Call for Abstracts: “Simulation in Management Accounting and Management Control” / IFORS 2014 Barcelona, Spain /July 13-18, 2014

We sincerely invite you to submit a paper to the stream “Simulation in Management Accounting and Management Control” to be held at the 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operations Research (IFORS 2014) to be held in Barcelona, Spain on July 13-18, 2014.

In recent years, the application of simulation as a research method in management accounting and management control has gained attraction. Simulation appears to be a powerful method to examine complex and emergent phenomena that incorporate a multitude of interrelated issues. Since manifold interacting issues lead to intractable dimensions in analytical modeling and are particularly difficult to control in empirical research, simulation offers the potential to overcome the weaknesses of these research methods. We encourage contributions that reflect the application of simulation methodology to research questions in management accounting and management control.

Topics of interest are (but not limited to)

• Adaptation of management control systems
• Organizational learning in management control
• Diffusion of innovations in management accounting and management control
• Dynamics and emergence of control mechanisms in organizations
• Economic interaction and management control
• Effectivity of decision-making methods in complex and turbulent environments
• Information quality in management accounting and management control
• Decision-influencing information in complex and turbulent environments
• Interrelations of design elements in performance management systems
• Dynamics in budgeting
• Aggregation and management of risks in complex environments
• Self-organization

Submission

Please submit your abstract (no more than 600 words, no formulas or mathematical notations) via the abstract submission page. Detailed information on the submission process can be found there. Each attendee is allowed to present one paper at the conference.

Select „Submit abstract in an invited session“. In order to submit your abstract, you need to enter a session-code. For the stream „Simulation in Management Accounting and Management Control“ this session-code is: 9b901286

Publication

You will have the possibility to submit your full paper for consideration for publication in a special issue on “Simulation in Management Accounting and Management Control” in the Journal of Management Control. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed in a double-blind review process. Submissions for the special issue are due on October 31st, 2014.

Important dates

Submission deadline: January 31st, 2014
Deadline for registration: April 30th, 2014
Submission deadline special issue: October 31st, 2014

Homepages

Conference homepage: www.ifors2014.org
Abstract submission page: www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2014/
Journal of Management Control: http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/accounting/journal/187

Contact

Friederike Wall and Stephan Leitner
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Dept. for Controlling and Strategic Management
Universitätsstraße 67-67
9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
T +43 463 2700 4003
M friederike.wall@uni-klu.ac.at
M stephan.leitner@aau.at