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Master Thesis @ IFU

If you are interested in writing your master‘s thesis at our institute, please check the calls for topics below.

Please apply for a topic by sending an email to the supervisor with your CV, a current list of course evaluations and stating your motivation and any experience/skills you consider of interest with regard to the topic.

All theses at our institute require an empirical analysis part. This usually includes generating data from interviews, through a survey or using databases. If you are interested in topics of past masters’ theses and dissertations written at our institute, see here.

Research Topics

Alisa Bach

Pure

  • Management Control System Design

  • Managing Sustainability

  • Management Accounting Fashions

Christoph Feichter

Pure

  • Management Accounting

  • Performance Management

  • Budgeting and Target Setting

  • Performance Evaluation

  • Creativity and Management Control

Methods

Experimental-​, survey-​, and archival

Isabella Grabner

Pure

Areas of Interest

  • The design of management control systems

  • The role of management control systems in

    • Managing creativity and innovation

    • The identification, development and retention of talent

    • Shaping organizational culture

    • Mitigating the leaking pipeline of female talent

  • Budgeting, target setting and forecasting

Otto Janschek

Pure

Areas of Interest

  • Management accounting and management control practices

  • Business planning and forecasting

  • Corporate valuation

Methods

Quantitative methods

Gerhard Speckbacher

Pure

Areas of Interest

  • Strategic performance management

  • Managing team creativity

  • Selection of creative ideas

  • Management control practices in nonprofit organizations

  • Implementation of Sustainability/CSR strategies

Methods

Quantitative methods

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