Dr. Yannik Gehrke
Short biography
| since 2022 | Assistant professor at the Chair of Management and Control |
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| 2021 | Visiting researcher at the Department of Accounting, University of Groningen, funded by the ENLIGHT university network |
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| 2018 - 2021 | PhD in Economic Sciences and research associate at the Chair of Management and Control |
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| 2018 - 2021 | Internal consultant at Siemens AG in corporate strategy and digitalization |
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| 2016 - 2018 | Various internships in Strategy, Procurement, Sales and Logistics at Volkswagen AG |
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| 2016 - 2018 | M.Sc. in Management, Georg-August-University Goettingen |
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| 2012 - 2016 | B.Sc. in Business Administration, Georg-August-University Goettingen, specialization in management |
Research and areas of
interest
- Management control
- Top management teams
- Digital transformation
- Sustainability
Supervised
courses
Publications (Peer-Reviewed)
- Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Richter, S.; Wolff, M. (2023): "CFO Career Concerns and Strategic Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of M&As", in: European Accounting Review.
- Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Wolff, M. (2023): "Digital Anxiety in the Finance Function: Consequences and Mitigating Factors", in: Journal of Management Accounting Research.
- Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Hanelt, A.; Wolff, M. (2022): "Top management team characteristics and digital innovation: Exploring digital knowledge and TMT interfaces", in: Long Range Planning, 55(3).
Publications (Practice-oriented)
- Meier de West, T.; Gehrke, Y.; Wolff, M. (2023): "Data Analytics im Rahmen der Strategieimplementierung", in: Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation, (2).
Conference Papers
- 2023 – Academy of Management (AOM), Boston (USA)
“Do first impressions matter? Initial CEO performance and dismissal” (Burkert, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Schepker, D.; Nyberg, A.) - 2023 – Academy of Management (AOM), Boston (USA)
“Trying the Well-Tried: Short-Term CEO Bonus Pay and Corporate Emissions” (Achilles, C.; Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Wolff, M.) - 2023 – Academy of Management (AOM), Boston (USA)
“Executive tenure and the use of social media” (Gehrke, Y.; Klass, J.; Wolff, M.) - 2023 – Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research (ACMAR), Vallendar (Germany)
“Management control design in a multinational setting: How to bridge national cultural distance” (Gehrke, Y.; Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.) - 2022 – International Consortium for Values-Based Governance (ICGV) Conference, Melbourne (Online)
“Management control design in a multinational setting: How to bridge national cultural distance” (Gehrke, Y.; Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.) - 2022 – Academy of Management (AOM), Seattle (USA)
“The dark side of organizational identification: Voluntary CEO turnover during poor firm performance” (Berger, L.; Gehrke, Y.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.) - 2022 – Academy of Management (AOM), Seattle (USA)
“Curse or Blessing? The Use of Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Digital Era” (Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Holst, M.; Wolff, M.) - 2022 – European Accounting Association (EAA), Bergen (Norway)
“The dark side of organizational identification: Voluntary CEO turnover during poor firm performance” (Berger, L.; Gehrke, Y.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.) - 2022 – European Accounting Association (EAA), Bergen (Norway)
“Curse or Blessing? The Use of Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Digital Era” (Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Holst, M.; Wolff, M.) - 2022 – European Accounting Association (EAA), Bergen (Norway)
“Management control design in a multinational setting: How to bridge national cultural distance” (Gehrke, Y.; Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.) - 2022 – Empirical Research in Management Accounting & Control (ERMAC), Vienna (Austria)
“Management control design in a multinational setting: How to bridge national cultural distance” (Gehrke, Y.; Firk, S.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.) - 2022 – Wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung der VHB
“The dark side of organizational identification: Voluntary CEO turnover during poor firm performance” (Berger, L.; Gehrke, Y.; Hennig, J.; Wolff, M.) - 2021 – International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Groningen (Netherlands)
“Substance in the nomination committee – how to oppose powerful CEOs in audit committee appointments” (Hennig, J.; Gehrke, Y.; Kemmerich, K.; Wolff, M.) - 2020 - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings 2020
"Digital anxiety in the organization: Consequences and mitigating factors" (Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.; Wolff, M.) - 2019 - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings 2019
"How Advising and Monitoring Drive Older CEOs Towards Digital Innovation" (Firk, S.; Gehrke, Y.) - 2018 - European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Portsmouth (United Kingdom).
"Antecedents and Outcomes of Operational Alignment in the Context of Academic Institutions" (Gehrke, Y.; Schanze, P.; Mandrella, M.; Trang, S.; Kolbe, L.)