Chair of Management and Control









Conference presentations


On this website, we document all conference paper presentations by members of our chair.






  • 2024 - Academy of Management (AOM), Chicago (USA)




    • "Take a stance, take the lead? CEO career concerns and social media use" (Gehrke, Y.; Klass, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Beyond the Horizon: Carbon Targets and Corporate Emission Reduction" (Gehrke, Y.; Koerhuis, G.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2024 - 13th EIASM Workshop on Top Management Teams and Business Strategy Research, Passau (Germany)




    • "C-Suite Dynamics: CEO Characteristics and COO Returns" (Margerie, J.; Lang, M.; Gehrke, Y.; Wolff, M.)







  • 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.)

    • "Executive tenure and the use of social media" (Gehrke, Y.; Klass, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "You Are the One: Nomination Committees and the Market Reaction to CEO Succession" (Hennig, J.; Lang, M.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Do first impressions matter? Initial CEO performance and dismissal" (Burkert, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Schepker, D.; Nyberg, A.)







  • 2023 - Jahrestagung der Academy of Management (AoM), Boston (USA)




    • "No Light without Shadow? Implications of Divestitures from the Employee Perspective" (Loth, N.)







  • 2023 - Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research (ACMAR), Vallendar (Germany)




    • "Management control design in a multinational setting: How to bridge national cultural distance" (Gehrke, Y.; Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2023 - Jahrestagung der European Accounting Association (EAA)




    • "Is it Me or is it You? CEO-Director Forename Commonality, Implicit Egotism, and CEO Compensation" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.)







  • 2022 - Jahrestagung der Academy of Management (AOM), Seattle (USA)




    • "How New CEOs Use Strategic Topic Setting to Manage Capital Market Reactions to their Appointments" (Hennig, J. C., Lang, M., Wolff, M., & Harrison, J.)

    • "Better Safe than Sorry – CEO Integrity and the M&A Decision Process" (Bauer, J.C.; Hennig, J.)

    • "Is there a dark side to divestitures? Employee commitment after corporate divestitures" (Loth, N.)

    • "The dark side of organizational identification: Voluntary CEO turnover during poor firm performance" (Berger, L.; Gehrke, Y.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Curse or Blessing? The Use of Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Digital Era" (Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Holst, M.; Wolff, M.)

    • "CEOs in Times of Disruption – Does CEO Outsiderness Help For Incumbent Firms’ Digital Transformation?" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meier, 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 - 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.)







  • 2022




    • Bauer, J.C.; Wolff, M. The Deinstitutionalization of Business Support Functions through Artificial Intelligence. Information 2022, 13, 352.







  • 2022




    • Stebe, M.; Muntermann, M.; Wolff, M.; Hullmann, R.; Loth, N. Using the Herd: How Firms Can Leverage Peer Effects to Increase Share Plan Participation. Compensation & Benefits Review 2022, 54(3):112-120.







  • 2021 - Academy of Management (AOM), virtual




    • "Too Good to Be True: Impression Management and Integrity's Self-Governing Mechanism in M&As" (Bauer, J.C.; Hennig, J.)







  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der Strategic Management Society (SMS)




    • "New CEOs Strategic Topic Setting – The Use of Impression Management in Capital Market Communication" (Hennig, J.; Lang, M.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der European Accounting Association (EAA)




    • "Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Groningen (Netherlands)




    • "Finding a Welcomed Leader: Nomination Committees and the Market Reaction to CEO Succession" (Kemmerich, K.; Lang, M.)

    • “Substance in the nomination committee – how to oppose powerful CEOs in audit committee appointments” (Hennig, J.; Gehrke, Y.; Kemmerich, K.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2021 - EIASM PhD Workshop on TMT and Business Strategy Research




    • "CEOs in Times of Disruption – Does CEO Outsiderness Help For Incumbent Firms’ Digital Transformation?" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meier, J.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2021 - Research Seminar am Center for Corporate Governance, Copenhagen Business School




    • "Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2021 - Research Seminar am Department of Accounting der Groningen University




    • "Walking a Tightrope - CEO Digital Emphasis and Dismissal" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Meyer, H.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2021 - Jahrestagung der American Accounting Association (AAA), virtual




    • "Integrity's Self-Governing Mechanism in the Voluntary Disclosure around Mergers and Acquisitions" (Bauer, J.C.; Hennig, J.)







