Timo Vogelsang

Timo Vogelsang is an Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. His research examines how management accounting and control systems shape behavior in organizations. He studies how firms design and use performance information and incentives, including what these instruments signal to employees.

His work addresses relative performance feedback, incentive design, and performance evaluation. Current projects extend this agenda to algorithmic decision tools and digital monitoring in management control, as well as the internal reporting of misconduct.

To identify causal effects, he primarily conducts field experiments in firms, often using data from their management accounting and personnel systems. Depending on the question, he complements this work with laboratory and online experiments, surveys, and archival data.

His research has been published or accepted for publication in the Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Management Science, Management Accounting Research, the European Accounting Review, and the Journal of Labor Economics. He serves as an Associate Editor of Accounting Open and on the Editorial Boards of Management Accounting Research and the European Accounting Review.

At Frankfurt School, he teaches managerial accounting at the bachelor level in German and English and has taught doctoral courses on field experiments.

His work on employee attendance and sickness absence contributes evidence to public debate. His research has been featured in, for instance, The Economist, the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, FAZ, Der Spiegel, and Die Zeit.

You can find his personal website here: www.timovogelsang.com