Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Robert Gillenkirch
Business administration at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Southampton, graduated with a degree in business administration: Banking and finance, organization and management, operations research.
Institutional economics, incentive systems and management remuneration, corporate governance, value-based management
Robert Gillenkirch, born in 1967, studied business administration at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, where he completed his doctorate (1997) and habilitated in July 2003. From December 2003 to September 2008, he was Professor of Business Administration with a focus on financial controlling at the Georg August University in Göttingen. Prior to this, he declined an offer of a C4 professorship for Human Resources Management at Ruhr University Bochum in 2003.
In the 2008/09 winter semester, Prof. Gillenkirch moved to Osnabrück University to take up the "Heinrich W. Risken Endowed Chair of Corporate Management and Accounting".
- Helmut Laux, Robert Gillenkirch, Heike Schenk-Mathes: Entscheidungstheorie, 11th edition (2025, forthcoming), 10th edition (2018), Springer.
- Gewinn- und aktienkursorientierte Managementvergütung.
Habilitation Thesis. Gabler. Wiesbaden. 2004. - Wertorientierte Unternehmenssteuerung.
Commemorative Publication for Helmut Laux. ed. by Robert M. Gillenkirch, Bernd Schauenberg. Heike Y. Schenk-Mathes & Louis John Velthuis. Springer. Berlin et. al. 2004. - Gestaltung optimaler Anreizverträge - Motivation, Risikoverhalten und beschränkte Haftung.
Dissertation. Gabler. Wiesbaden. 1997.
- Together with Andrej Gill, Julia Ortner and Louis Velthuis:
Dynamics of Reliance on Algorithmic Advice. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Vol. 37(4), 2024. - Together with Louis J. Velthuis:
Delegated Risk-Taking, Accountability, and Outcome Bias. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. Vol. 67, 2023, 137-161. - Together with Olaf Korn and Alexander Merz:
After the Stock Options Boom: Changes in Equity-Based Pay Following the Mandatory Adoption of IFRS 2. The International Journal of Accounting. Vol. 56(2), 2021. - Together with Markus C. Arnold and R. Lynn Hannan:
The Effect of Environmental Risk on the Efficiency of Negotiated Transfer Prices. Contemporary Accounting Research. Vol. 36(2), 2019, 1122-1145. - Together with Markus C. Arnold:
Using Negotiated Budgets for Planning and Performance Evaluation: An Experimental Study. Accounting, Organizations, and Society. Vol. 43, 2015, 1-16. - Together with Achim Hendriks and Susanne A. Welker:
Effects of Executive Compensation Complexity on Investor Behavior in an Experimental Stock Market. European Accounting Review, Vol. 23(4), 2014, 625-645. - Together with Markus C. Arnold:
Centralization versus Delegation in an Experimental Capital Budgeting Setting. Business Research. Vol.4(1), 2011, 10-30. - Together with Helmut Laux and Matthias Schabel: Incentive Compensation, Valuation, and Capital Market Access Schmalenbach Business Review. Vol. 4, 2009, 335-360.
- Development Lines in Management Compensation,
Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis. Vol. 60, 2008, 1-17. - Together with Markus C. Arnold and Susanne A. Welker:
Investment Incentives from Goal-Incongruent Performance Measures: Experimental Evidence,
Operations Research Proceedings 2006, ed. by Karl-Heinz Waldmann and Ulrike M. Stocker, Springer, Berlin et. al., 2007, 381-386. - Together with Markus C. Arnold:
Performance incentives through shares or options? A discussion of the state of the art
Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Vol. 77, 2007, 75-99. - Together with Markus C. Arnold:
Stock Options and Dividend Protection,
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 161, 2005, 453-472. - Comment on the article 'Stock Options, Managerentscheidungen und (eigentliches) Aktionärsinteresse' by Wolfgang Kürsten ( Journal of Business Administration, 71st vol., 2001, 249-270), and concluding remarks on the discussion with Wolfgang Kürsten, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 71st vol., 2001, 1509-16 and 1531-32.
- Together with Matthias Schabel:
Investitionssteuerung, Motivation und Periodenerfolgsrechnung bei ungleichen Zeitpräferenzen.
Fundamentally revised and extended version of the working paper "Die Bedeutung der Periodenerfolgsrechnung für die Investitionssteuerung - Der Fall ungleicher Zeitpräferenzen", Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, Vol. 53, 2001, 215-245. - Anreizwirkungen und Bewertung von Erfolgsbeteiligungen im Fonds-Management.
Fundamentally revised version of the working paper "Anreizwirkungen und Bewertung von Erfolgsbeteiligungen im Portefeuille-Management", Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Special Issue Finanzmanagement, Vol. 69, 1999, 61-85. - Together with Louis J. Velthuis:
Linear incentive contracts for managers with systematic and unsystematic risks,
Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, Vol. 49, 1997, 121-140.
- With Julia Ortner, Sebastian Robert, and Louis Velthuis:
Shared Goals, Shared Success: When and why Compensation Design for Advisors Affects Decision Makers' Reliance on Advice. - With Julia Ortner, Tim Schacherer, and Louis Velthuis:
Algorithmic Target Setting: Fairness Heuristics Drive Subordinate Behavior.
- Principal-agent theory and empirical results on the performance dependence of managerial compensation.
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 29. Jg., 2000, S. 347-349. - Together with Matthias Kropp:
Controlling von Finanzrisiken in Industrieunternehmen,
Zeitschrift für Controlling und Management, Sonderheft 3/2004, 48. Jg., 2004, S. 86-95. - Return targets and capital costs in value-oriented investment management,
in: Wertorientierte Unternehmenssteuerung, Festschrift für Helmut Laux, ed. by Robert M. Gillenkirch, Bernd Schauenberg, Heike Y. Schenk-Mathes and Louis J. Velthuis, Springer, Berlin et al, 2004, pp. 47-76. - Together with René Thamm:
Informationssysteme bei Moral Hazard - Gewichtung und Wert von Erfolgsmaßen in Entlohnungsverträgen.
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, Jg. 35, 2006, pp. 445-450. - Finanzcontrolling,
in: Zeitschrift für Controlling und Management, issue 1/2008, pp. 19-23. - Together with René Thamm:
Case study on company valuation: Valuation of MiQuando-AG
to be published in: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 2008.
- Financial Controlling,
in: Handbuch Unternehmensrechnung und Controlling, ed. by H.-U. Küpper and A. Wagenhofer, Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, 2002, pp. 533-539. - Value Based Management,
Several articles on the topic in the Lexikon Corporate Finance, edited by W. Breuer and T. Schweitzer, Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2004, pp. 547-549. - Together with Louis J. Velthuis:
Zielsysteme,
Appears in: Handwörterbuch der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, ed. by R. Köhler, H.-U. Küpper and A. Pfingsten, Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, 2007, pp. 2029-2037. - Wertorientierte Unternehmensführung
Several articles on this topic in the new edition of the encyclopedia Corporate Finance, edited by W. Breuer, C. Breuer and T. Schweitzer, Gabler, Wiesbaden, to be published in 2011.