  • 2020 - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, virtual




    • "How to boost participation in employee ownership plans - A contextual analysis of profit sharing" (Hullmann, R.; Hennig, J.)

    • "Digital anxiety in the organization: Consequences and mitigating factors" (Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2020 - Kelso Workshop, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University (USA)




    • "Boundaries to workplace peer influences in employee stock purchase plans" (Gregoric, A.; Hennig, J.; Hullmann, R.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2020 - Jahrestagung für Management Accounting Research (ACMAR), Vallendar (Germany)




    • "Does the market value the strategic career background of a CFO?" (Firk, S.; Spogat, D.; Verbeeten, F.; Wolff, M.)







  • 2019 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Boston (USA)




    • "Peer effects in employees' decisions not to participate in beneficial ESOPs - a multilevel analysis" (Hennig, J.; Hullmann, R.; Wolff, M.)

    • "How Advising and Monitoring Drive Older CEOs Towards Digital Innovation" (Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.)

    • "The Dark Side of Clawbacks: Clawback Provisions and a Firm’s Strategic Repertoire" (Firk, S.; Holst, M.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Deinstitutionalization of a Management Practice - The Abandonment of Value-based Management" (Berger, L.)

    • "In search of pearls: How strategic backgrounds help CFOs to achieve managerial labor market outcomes" (Spogat, D.)






  • 2019 - Industry and Labor Economics Workshop, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University (Japan)




    • "Boundaries of peer effects: Culture, peers and employee ownership" (Hennig, J.; Hullmann, R.; Gregoric, A.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2019 - Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Rostock (Germany)




    • "Does the market value strategic career backgrounds of CFOs?" (Firk, S.; Spogat, D.; Verbeeten, F.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2019 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Paphos (Cyprus)




    • "The analyst and investor environment as a governance mechanism and firms’ decision to hold M&A-related conference calls" (Hennig, J.)






  • 2019 - Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA), San Francisco (USA)




    • "Investor reactions to abnormal tone and the role of manager-specific linguistic context factors" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2019 - ERMAC 2019 Summer School and Research Conference, Vienna (Austria)




    • "Just wait and see? How to manage impressions around M&As" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.)






  • 2018 - 11th Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting, Brussels (Belgium)




    • "Does the market value strategic backgrounds of CFOs" (Firk, S.; Spogat, D.; Verbeeten, F.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2018 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Chicago (USA)




    • "CFO career prospect and M&A returns - An analysis of the S&P 500" (Firk, S.; Richter, S.)

    • "Market reactions to appointments of CFOs with strategic backgrounds" (Firk, S.; Spogat, D.; Verbeeten, F.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Let’s talk face to face - Antecedents of successful private shareholder activism in a global world" (Coskun, H.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.; Jacobey, L.)

    • "The effect of stock-based incentives on individual manager performance" (Ahrens, C.)

    • "Investors' misinterpretation of managers' tone - An analysis of manager-specific context factors" (Hennig, J.)






  • 2018 - Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA), Washington (USA)




    • "The interplay of CFOs and CEOs with regard to investment efficiency - A regulatory perspective" (Detzen, N.; Firk, S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Market reactions to appointments of CFOs with strategic backgrounds" (Firk, S.; Spogat, D.; Verbeeten, F.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2018 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Milan (Italy)




    • "What drives sophisticated environmental performance measurement systems? An empirical investigation of antecedents and its outcomes" (Coskun, H.; Firk, S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Market reactions to appointments of CFOs with strategic backgrounds" (Firk, S.; Spogat, D.; Verbeeten, F.; Wolff, M.)

    • "CFO career prospect and M&A returns - An analysis of the S&P 500" (Firk, S.; Richter, S.)

