Thorsten Knauer

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Thorsten Knauer (* 1980 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German economist and professor of business administration . He holds the chair for controlling at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Career

Thorsten Knauer completed an apprenticeship as a banker at Deutsche Bank AG in Wuppertal from 2000 to 2002 . He then studied business administration at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster with a stay abroad at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and graduated in 2007 with a degree in business administration . He received his doctorate in 2010 as a research assistant at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with Wolfgang Berens. In 2013 he completed his habilitation there. During this time, from 2012 to 2013 he spent a research stay at the Ivey Business School (London, Canada) .

From 2013 to 2016 he held a chair for controlling at the University of Bayreuth . In 2015 Thorsten Knauer accepted a position at the Ruhr University Bochum, where he has held the Chair of Controlling since 2016. Since 2019 he has also been the executive scientific director of the Institute for Corporate Management (ifu) at the Ruhr University Bochum.

His main research interests are in the areas of performance management , corporate planning , corporate transactions and value-based controlling . He is the author of numerous scientific and practice-oriented publications.

Together with Friedrich Sommer and Arnt Wöhrmann, Thorsten Knauer is the initiator of EXRIMA (Experimental Research in Management Accounting).

He is also the founder of the Accounting & Controlling Academy, which focuses on in-service training.

Prizes and awards

  • 2017: Fellowship of the Stifterverband for innovations in digital university teaching
  • 2014: Highly Commended Paper Award, Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change
  • 2013: Award for the case study “Media Markt China Ltd. at a Crossroads ”with 1st place in the John Molson MBA Case Writing Competition
  • 2013: Best Paper Award, Business Administration
  • 2007: Award for the best diploma in business administration at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster
  • 2002: Award from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for the best bank examination in North Rhine-Westphalia

Fonts (selection)

  • Due Diligence on Company Acquisitions , 8th edition, Stuttgart 2019, with W. Berens, HU Brauner and J. Strauch.
  • Acquirers' Cultural Background and the Use of Earnouts, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance , forthcoming, with C. Ewelt-Knauer, J. Gefken and D. Wiedemann.
  • The Shareholder Value Effects of using Value-based Performance Measures: Evidence from Acquisitions and Divestments, Management Accounting Research , 41, 2018, pp. 43–61, with L. Silge and F. Sommer.
  • The Adoption and Benefits of Life Cycle Costing, Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change , 14 (2), 2018, pp. 188–215, with K. Möslang.
  • Tournament Winner Proportion and its Effect on Effort: An Investigation of the Underlying Psychological Mechanisms, European Accounting Review , 26 (4), 2017, pp. 681–702, with F. Sommer and A. Wöhrmann.
  • Market Reaction to Goodwill Impairments, European Accounting Review , 25 (3), 2016, pp. 421–449, with A. Wöhrmann.
  • Fraud Characteristics and Their Effects on Shareholder Wealth. Journal of Business Economics , 85 (9), 2015, pp. 1011-1047, with C. Ewelt-Knauer and M. Lachmann.
  • Strategic Management Accounting Practices in Hospitals - Empirical Evidence on their Dissemination under Competitive Market Environments, Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change , 9 (3), 2013, pp. 336–369, with M. Lachmann and R. Trapp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chair of Controlling. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  2. ^ Institute for Corporate Management . Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Experimental Research in Management Accounting. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Accounting & Controlling Academy. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Knauer, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid