Family Firm Contracting", Schmalenbach Business Review 66: 132-163 (2014)
  with Kai Jörg Sandner

• "Contract Design, Organizational Form, and System Size with Externalities in Franchising", Die Betriebswirtschaft 2/14: 133-147 (2014)

• "Anreizsysteme im Franchising" [Incentive Systems in Franchising], Zeitschrift für Controlling und Management, Sonderheft 3/2011: 41-45 (2011)

• "Contractual Relations and Organization Structure in Franchising – Empirical Evidence from Germany", Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft 81 (4): 393-421 (2011)
  with Philipp Sturm

•  „Essays on Incentive Contracts and Organizational Design in Franchising“, Dissertation, University of Mannheim (2011)

Working Papers

• "Delegation of Task Allocation Authority and the Value of Communication when Performance Measures are Imperfect" (2020)
  mit Anja Schöttner
  

• "Optimal Vesting Conditions for Equity-based Compensation" (2018)
  mit Frederike Hinz

• "Incentives and the Delegation of Task Assignment" (2016)
  with Anja Schöttner

• "Benefits of Delegating Decision Authority: An Incentive Contracting Perspective" (2013)
  with Peter-J. Jost

• "Star Wars: Strategic Use of Hidden Word-of-Mouth Dynamics" (2013)
  with Friedrich Droste and Peter-J. Jost

• "Task Assignment and Variable Pay Ratio" (2012)
  with Christian Hofmann

• "Task Assignment and Organizational Forms in Franchising" (2011)
  with Christian Hofmann

International

• Management Accounting Section Research and Case Conference, American Accounting Association (AAA), January 2021

• 13th Workshop on Accounting and Economics in Paris, France, June 2018

• Research Workshop, University of Graz, Austria, June 2018

• 10th Accounting Research Workshop in Basel, Schwitzerland, June 2017

• 40th Annual Congress European Accounting Association (EAA) in Valencia, Spain, May 2017

• 12th Workshop on Accounting and Economics in Tilburg, Niederlande, Juni 2016

• 8th Accounting Research Workshop in Basel, Schweiz, Juni 2013

• 36th Annual Congress European Accounting Association (EAA) in Paris, Frankreich, Mai 2013

• Management Accounting Section Research and Case Conference American Accounting Association (AAA) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Januar 2011

• 33rd Annual Congress European Accounting Association (EAA) in Istanbul, Türkei, Mai 2010

• Stanford University, Research Workshop Graduate School of Business, in Stanford, Kalifornien, USA, Januar 2010

National

• Workshop on Organizations, Incentives, and Performance Pay, Trier University, November 2020

• XVIII. Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung (GEABA) in Hohenheim, September 2017

• XVII. Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung (GEABA) in Basel, Switzerland, September 2016

• Jahrestagung des Ausschusses für Unternehmenstheorie und -politik im Verein für Socialpolitik in Bonn, April 2016

• XV. Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung (GEABA) in Regensburg, September 2014

• XIV. Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung (GEABA) in Magdeburg, September 2013

• Universität Tübingen, Ökonomischer Workshop, February 2013

• RWTH Aachen, Vortrag im Rahmen der Vorlesung „Organizational Architecture and Technology“ von Prof. Dr. Christine Harbring, January 2013

• 15. Personalökonomisches Kolloquium in Paderborn, March 2012

• Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research (ACMAR) in Vallendar, March 2012

• XII. Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung (GEABA) in Zürich, Switzerland, September 2011

• XI. Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung (GEABA) in Frankfurt, October 2010

• 72. Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB) in Bremen, May 2010

• 13. Personalökonomisches Kolloquium in Trier, March 2010

• X. Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung (GEABA) in Vallendar, September 2009