    • "The effect of stock-based incentives on individual manager performance" (Ahrens, C.)

    • "Investor reactions to managers' use of abnormal tone and the role of linguistic manager-specific context factors" (Hennig, J.)

    • "Antecedents of the abandonment of a management accounting system - The case of value-based management" (Berger, L.)

    • "The interplay of CFOs and CEOs with regard to investment efficiency - A regulatory perspective" (Detzen, N.; Firk, S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2018 - Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Magdeburg (Germany)




    • "Does value-based management support managerial decision-making? - An analysis of divestiture decisions" (Firk, S.; Richter, S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Balanced Information composition in conference calls and the cost of capital" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2018 - Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research (ACMAR), Vallendar (Germany)




    • "CFO career prospect and M&A returns - An analysis of the S&P 500" (Firk, S.; Richter, S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "The interplay of CFOs and CEOs with regard to investment efficiency - A regulatory perspective" (Detzen, N.; Firk, S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2017 - Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA), San Diego (USA)




    • "Information provision in conference calls and the cost of capital: An analyst-based perspective" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Value-based management's promise to support managerial decision making - An analysis of divestiture decisions" (Firk, S.; Richter, S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2017 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Atlanta (USA)




    • "The impact of stock-based incentives on employee behavior and the moderating effect of institutions" (Ahrens, C.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "What drives CSR Sophistication? The Role of Intra- and Extra-Organizational Pressure" (Coskun, H.; Firk, S.)

    • "Value-based management's promise to support managerial decision making - An analysis of divestiture decisions" (Firk, S.; Richter, S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Standing out of the crowd - A contingency model of strategy uniqueness and institutional investors" (Maybuechen, F.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2017 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB), Dubai (UAE)




    • "Expatriates as Influencers in Global Work Arrangements: Their Impact on Foreign Subsidiary Employees’ ESOP Participation" (Ahrens, C.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2017 - ERMAC 2017 Summer School, Vienna (Austria)




    • "Value-based management's promise to support managerial decision making - An analysis of divestiture decisions" (Firk, S.; Richter, S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2017 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Valencia (Spain)




    • "Stock-based incentives for employees - The impact on employee turnover and the moderating effect of institutions" (Ahrens, C.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Information provision in conference calls and the cost of capital: An analyst-based perspective" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Standing out of the crowd - A contingency model of strategy uniqueness and institutional investors" (Maybuechen, F.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Value-based management's promise to support managerial decision making - An analysis of divestiture decisions" (Firk, S.; Richter, S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2017 - Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research (ACMAR), Vallendar (Germany)




    • "Value-based management's promise to support managerial decision making - An analysis of divestiture decisions" (Firk, S.; Richter, S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2016 - Annual Meeting of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), Vienna (Austria)




    • "The influence of expatriates on employees' ESOP participation and the moderating effect of distance" (Ahrens, C.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2016 - Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), Berlin (Germany)




    • "Nice to meet you - the Role of Relational Embeddedness in Successful Private Shareholder Activism" (Jacobey, L.)

    • "Corporate Dinosaurs: The CEO Age and Strategic Uniqueness Relationship - A Conformity and Persuasion Model" (Maybuechen, F.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2016 - Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association (AAA), New York (USA)




    • "Think before you speak - The effect of conference call style on the cost of equity capital" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2016 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Anaheim (USA)




    • "Think before you speak - The effect of conference call style on the cost of equity capital" (Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "The influence of expatriates on employees' ESOP participation and the moderating effect of distance" (Ahrens, C.; Oehmichen, J.)

    • "Value-Based Management and M&A Decisions: A Multi-Level Contingency Model" (Firk, S.; Maybuechen, F.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Nice to meet you - the Role of Relational Embeddedness in Successful Private Shareholder Activism" (Jacobey, L.)






