• Management Control and Corporate Governance
• Value-based (Performance) Management
• Trends in Performance Management

Attendance is highly recommended! In order to successfully pass this course, your absence is limited to 20% of our appointments. This also applies to all online units.

Your final grade will be composed of:

• 20 % Preparation and participation in class (100 points)
• 40 % Mid-Term written exam covering sessions 1-3 (100 points)
• 40% Final oral examination covering full course content and article presentation content (100 points)

The weighted average of your points will be translated into your grade (e.g., 89 points is grade 1).

As part of the oral examination, a short presentation has to be given:

Five articles from the last three years available are to be selected from the journals listed below and short presentations prepared (duration 3 minutes without media support and without documents). Please bring the articles to the oral test. The examiner (Prof. Grabner) selects which article you present at the beginning of the oral examination.
Regarding the choice of articles, the following requirements need to be met: (1) Each article needs to come from a different journal, and (2) at least three articles need to come from English-language journals. Please select your articles from the following journals:

• Academy of Management Journal (AMJ)
• Academy of Management Review (AMR)
• Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS)
• Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ)
• Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR)
• Controlling
• Controlling & Management Review
• Harvard Business Review (HBR)
• Journal of Management Accounting Research (JMAR)
• Management Accounting Research (MAR)
• Management Science
• MIT Sloan Management Review
• Organization Science
• Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr)
• Strategic Management Journal (SMJ)
• The Accounting Review (TAR)
• Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft (ZfB)
• Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (zfbf)