Prof. Dr. Timo Vogelsang

Personal Details

Timo Vogelsang is an Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

His research focuses on incentives. He studies the impact of various types of incentives within organizations—both explicit and implicit, monetary and non-monetary—on employee behavior. Within this context, his research also delves into performance measurement and the provision of information.

To examine causal effects and precisely identify mechanisms, Timo Vogelsang primarily uses field experiments in firms. He often complements this with laboratory experiments, online experiments on MTurk or Prolific, survey data, or archival data.

His work has been published, for instance, in the Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, The Accounting Review, The Journal of Labor Economics, and Harvard Business Review. Additionally, Timo Vogelsang serves as an Associate Editor at Accounting Open and as a member of the Editorial Board of Management Accounting Research.

His work also receives attention in the public media, with publications in, for instance, The Economist, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, FAZ, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Capital, and Harvard Business Manager.