  • 2016 - Doctoral Symposium of the Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)




    • "Transforming promise into reality - Antecedents and performance implications of CFO commitment to Value-based Management" (Firk, S.; Schmidt, T.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2016 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Maastricht (Netherlands)




    • "Transforming promise into reality? Antecedents and performance implications of CFO commitment to Value-based Management" (Firk, S.; Schmidt, T.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2016 - Annual Meeting of the Scientific Commission for International Management of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Fribourg (Switzerland)




    • "The influence of expatriates on employees' ESOP participation and the moderating effect of distance" (Ahrens, C.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2015 - Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), Denver (USA)




    • "Multiple Recipes for Success: A Configurational Examination of Business Portfolio Restructuring" (Hildebrandt, P.; Oehmichen, J.; Pidun, U.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Who can Stand up for Good Governance? Evidence from Board Committees" (Jacobey, L.; Wolff, M.; Yoshikawa, T.)






  • 2015 - Annual Meeting of the International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Copenhagen (Denmark)




    • "Time horizons of incentives in different institutional settings - an empirical analysis of M&A deals of US and European firms" (Oehmichen, J.; Sauset, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Fixing the loopholes? Performance Implications of the Bindingness of CEO Compensation Arrangements" (Jacobey, L.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2015 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Vancouver (Canada)




    • "Cling together swing together: Employee ownership and its influence on employee commitment and firm performance in a multinational environment" (Oehmichen, J.; Zschoche, U.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Who can Stand up for Good Governance? Evidence from Board Committees" (Jacobey, L.; Wolff, M.; Yoshikawa, T.)

    • "Value-based Management Sophistication in Europe - Organizational fit under institutional differences" (Firk, S.; Schmidt, T.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2015 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB), Bengaluru (India)




    • "Follow the herd: how organizational level legitimacy can give a helping hand to bridge formal institutional voids - The case of employee stock ownership plans in MNEs" (Oehmichen, J.; Zschoche, U.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2015 - Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Vienna (Austria)




    • "Follow the herd: how organizational level legitimacy can give a helping hand to bridge formal institutional voids - The case of employee stock ownership plans in MNEs" (Oehmichen, J.; Zschoche, U.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Who can Stand up for Good Governance? Evidence from Board Committees" (Jacobey, L.; Wolff, M.; Yoshikawa, T.)

    • "When does Value-Based Management pay off? M&A decisions in the light of internal and external agency conflicts" (Firk, S.; Maybuechen, F.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2015 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Glasgow (Scotland)




    • "Value-based Management Sophistication in Europe - Organizational fit under institutional differences" (Firk, S.; Schmidt, T.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2015 - Annual Meeting of the Scientific Commission for International Management of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Fribourg (Switzerland)




    • "Follow the herd: how organizational level legitimacy can give a helping hand to bridge formal institutional voids - The case of employee stock ownership plans in MNEs" (Oehmichen, J.; Zschoche, U.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2014 - Annual Conference of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), Madrid (Spain)




    • "Business portfolio restructuring from an industry environment perspective: The role of critical resources" (Hildebrandt, P.; Oehmichen, J.; Pidun, U.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2014 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Philadelphia (USA)




    • "Performance effects of value-based management systems under institutional complexity" (Firk, S.; Schrapp, S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Time Horizons in Different Institutional Settings - Analysis of M&A Deals of US and European Firms" (Sauset, J.)

    • "Fixing the Loopholes - How Monitoring Quality Influences Degrees of Freedom in Compensation Contracts" (Jacobey, L.)

    • "When Elites Forget Their Duties: The Double-Edged Sword of Star Directors on Boards" (Braun, D.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2014 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB), Vancouver (Canada)




    • "Time horizons of incentives in different institutional settings - an empirical analysis of M&A deals of US and European firms" (Oehmichen, J.; Sauset, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2014 - Special Conference of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), Copenhagen (Denmark)




    • "Crisis of Leadership or Leadership Through the Crisis - CEO Performance During the Financial Crisis" (Braun, D.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2014 - Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Leipzig (Germany)




