Albrecht Becker. Professor of Management Accounting, Department of Accounting, Auditing

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1 Albrecht Becker Professor of Management Accounting Department of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation University of Innsbruck School of Management Universitätsstr. 15 A Innsbruck, Austria albrecht.becker@uibk.ac.at Curriculum Vitae Academic Career since 2002 since 2008 May 2007 Mar-Apr 2007 Professor of Management Accounting, Department of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, University of Innsbruck School of Management, Austria Dean of University of Innsbruck School of Management, Austria Visiting Researcher, Department of Accounting and Finance, Turku School of Economics, Finland Visiting Professor of Management Control, HEC School of Management, Paris, Accounting and Management Control Department 2000 to 2001 Visiting Professor for Human Resources Management, School of Business & Economics, Free University Berlin, Germany 1994 to 2000 Assistant Professor, Department of General Business Administration, School of Business & Economics, Free University Berlin, Germany 1989 to 1994 Research and teaching assistant, Department of General Business Administration, School of Business & Economics, Free University Berlin, Germany 1988 to 1989 Visiting researcher, Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden 1986 to 1988 Researcher, project "Information technology and power", Carl-von- Ossietzky-University Oldenburg, Germany

2 Albrecht Becker. Curriculum vitae Education 2000 Habilitation (requirement to be eligible for the position of a full professor in Germany and Austria), School of Business & Economics, Free University Berlin, Germany 1994 Dissertation (PhD), School of Business & Economics, Free University Berlin, Germany 1980 to 1986 Studies in Social Sciences, Carl-von-Ossietzky-University Oldenburg, Germany Funded research projects and grants since 2008 "Management Accounting Education in its Contexts: Comparing Austria/Germany and the UK"; funded by the Jubiläumsfonds of the Austrian National Bank; EUR 75, to 2007 "Management Accounting in German-Speaking Countries"; funded by the Austrian Science Fund; EUR 100,829 (with Tobias Scheytt); further funding by the Tyrolean Science Fund; EUR 8, to 1989 Visiting researcher, Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; funded by the German Academic Exchange Service Service to scientific community Organizer of the 9th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, , University of Innsbruck School of Management Member of the scientific committee, 32nd European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Tampere, Finland, May 12 to 15, 2009; and 33rd European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, May 19 to 21, 2010 International Scientific Advisory Board, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Research Group, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK Member of the Editorial Board, European Accounting Review, Innsbruck University Press Co-editor, book series "Controlling", Joseph Eul Verlag (with Volker Lingnau, Technical University Kaiserslautern) Ad hoc Reviewer for Business Research, Die Betriebswirtschaft, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Research, Management Learning, Organization, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation, Zeitschrift für Controlling & Management, Zeitschrift für Planung, Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik and for several conferences

3 Albrecht Becker. Curriculum vitae Research and publications Research groups Speaker, Research Centre Accounting Theory & Research, University of Innsbruck School of Management Member, Research Centre Organization Studies and Research Platform Organizations and Society, University of Innsbruck School of Management Articles in scientific journals Jordan, S., Messner, M. & Becker, A. (2009). Reflection and mindfulness in organizations: Rationales and possibilities for integration. Management Learning, 40, Ahrens, T., Becker, A., Chapman, C., Granlund, M., Habersam, M., Hansen, A., Khalifa, R., Malmi, T., Mennicken, A., Mikes, A., Panozzo, F., Piber, M., Quattrone, P. & Scheytt, T. (2008). The future of interpretive accounting research: A polyphonic debate. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19, Becker, A. (2008). Global or local? Travelling management accounting ideas. economic sociology: the European electronic newsletter, 10, Messner, M.; Becker, A.; Schäffer, U. & Binder, C. (2008). Legitimacy and identity in Germanic management accounting research. European Accounting Review, 17, Becker, A., Brauner, E. & Duschek, S. (2006). Transaktives Wissen, Ressourcen und Wettbewerbsvorteile: Der Akteur als strategischer Faktor. Managementforschung, 16, Brauner, E. & Becker, A. (2006). Beyond knowledge sharing: The management of transactive knowledge systems. Knowledge & Process Management, 13, Becker, A. & Messner, M. (2005). After the scandals: A German-speaking perspective on management accounting research and education. European Accounting Review, 14, Becker, A. (2004). Beyond Organization? Anmerkungen zum Konzept des Beyond Budgeting. Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation, 73, Becker, A. (2004). Jenseits des Kerns des Controlling: Management Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice. Zeitschrift für Controlling & Management, 48, Books Becker, A. (2003). Controlling als reflexive Steuerung von Organisationen. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel. Becker, A. (1996). Rationalität strategischer Entscheidungsprozesse: Ein strukturationstheoretisches Konzept. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts Verlag. Ortmann, G., Windeler, A., Becker, A. & Schulz, H.-J. (1990). Computer und Macht in Organisationen: Mikropolitische Analysen. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.

