Martin Piber

Research interests

• performance measurement (perspectives of structuration theory and new institutionalism)
• accounting for intellectual capital
• managing cultural organizations
• Forschungsinitiative Kulturmanagement: Museen zwischen Organisation, Exzellenz, Zahlen und Performance

Selected publications

• Piber, M., Demartini, P. and Biondi, L. (2019), "The management of participatory cultural initiatives: Learning from the discourse on intellectual capital", Journal of Management and Governance, Vol. 23 (1), pp.1-24.
• Habersam, M., Piber, M. and Skoog, M. (2018) "Ten years of using knowledge balance sheets in Austrian public universities: A retrospective and prospective view", Journal of Intellectual Capital, Vol. 19 (1), pp.34-52.
• Abfalter, D. and Piber, M. (2016) "Strategizing Cultural Clusters: Long-Range Socio-Political Plans or Emergent Strategy Development?", The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Vol. 46 (4), pp. 177-186.
• Piber, M., Walmsley, B. (2014), "Managing Strategic and Financial Performance", Moss, S. and Walmsley, B. (ed.), Entertainment Management - Towards Best Practice (2014), Wallingford: CABI, pp.237-251.
• Habersam, M., Piber, M. and Skoog, M. (2013), “Knowledge balance sheets in Austrian universities: The implementation, use, and re-shaping of measurement and management practices”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 24 4-5, pp. 319–337.
• Gstraunthaler, T., & Piber, M. (2012). The Performance of Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. International Studies of Management and Organization, 42(2), 29–42.
• Ahrens, T., Becker, A., Burns, J., Chapman, C. S., 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(6), 840–866.
• In: Critical Perspectives on Accounting 19/6, S. 840 - 866.
• Gstraunthaler, T., & Piber, M. (2007). Performance Measurement and Accounting: Museums in Austria. Museum Management and Curatorship, 22(4), 361–375. [link]
• Habersam, M., & Piber, M. (2003). Exploring intellectual capital in hospitals: two qualitative case studies in Italy and Austria. European Accounting Review, 12(4), 753–779.

Activities

Speaker of the research centre « Organization Studies »

Prior affiliations

• Visiting Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney
• Visiting professor at Stockholm University – School of Management
• Visiting Professer at Università degli Studi di Pavia
• Visiting professor at the department of Accounting of the University of Cape Town