    • "Fixing the loopholes - The influence of monitoring quality on the degrees of freedom in CEO compensation contracts" (Jacobey, L.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Performance effects of value-based management systems under institutional complexity" (Firk, S.; Schrapp, S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Crisis of Leadership or Leadership Through the Crisis - CEO Performance During the Financial Crisis" (Braun, D.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2014 - Annual Meeting of the European Management Association (EURAM), Valencia (Spain)




    • "Fixing the Loopholes - How Monitoring Quality Influences Degrees of Freedom in CEO Compensation Contracts" (Jacobey, L.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Drivers of value creation - The role of value-based management and underlying institutions" (Firk, S.; Schrapp, S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Leadership through the crisis - CEO performance during economic turmoil" (Braun, D.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2013 - Annual Meeting of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), Bremen (Germany)




    • "Employee stock-ownership plans in MNEs - A headquarter practice acceptance model to explain subsidiary behavior during the enrollment period" (Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.; Zschoche, U.)

    • "External and internal embeddedness of emerging market subsidiaries - a contingency model to explain their performance effect in situations of complexity and organizational change" (Oehmichen, J.; Puck, J.)






  • 2013 - Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), Atlanta (USA)




    • "Corporate Portfolio Management in strategic management processes: A multi-country investigation of TMT and board influence" (Oehmichen, J.; Pidun, U.; Wolff, M.)

    • "CEO dismissal and board capital - An institutional lens on board resources focus and autonomy" (McGuire, J.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2013 - Annual Meeting of the Scientific Commission for Human Resources of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Hamburg (Germany)




    • "The role of managerial inertia: A conceptual investigation of dynamic capability investments through an agency theoretical lens" (Oehmichen, J.; Rogbeer, S.)






  • 2013 - Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association (EFA), Cambridge (UK)




    • "CEO Contract Design Regulation and Risk-Taking - Evidence from Europe" (Baur, P.; Sauset, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2013 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Orlando (USA)




    • "Catalyzing strategic change: the effect of board capital and institutional differences" (Oehmichen, J.; Schrapp, S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "CEO Contract Design Regulation and Risk-Taking - Evidence from Europe" (Baur, P.; Sauset, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2013 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB), Istanbul (Turkey)




    • "Multiple directorships - is it the same old boys network in every country? A multi-country panel analysis of European and US-American companies" (Braun, D.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Catalyzing strategic change: the effect of board capital and institutional differences" (Oehmichen, J.; Schrapp, S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2013 - Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Würzburg (Germany)




    • "Multiple directorships - is it the same old boys network in every country? A multi-country panel analysis of European and US-American companies" (Braun, D.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Former executive board members on supervisory boards: resource channel or ineffective monitoring - an empirical contingency perspective of German companies" (Oehmichen, J.; Schult, A.; Wolff, M.)

    • "It's all kippers and curtains - How non-delegating CEOs can build and destroy the illusion of their irreplaceability" (Oehmichen, J.; Schult, A.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Going beyond human capital explanations for the gender pay gap in top management teams" (Oehmichen, J.; Sarry, M.; Wolff, M.)

    • "CEO contract design regulation and risk-taking - Evidence from Europe" (Baur, P.; Sauset, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2013 - Annual Meeting of the Scientific Commission for Organization of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Jena (Germany)




    • "Multiple directorships - is it the same old boys network in every country? A multi-country panel analysis of European and US-American companies" (Braun, D.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Former executive board members on supervisory boards: resource channel or ineffective monitoring - an empirical contingency perspective of German companies" (Oehmichen, J.; Schult, A.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2012 - International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Orlando (USA)




    • "Strategic Alignment of IT and Functional Responsibilities in Top Management Teams: An Empirical Performance Study" (Schult, A.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2012 - Annual Meeting of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), Brighton (UK)




    • "Pay-for-performance in Europe and the United States? A contingency perspective on integrating substitutionary and complementary governance mechanisms" (Hüttenbrink, A.; Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Catalyzing strategic change: the effect of board capital and institutional differences" (Oehmichen, J.; Schrapp, S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2012 - Workshop on Corporate Governance and Investment, Cardiff (UK)




    • "Multiple directorships - is it the same old boys network in every country? A multi-country panel analysis of European and US-American companies" (Braun, D.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2012 - Conference on National Governance Bundles, Cambridge (UK)




    • "Multiple directorships - is it the same old boys network in every country? A multi-country panel analysis of European and US-American companies" (Braun, D.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2012 - Annual Meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Chapter of the Academy of International Business (AIB), Melbourne (Australia)




    • "Board Capital, Board Structure and Organizational Learning: A Cross-National Analysis" (Heyden, M.; Oehmichen, J.)






