Research and Interest Areas

• Strategy Implementation


• Top Management Teams


• Digital Transformation


• Sustainability

Courses Taught

• Performance Management


• Master's Seminar "Management and Controlling: Digital Disruption of Industries"

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Firk S.; Gehrke Y.; Richter S.; Wolff M. (2023): "CFO Career Concerns and Strategic Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of M&As" in: European Accounting Review.


• Firk S.; Gehrke Y.; Wolff M. (2023): "Digital Anxiety in the Finance Function: Consequences and Mitigating Factors" in: Journal of Management Accounting Research.


• Firk S.; Gehrke Y.; Hanelt A.; Wolff M. (2022): "Top management team characteristics and digital innovation: Exploring digital knowledge and TMT interfaces" in: Long Range Planning 55(3).

Practice-Oriented Publications

• Meier de West T.; Gehrke Y.; Wolff M. (2023): "Data Analytics in the Context of Strategy Implementation" in: Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation (2).

REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• 2023 – Academy of Management (AOM) Boston (USA) “Do first impressions matter? Initial CEO performance and dismissal” (Burkert S.; Gehrke Y.; Schepker D.; Nyberg A.)


• 2023 – Academy of Management (AOM) Boston (USA) “Trying the Well-Tried: Short-Term CEO Bonus Pay and Corporate Emissions” (Achilles C.; Firk S.; Gehrke Y.; Wolff M.)


• 2023 – Academy of Management (AOM) Boston (USA) “Executive tenure and the use of social media” (Gehrke Y.; Klass J.; Wolff M.)


• 2023 – Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research (ACMAR) Vallendar (DE) “Management control design in a multinational setting: How to bridge national cultural distance” (Gehrke Y.; Firk S.; Hennig J.; Wolff M.)


• 2022 – International Consortium for Values-Based Governance (ICGV) Conference Melbourne (Online) “Management control design in a multinational setting: How to bridge national cultural distance” (Gehrke Y.; Firk S.; Hennig J.; Wolff M.)


• 2022 – Academy of Management (AOM) Seattle (USA) “The dark side of organizational identification: Voluntary CEO turnover during poor firm performance” (Berger L.; Gehrke Y.; Hennig J.; Wolff M.)


• 2022 – Academy of Management (AOM) Seattle (USA) “Curse or Blessing? The Use of Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Digital Era” (Firk S.; Gehrke Y.; Holst M.; Wolff M.)


• 2022 – European Accounting Association (EAA) Bergen (Norway) “The dark side of organizational identification: Voluntary CEO turnover during poor firm performance” (Berger L.; Gehrke Y.; Hennig J.; Wolff M.)


• 2022 – European Accounting Association (EAA) Bergen (Norway) “Curse or Blessing? The Use of Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Digital Era” (Firk S.; Gehrke Y.; Holst M.; Wolff M.)


• 2022 – European Accounting Association (EAA) Bergen (Norway) “Management control design in a multinational setting: How to bridge national cultural distance” (Gehrke Y.; Firk S.; Hennig J.; Wolff M.)


• 2022 – Empirical Research in Management Accounting & Control (ERMAC) Vienna (Austria) “Management control design in a multinational setting: How to bridge national cultural distance” (Gehrke Y.; Firk S.; Hennig J.; Wolff M.)


• 2022 – Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der VHB “The dark side of organizational identification: Voluntary CEO turnover during poor firm performance” (Berger L.; Gehrke Y.; Hennig J.; Wolff M.)


• 2021 – International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) Groningen (Netherlands) “Substance in the nomination committee – how to oppose powerful CEOs in audit committee appointments” (Hennig J.; Gehrke Y.; Kemmerich K.; Wolff M.)


• 2020 - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings 2020 "Digital anxiety in the organization: Consequences and mitigating factors" (Firk S.; Gehrke Y.; Wolff M.)


• 2019 - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings 2019 "How Advising and Monitoring Drive Older CEOs Towards Digital Innovation" (Firk S.; Wolff M.)


• 2018 - European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) Portsmouth (UK) "Antecedents and Outcomes of Operational Alignment in the Context of Academic Institutions" (Gehrke Y.; Schanze P.; Mandrella M.; Trang S.; Kolbe L.)