Isabella Grabner

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 884 citations indexed

About

Isabella Grabner is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management and Accounting. According to data from OpenAlex, Isabella Grabner has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 884 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Management Information Systems, 13 papers in Strategy and Management and 12 papers in Accounting. Recurrent topics in Isabella Grabner's work include Accounting and Organizational Management (15 papers), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (10 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (7 papers). Isabella Grabner is often cited by papers focused on Accounting and Organizational Management (15 papers), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (10 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (7 papers). Isabella Grabner collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Netherlands and Australia. Isabella Grabner's co-authors include Frank Moers, Gerhard Speckbacher, Karen L. Sedatole, Alexander Brüggen, Annelies Renders, Mandy M. Cheng, Christopher S. Chapman, Sven Modell, Lu Yang and Pablo Casas‐Arce and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Management Science and Journal of Accounting Research.

In The Last Decade

Isabella Grabner

35 papers receiving 837 citations

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Management control as a system or a package? Conceptual and empirical issues

2013 321 citations Isabella Grabner, Frank Moers Accounting Organizations and Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Isabella Grabner Austria	12	443	340	312	197	107	41	884
Jan Bouwens Netherlands	14	553 1.2×	585 1.7×	337 1.1×	179 0.9×	135 1.3×	45	1.1k
Victor S. Maas Netherlands	13	443 1.0×	514 1.5×	211 0.7×	233 1.2×	257 2.4×	35	1.0k
Matthias D. Mahlendorf Germany	13	178 0.4×	223 0.7×	177 0.6×	152 0.8×	49 0.5×	44	594
Bernard Pierce Ireland	18	519 1.2×	829 2.4×	344 1.1×	331 1.7×	101 0.9×	27	1.4k
Theresa Libby Canada	17	632 1.4×	573 1.7×	303 1.0×	229 1.2×	295 2.8×	48	1.3k
Joseph G. Fisher United States	17	461 1.0×	480 1.4×	241 0.8×	168 0.9×	399 3.7×	29	1.1k
Julia Mundy United Kingdom	10	471 1.1×	194 0.6×	287 0.9×	381 1.9×	32 0.3×	19	904
William B. Tayler United States	12	261 0.6×	323 0.9×	118 0.4×	92 0.5×	250 2.3×	35	724
Jasmijn C. Bol United States	14	352 0.8×	485 1.4×	150 0.5×	205 1.0×	387 3.6×	29	946
Barbara E. Weißenberger Germany	17	228 0.5×	273 0.8×	345 1.1×	149 0.8×	20 0.2×	70	741

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Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2025). Promotion Decisions and the Adoption of Explicit Potential Assessment. Management Science. 71(11). 9233–9255. 1 indexed citations

Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2024). The role of target difficulty and career tournaments in retaining creative R&D employees. Contemporary Accounting Research. 41(2). 1058–1088. 2 indexed citations

Sautner, Judith, et al.. (2023). How to plug the leaky pipeline in clinical rheumatology across Europe—lessons to be learned from experiences in business. Lara D. Veeken. 62(11). 3538–3546.

Casas‐Arce, Pablo, Mandy M. Cheng, Isabella Grabner, & Sven Modell. (2022). Managerial Accounting for Decision-Making and Planning. Journal of Management Accounting Research. 34(1). 1–7. 6 indexed citations

Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2022). Human in the Loop: An Examination of the Value of Human Judgment Over Predictive Analytics in Anticipating Propensity to Sell for Product Assortment Planning. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2020). Empirische Forschung zu Management Control – Ein Überblick und neue Trends. Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research. 72(2). 149–181. 5 indexed citations

Brüggen, Alexander, Isabella Grabner, & Karen L. Sedatole. (2020). The Folly of Forecasting: The Effects of a Disaggregated Demand Forecasting System on Forecast Error, Forecast Positive Bias, and Inventory Levels. The Accounting Review. 96(2). 127–152. 13 indexed citations

Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2020). How Calibration Committees Can Mitigate Performance Evaluation Bias: An Analysis of Implicit Incentives. The Accounting Review. 95(6). 213–233. 22 indexed citations

Grabner, Isabella & Frank Moers. (2020). Determinants and consequences of budget reallocations. WU Research.

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Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2020). Tacit Knowledge, Audit Quality, and Talent Identification. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Chapman, Christopher S., Isabella Grabner, & Frank Moers. (2020). Introduction to the AOS special issue on management control as system or package. Accounting Organizations and Society. 86. 101194–101194. 6 indexed citations

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Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2020). The effect of horizontal pay dispersion on the effectiveness of performance-based incentives. Accounting Organizations and Society. 88. 101174–101174. 18 indexed citations

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Grabner, Isabella, Annelies Renders, & Lu Yang. (2020). The Complementarity Between CSR Disclosures and the Use of CSR-Based Performance Measures in CEO Annual Incentive Contracts. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2018). Target Setting in Multi-Divisional Firms: State of the Art and Avenues for Future Research. Journal of Management Accounting Research. 30(3). 29–54. 35 indexed citations

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Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2018). Materializing Innovation Capability: A Management Control Perspective. Journal of Management Accounting Research. 30(2). 163–185. 35 indexed citations

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Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2018). Managing the Trade-Off Between Delegation and Task Interdependence in Creative Teams. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2018(1). 14647–14647. 2 indexed citations

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Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2017). Managing the Trade-Off between Delegation and Task Interdependence in Creative Teams: The Role of Personnel and Cultural Controls. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Grabner, Isabella & Frank Moers. (2016). 1st Dutch Accounting Research Conference (DARC). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 90(1/2). 50–54.

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Grabner, Isabella, et al.. (2016). The Complementarity between CSR Disclosures and the Use of CSR-Based Performance Measures in CEO Annual Incentive Contracts. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Grabner, Isabella & Gerhard Speckbacher. (2015). The cost of creativity: A control perspective. Accounting Organizations and Society. 48. 31–42. 75 indexed citations

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