  • 2012 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AoM), Boston (USA)




    • "Board Capital, Board Structure and Organizational Learning: A Cross-National Analysis" (Heyden, M.; Oehmichen, J.)

    • "Going beyond human capital explanations for the gender pay gap in top management teams" (Oehmichen, J.; Sarry, M.; Wolff, M.)

    • "R&D Curtailment during the Crisis - The Role of Stock-Based Incentives and Institutional Differences" (Rapp, M.S.; Schrapp, S.)






  • 2012 - Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business (AIB), Washington (USA)




    • "Board Capital, Board Structure and Organizational Learning: A Cross-National Analysis" (Heyden, M.; Oehmichen, J.)

    • "The disintegration of the German directors network - an empirical discussion of the impact of domestic and international informal institutions on the convergence of corporate governance systems" (Böhler, D.; Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2012 - Annual Meeting of the European Management Association (EURAM), Rotterdam (Netherlands)




    • "Board Capital, Board Structure and Organizational Learning: A Cross-National Analysis" (Heyden, M.; Oehmichen, J.)






  • 2012 - China International Conference in Finance, Chongqing (China)




    • "Hard or Soft Regulation of Corporate Governance?" (Schmid, T.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2012 - European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Barcelona (Spain)




    • "Hard or Soft Regulation of Corporate Governance?" (Schmid, T.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2012 - Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Bolzano (Italy)




    • "Does Strategic Consistency Matter in M&A Series? - Evidence from Europe" (Fehre, K.; Kronenwett, D.; Lindstädt, H.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Hard or Soft Regulation of Corporate Governance?" (Schmid, T.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Does institutional environment matter in executive compensation – A multinational analysis" (Hüttenbrink, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2012 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Ljubljana (Slovenia)




    • "Hard or Soft Regulation of Corporate Governance?" (Schmid, T.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Does institutional environment matter in executive compensation? A multinational analysis" (Hüttenbrink, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2012 - Annual Meeting of the Scientific Commission for Organization of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Berlin (Germany)




    • "Busy boards in a two-tier system: old-boys-network or efficient monitoring technology?" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "The Impact of Multiple Directorships on Firm Performance - Is There a Positive Network Effect of Busy Directors?" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "R&D spending during the financial crisis - the impact of country-specific mechanisms and financial incentives" (Rapp, M.S.; Schrapp, S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2011 - Annual Meeting of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), Bucharest (Romania)




    • "Diversity in the qualification of supervisory board members - An investigation of resource supply demand and demand transparency" (Gregoric, A.; Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.) - Winner of the Best Poster Award

    • "R&D spending during the financial crisis - the impact of country-specific mechanisms and financial incentives" (Schrapp, S.) - Winner of the Best Doctoral Thesis Proposal Award

    • "The disintegration of the German directors network - an empirical discussion of the impact of domestic and international informal institutions on the convergence of corporate governance systems" (Böhler, D.; Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2011 - Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), Miami (USA)




    • "Does institutional environment matter in executive compensation - a multinational analysis" (Hüttenbrink, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Does Strategic Consistency Matter in M&A Series? - Evidence from Europe" (Fehre, K.; Kronenwett, D.; Lindstädt, H.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2011 - International conference on Executive Compensation after the Financial Crisis, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen (Denmark)




    • "Does institutional environment matter in executive compensation - a multinational analysis" (Hüttenbrink, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2011 - 12th Workshop on Corporate Governance and Investment, HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Leipzig (Germany)




