Anna Rohlfing-Bastian

I am Assistant Professor of Organization Economics and Management at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. I received my doctoral degree in Accounting from Mannheim University in 2010. My research interests include management compensation, incenctive contracts, task assignment, organizational structure, cost accounting, and franchising.

In 2011, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Accounting Area of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California. I worked as a Research Assistant at the Chair for Organization Theory, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, as Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Business Administration and Managerial Accounting, Mannheim University from 2007 to 2010 and as a Coordinator of the PhD program at Tubingen University from 2006 to 2007. I hold a diploma in International Business Administration with language certificates in English and Italian from Tubingen University and spent one year abroad at Bocconi University in Milan.

Research Interests

• Incentive Contracts and Performance Measurement
• Task Assignment in Firms
• Organizational Structures
• Relevant Costs for Decision-Making

Experience

• 2020: Offer from the Wirtschaftsuniversität (WU) Vienna for a Professorship in Accounting and Reporting (declined)
• Since 04/2016: Professor (W3) for Accounting, especially Management Accounting at Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Business Administration
• 2013-2016: Professor (W3) for Managerial Accounting at the University of Tübingen
• 2011-2013: Junior Professor for Organizational Economics und Management at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar
• 2011: Visiting Scholar (Post-Doc) at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California, USA
• 2010: Doctor's Degree at the University of Mannheim with the dissertation „Essays on Incentive Contracts and Organizational Design in Franchising“ (summa cum laude)
• 2007-2010: Research Assistant at the Chair for Business Administration and Controlling at the University of Mannheim
• 2006-2007: Coordination of the Graduate School of the School of Business and Economics at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
• 2002-2006: Studies of International Business Administration at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (2004-2005: Study abroad at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy)

Education

• Dr. rer. pol. University of Mannheim (2007 — 2010)
• Diplom-Kauffrau University of Tübingen (2002 — 2006)
• Diplom-Kauffrau Università Bocconi (2004 — 2005)