We are happy, that Isabella Grabner is part of our team since 1^st of October.

A native of Carinthia, Grabner received her doctorate from WU in 2009 and started at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics in 2010. She has also worked as visiting researcher at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School (Atlanta, USA) and the University of Technology Sydney. Her research focuses mainly on the design of management control systems, in particular performance measurement and incentive systems, and the part they play in the successful management of creativity and innovation. She has recently been investigating the role of performance management in the identification, development, and retention of talent as well as the so-called “leaky pipelines” that lead to the loss of female talent in upper management.

Isabella Grabner has received numerous awards for her research, including the 2016 Best Early Career Researcher in Management Accounting Award (presented by the American Accounting Association), the 2014 Maastricht University Excellent Young Scholar Award, and the Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting Outstanding Paper Award. Her work has been published in internationally renowned journals, including the Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, and Accounting, Organizations and Society.