    • "Sharing Voice with Employees: A Cross-Country Study of Codetermination" (Gregoric, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Sinani, E.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Hard or Soft Regulation of Corporate Governance - Evidence from Voluntary Compliance with Corporate Governance Code Principles" (Schmid, T.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2011 - Conference on Board Diversity and Economic Performance, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen (Denmark)




    • "Women on supervisory boards - how their presence depends on gender-based cognition biases" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2011 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Oslo (Norway)




    • "Does institutional environment matter in executive compensation - a multinational analysis" (Hüttenbrink, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Sharing Voice with Employees: A Cross-Country Study of Codetermination" (Gregoric, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Sinani, E.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2011 - Annual Meeting of the European Management Association (EURAM), Tallinn (Estonia)




    • "Does institutional environment matter in executive compensation - a multinational analysis" (Hüttenbrink, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Is there a dark side of disclosure? - A panel data network analysis of German director compensation" (Oehmichen, J.; Sarry, M.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Stock-based Incentives: Design and Implications for Firm Performance" (Rapp, M.S.; Schaller, P.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Sharing Voice with Employees: A Cross-Country Study of Codetermination" (Gregoric, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Sinani, E.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Are private equity investors governance champions or simply stock picking specialists?" (Kroker, M.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2011 - Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Kaiserslautern (Germany)




    • "Is there a dark side of disclosure? - A panel data network analysis of German director compensation" (Oehmichen, J.; Sarry, M.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Who asks the shareholders? - Voting on Executive Compensation Systems: Experiences from the 2010 AGM Season?" (Rapp, M.S.; Sperling, M.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Price-setting patterns in oligopolies of homogeneous products: An analysis of German gasoline retail markets" (Lindstädt, H.; Oehmichen, J.; Schmidt, P.; Schrapp, S.)






  • 2011 - Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Madrid (Spain)




    • "Sharing Voice with Employees: A Cross-Country Study of Codetermination" (Gregoric, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Sinani, E.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2010 - Annual Meeting of the European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Aarhus (Denmark)




    • "Value-based management systems corporate governance and firm performance - a panel data analysis" (Rapp, M.S.; Schellong, D.; Schmidt, M.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2010 - Annual Meeting of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Istanbul (Turkey)




    • "Value-based management systems corporate governance and firm performance? - a panel data analysis" (Rapp, M.S.; Schellong, D.; Schmidt, M.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2010 - Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Bremen (Germany)




    • "Women in supervisory boards - an analysis of supporters and detractors" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Foreign investors as a mechanism to resolve domestic director networks - evidence from the Germany Inc." (Böhler, D.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Determinants of director compensation in two-tier systems: evidence from German panel data" (Andreas, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2010 - Annual Meeting of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), Porto (Portugal)




    • "Is there a dark side of disclosure? - A panel data network analysis of German director compensation" (Oehmichen, J.; Sarry, M.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2010 - Annual Meeting of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM), Paris (France)




    • "Women in supervisory boards - an analysis of supporters and detractors" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2010 - Annual Meeting of the Scientific Commission for Organization of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Berlin (Germany)




    • "Women in supervisory boards - an analysis of supporters and detractors" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2010 - Annual Meeting of the Scientific Commission for International Management of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Berlin (Germany)




    • "Foreign investors as a mechanism to resolve domestic director networks - evidence from the Germany Inc." (Böhler, D.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2010 - Annual Meeting of the European Management Association (EURAM), Rome (Italy)




    • "Women in supervisory boards - an analysis of supporters and detractors" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Value-based management systems corporate governance and firm performance - a panel data analysis" (Rapp, M.S.; Schellong, D.; Schmidt, M.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2010 - Doctoral Colloquium of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), Rome (Italy)




    • "Multiple directorships of supervisory board members - A panel analysis of their impact in German companies" (Oehmichen, J.)






  • 2010 - 11th Workshop on Corporate Governance and Investment, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)




    • "Women in supervisory boards - an analysis of supporters and detractors" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2010 - 8th Annual Conference of the German Economist Network (efas), Berlin (Germany)




    • "Women in leadership positions - an analysis of organizational success factors and barriers in German companies" (Oehmichen, J.)