4 Albrecht Becker. Curriculum vitae Chapters in edited books Messner, M.; Scheytt, T. & Becker, A. (2007). Messen und Managen: Controlling und die (Un)Berechenbarkeit des Managements. In H. Vollmer & A. Mennicken (Hrsg.), Zahlenwerk. Kalkulation, Organisation, Gesellschaft (S ). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. Brauner, E. & Becker, A. (2006). Knowledge management in interaction: Transactive knowledge systems and the management of knowledge. In B. Renzl, K. Matzler & H. H. Hinterhuber (Eds.), The future of knowledge management (S ). Houndsmills: Palgrave. Becker, A. (2005). Accountingforschung, Controlling und Gender: Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven. In G. Krell (Hrsg.), Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Gender Studies: Analysen aus Organisation, Marketing und Controlling (S ). Wiesbaden: Gabler. Brauner, E., Becker, A. & Jordan, S. (2005). Organizational learning: The interplay of routinization and crisis. In S. Gherardi & D. Niccolini (Eds.), The passion for knowing and learning: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Organizational Learning and Knowledge, Vol. 1 (pp ). University of Trento E-book. Scheytt, T., Unterrieder, A. & Becker, A. (2005). Controllingbilder und Controllingpraxis: Epistemologische und methodologische Aspekte internationaler Controllingforschung. In J. Weber & M. Meyer (Hrsg.), Internationalisierung des Controlling: Standortbestimmung und Optionen (S ). Wiesbaden: Gabler. Becker, A. (2004). Controlling als Praxis: Eine strukturationstheoretische Perspektive auf Controlling. In E. Scherm & G. Pietsch (Hrsg.), Controlling: Theorien und Konzeptionen (pp ). München: Vahlen. Brauner, E. & Becker, A. (2004). Wissensmanagement und organisationales Lernen: Personalentwicklung und Lernen durch transaktive Wissenssysteme. In G. Hertel & U. Konradt (Hrsg.), Electronic Human Ressource Management: Personalarbeit unter Einsatz des Inter- und Intranet (S ). Göttingen: Hogrefe. Becker, A., Jordan, S. & Messner, M. (2003). Controlling als organisationale Praxis: Implikationen für die Forschung. In J. Weber & B. Hirsch (Hrsg.), Zur Zukunft der Controllingforschung (S ). Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts Verlag. Becker, A. (2001). Strategisches Controlling und Strukturation. In G. Ortmann & J. Sydow (Hrsg.). Strategisches Management und Unternehmungsnetzwerke: Strukturationstheoretische Analysen (S ). Wiesbaden: Gabler. Brauner, E. & Becker, A. (2001). Wormholes to organizational expertise: The management of metaknowledge. In M. Crossan & F Olivera (Eds.), Organizational learning and knowledge management: New directions, 4th International Conference. Proceedings (pp ). London (Ontario): Richard Ivey School of Business. Becker, A. (2000). Rationalität als soziale Konstruktion: Strukturation, Konstruktivismus und die Rationalität organisationaler Entscheidungsprozesse. In H. H. Hinterhuber, S. A. Friedrich, A. Al-Ani & G. Handlbauer (Hrsg.), Das Neue Strategische Management: Perspektiven und Elemente einer zeitgemäßen Unternehmensführung (2. Aufl.) (S ). Wiesbaden: Gabler. Becker, A. (1999). Accounting: Diskurs oder soziale Praxis? Kritik der postmodernen Accounting-Forschung. In G. Schreyögg (Hrsg.), Organisation und Postmoderne: Grundfragen - Analysen Perspektiven (S ). Wiesbaden: Gabler.