  • 2010 - Meeting of the INQA Initiator Circle at the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), Berlin (Germany)




    • "Women in leadership positions - Status Quo in the German economy" (Lindstädt, H.; Oehmichen, J.; Wolff, M.; Watrinet, C.)






  • 2010 - European Network for Research on Organizational and Accounting Change (ENROAC), 5th Doctoral Summer School in Management Accounting organized by the Universities of Manchester and Siena, Siena (Italy)




    • "The interrelation between innovation control and innovative organizational culture and their performance effect - an empirical analysis" (Schönefeld, C.)






  • 2009 - Workshop on International Executive Remuneration, Vanderbilt University Law School, Cambridge (England)




    • "Stock-based incentives: design and implications for firm performance" (Bünn, E.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - Symposium on Economic Analysis of Enterprises, German Economic Association for Business Administration (GEABA), Vallendar (Germany)




    • "Stock-based incentives: design and implications for firm performance" (Bünn, E.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - Annual Meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik, Magdeburg (Germany)




    • "Stock-based incentives: design and implications for firm performance" (Bünn, E.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Nuremberg (Germany)




    • "Existence and significance of stock-price-oriented long-term incentives in the context of executive board remuneration in German Prime Standard companies?" (Rapp, M.S.; Schaller, P.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Does private equity change its business model? - an empirical analysis" (Bünn, E.; Lindstädt, H.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), Geneva (Switzerland)




    • "Busy boards in a two-tier system: old-boys-network or efficient monitoring technology?" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - Annual Meeting of the Strategic Management Society (SMS), Washington D.C. (USA)




    • "The controlling mechanism of supervisory boards and blockholders in a two-tier system" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - Annual Meeting of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), Valencia (Spain)




    • "Busy boards in a two-tier system: old-boys-network or efficient monitoring technology?" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association (EEA), Barcelona (Spain)




    • "Busy boards in a two-tier system: old-boys-network or efficient monitoring technology?" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - International Corporate Governance Workshop, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)




    • "Busy boards in a two-tier system: old-boys-network or efficient monitoring technology?" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - International Conference on Corporate Governance, Birmingham Business School, Birmingham (England)




    • "Busy boards in a two-tier system: old-boys-network or efficient monitoring technology?" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "Stock-based incentives: design and implications for firm performance" (Bünn, E.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - 10th Workshop on Corporate Governance and Investment, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)




    • "Compensation in Europe and the US - empirical evidence" (Hüttenbrink, A.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)

    • "How much power does the chairman need?" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - 7th International Conference on Corporate Governance, Birmingham Business School, Birmingham (UK)




    • "Busy boards in a two-tier system: old-boys-network or efficient monitoring technology?" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2009 - 6th Annual JIBS Paper Development Workshop, San Diego (USA)




    • "Busy boards in a two-tier system: old-boys-network or efficient monitoring technology?" (Oehmichen, J.; Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2008 - Symposium on Economic Analysis of Enterprises, German Economic Association for Business Administration (GEABA), Augsburg (Germany)




    • "Performance Corporate Governance and Executive Board Compensation in German Public Companies - An empirical analysis for DAX, MDAX, SDAX and TecDAX companies?" (Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2008 - Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Berlin (Germany)




    • "Performance Corporate Governance and Executive Board Compensation in German Public Companies - An empirical analysis for DAX, MDAX, SDAX and TecDAX companies?" (Rapp, M.S.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2008 - Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Empirical Personnel and Organizational Research (AKempor), Giessen (Germany)




    • "Existence and significance of stock-price-oriented long-term incentives in the context of executive board remuneration in German Prime Standard companies?" (Rapp, M.S.; Schaller, P.; Wolff, M.)






  • 2007 - NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference, Vienna (Austria)




    • "Personal transmission as a selection device for information" (Lindstädt, H.; Wolff, M.)