5 Albrecht Becker. Curriculum vitae Becker, A. (1998). Rationalität in innovativen Entscheidungsprozessen. In E. Gerum (Hrsg.), Innovation in der Betriebswirtschaftslehre (S ). Wiesbaden: Gabler. Becker, A. & Ortmann, G. (1994). Management und Mikropolitik: Ein strukturationstheoretischer Ansatz. In M. Hofmann & A. Al-Ani (Hrsg.), Neue Entwicklungen im Management (S ). Heidelberg: Physica. ebenfalls erschienen in G. Ortmann (1995), Formen der Produktion: Organisation und Rekursivität (S ). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. Becker, A. & Brauner, E. (1988). "... als gelte es, eine Linie an den Rand des Universums zu ziehen": Computerfaszination und Individuation. In A. Krafft & G. Ortmann (Hrsg.), Computer und Psyche: Angstlust am Computer(S ). Frankfurt a. M: Nexus. Becker, A., Küpper, W. & Ortmann, G. (1988). Revisionen der Rationalität. In W. Küpper & G. Ortmann (Hrsg.). Mikropolitik: Rationalität, Macht und Spiele in Organisationen (S ). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. Articles in encyclopedias Messner, M. & Becker, A. (2008). Organizational literature, Germanic. In S. R. Clegg & J. R. Bailey (eds.), International encyclopedia of organization studies (pp ). London: Sage. Becker, A. (2004). Evolutionstheoretischer Ansatz. In G. Schreyögg & A. v. Werder (Hrsg.), Handwörterbuch Unternehmensführung und Organisation (4. Aufl.) (Sp ). Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel. Becker, A. (2004). Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Beratung. In F. Nestmann, F. Engel & U. Sickendiek (Hrsg.). Das Handbuch der Beratung (pp ). Tübingen: dgvt-verlag. Becker, A. (2000). Artikel über March, J. G. & Simon, H. A. (1958). Organizations. New York: Wiley. In K. Türk (Hrsg.), Hauptwerke der Organisationstheorie (S ). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. Becker, A. (2000): Artikel über Simon, H. A. (1947). Administrative behavior. New York: Macmillan. In K. Türk (Hrsg.), Hauptwerke der Organisationstheorie (S ). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. Conference presentations Becker, A. & Saxl, A. (2009). The travel of management control ideas: Cases from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Paper presented at the 32nd European Accounting Association Annual Congress. Tampere, Finland, May 12 to 15, Becker, A. (2008). Global or local? On standardization in management accounting. Paper presented at the Controllingtagung, Otto-Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, March 06-07, Becker, A. & Saxl, A. (2008). The global and the local in management accounting practice: Cases from German-speaking countries. Paper presented at the Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Baruch College, City University of New Nork, April 24 to 26, Becker, A. (2007). Definitionssache: Anmerkungen zur Identität des Controlling. Paper presented at the Controllertagung, , WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar.

6 Albrecht Becker. Curriculum vitae Becker, A. & Ellebring, F. (2007). Management accounting education in its contexts: A comparative study. Paper presented at the 23rd EGOS Colloquium: Beyond Waltz: Dances of Individuals and Organizations. Subtheme 38: Management Education: Reconfiguration of a Field. Vienna, July 05-07, Becker, A.; Jones, T. C.; Saxl, A. & Scheytt, T. (2007). Social Construction of Controlling and Controllers in Switzerland. Paper presented at the 30th European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Lisbon, April 24-28, Becker, A. & Saxl, A. (2007). Global influences and local management accounting practice: Cases from German-speaking countries. Paper presented at the Globalizing, Managing, and Management Accounting Conference, University of Alberta Business School, September 21-22, Jordan, S.; Messner, M. & Becker, A. (2007). Accounting for critical events. Paper presented at the 23rd EGOS Colloquium: Beyond Waltz: Dances of Individuals and Organizations. Vienna, July 05-07, Messner, M.; Becker, A.; Schäffer, U. & Binder, C. (2007). A matter of discipline: Struggles for identity in Germanic management accounting research. Paper presented at the 30th European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Lisbon, April 24-28, Ahrens, T., Becker, A., Chapman, C., Granlund, M., Habersam, M., Hansen, A., Khalifa, R., Malmi, T., Mennicken, A., Mikes, A., Panozzo, F., Piber, M., Quattrone, P. & Scheytt, T. (2006). The future of interpretive accounting research: A polyphonic debate. Paper presented at the 29th European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Dublin, March 22-24, Becker, A. (2006). Doing what the numbers say? Calculation and agency. Paper presented at the conference "Die gesellschaftliche Herrschaft der Zahlen / The Social Rule of Numbers", Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Sozialforschung, Becker, A. (2006). Qualitative accounting research as obligation and opportunity: A (very) Germanic view. Symposium "The contribution of qualitative research to a[n accounting] world dominated by numbers", 29th European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Dublin, March 22-24, Becker, A.; Unterrieder, A. & Scheytt, T. (2006). Making sense of Controlling: Self-images and activities of German management accountants. Paper presented at the 5th Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting: Innovations in Practice and Research, Brussels, December 14 16, Messner, M. & Becker, A. (2006). Management accountants as 'change agents': Between continuity, creativity, and responsiveness. Paper presented at the 8th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Cardiff Business School, July 12-14, Messner, M., Becker, A. & Jordan, S. (2006). The 'event of practice': Exploring what happens in organizations. Paper presented at the 2nd Organization Studies Summer Workshop "Re-turn to practice: Understanding organization as it happens", Mykonos, Greece, June 15-16, Becker, A. (2005). Accounting, "Controlling" and "Controlling" theory: Strategies of constructing reality. Paper presented at the Heinz von Foerster-Congress: "Wahrheit ist die Erfindung eines Lügners: Heinz von Foerster und der Konstruktivismus", Universität Wien,

7 Albrecht Becker. Curriculum vitae Becker, A., Brauner, E. & Duschek, S. (2005). Transactive knowledge systems and competitive advantage: Re-conceptualizing knowledge in the knowledge-based perspective of the firm. Paper presented at 21st EGOS-Colloquium: Unlocking Organizations. Subtheme 18: When Organization Studies Meet Economics: Alternative Philosophies of Knowledge Management and the Theory of the Firm. Berlin, Becker, A., Scheytt, T. & Unterrieder, A. (2005). Images of management accounting: Activities and expectations in German management accounting. Paper presented at the 28th European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Göteborg, May 18 20, Becker, A., Unterrieder, A. & Scheytt, T. (2005). Culture, expectations, and control: Blind Spots in the Images and Self-Images of Controlling. Paper presented at Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference 2005, Baruch College, City University New York, April, 28-30, Brauner, E., Becker, A. & Jordan, S. (2005). Organizational learning: The interplay of routinization and crisis. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Organizational Learning and Knowledge, University of Trento, June 09 11, Messner, M., Jordan, S. & Becker, A. (2005). Three dimensions of mindfulness. Paper presented at 21st EGOS-Colloquium: Unlocking Organizations. Sub-Theme 19: Practice- Based Studies of Knowledge, Work and Technology. Berlin, , Becker, A. (2004). Doing what the numbers say: The object-ivity of management accounting. Paper presented at the 20th EGOS-Colloquium, Ljubljana, July 1-3, Scheytt, T., Unterrieder, A. & Becker, A. (2004). Controllingbilder und Controllingpraxis: Epistemologische und methodologische Aspekte internationaler Accountingforschung. Paper presented at the Controllertagung, WHU, Vallendar, September 09-10, Becker, A., & Brauner, E. (2003). Management as reflexive practice and the role of transactive knowledge. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Organizational Learning and Knowledge, Lancaster, May 30 - June 2, Becker, A., Jordan, S., & Messner, M. (2003). Controlling als organisationale Praxis: Implikationen für die Forschung. Paper presented at the Controllertagung, WHU Vallendar, Germany, April, 9-11, Becker, A., Duschek, S., & Brauner, E. (2002). Going beyond the resources given: A structurationist view on knowledge and strategic management. Paper presented at the 3rd European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities OKLC, Athens Laboratory of Business Administration ALBA, Greece, April 5 6, Brauner, E. & Becker, A. (2001). Wormholes to organizational expertise: The management of metaknowledge. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management: New Directions. Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada, June, 1 5, Becker, A. (1999). Accounting for "Controlling": Contradictions in the theoretical foundations of management accounting and control in German business administration. Paper presented at Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Baruch College, City University of New York, April 22-24, Brauner, E. & Becker, A. (1999). Controlling als transaktives Wissenssystem. Paper presented at the Workshop "Wissen - Wissenschaftstheorie - Wissensmanagement" der

8 Albrecht Becker. Curriculum vitae Kommission Wissenschaftstheorie im Hochschullehrerverband für Betriebswirtschaftslehre e.v., Freie Universität Berlin, Becker, A. (1998). Controlling: Ansatzpunkte zu einer strukturationstheoretischen Rekonstruktion. Paper presented at the Habilitand(inn)enworkshop der Kommission Organisation im Hochschullehrerverband für Betriebswirtschaft e.v., Mannheim, Becker, A. (1998). Accounting als Diskurs oder als Praxis? Kritik der postmodernen Accounting-Forschung. Paper presented at the 22. Workshop der Kommission Organisation im Hochschullehrerverband für Betriebswirtschaft e.v., Berlin, , Freie Universität Berlin. Becker, A. (1997). Rationality, knowledge, and power. Paper presented at the 1st International Organization Conference on Modes of Organising: Power/Knowledge Shifts, Warwick, April 3-4, Becker, A. (1996). Bounded Rationality Revisited. Paper presented at the 4th International Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Stockholm, August 28-30, Presentations at staff seminars The global and the local in management accounting practice: Cases from German-speaking countries. Paper presented at the research seminar, University of Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law, Sweden, February 13, 2008 (co-author: Astrid Saxl). A matter of identity: The struggle for legitimacy in Germanic management accounting research. Paper presented at the research seminar, Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland, May 28, (co-authors: Martin Messner, Utz Schäffer, Christoph Binder) A matter of discipline: Struggles for identity in Germanic management accounting. Paper presented at the research seminar, HEC School of Management, Department of Accounting and Management Control, Paris, France, April 06, (co-authors: Martin Messner, Utz Schäffer, Christoph Binder) Management and economics in university education: Traditions and lessons from Germanspeaking countries. Vortrag auf der Konferenz der betriebswirtschaftlichen Hochschullehrer/-innen Madrider Universitäten, Alcalá de Henares, Accounting und Gender. Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Gender", School of Business and Economics, Free University Berlin,