Ferdinand Kunzl
PhD, Assistenzprofessor I Assistant Professor
Room o.3.39-b
Phone: +43 (0)512 507 71435
Email: ferdinand.kunzl@uibk.ac.at
Research interests:
Interdisciplinary work in the area of management accounting:
- Management accounting as social and organizational practice
- Budgeting and dynamic forms of planning
- Role of management accountants
- Management control and temporality
- Management control and agility
Guest editor of special issue at British Accounting Review:
Navigating the Future: Advances and Challenges in Forecasting – Call for Papers
Publications:
Kunzl, F. (2025). The mobilisation of self-created workplace artifacts for management accountants' identity work. Management Accounting Research, 66. [Link]
Kunzl, F. & Messner, M. (2023). Temporal structuring as self-discipline: Managing time in the budgeting process. Organization Studies, 44 (9). [link]
Current working papers:
Becker, S; Kunzl, F.: Management control and agility: Temporal anchor practices and the (re-)production of temporal asymmetries between waterfall mainland and agile islands
Frederich, K., Kunzl, F. & Messner, M.: Participative budgeting as a contested practice: A study of implementing zero-based budgeting
Wiegmann, L., Goretzki, L. & Kunzl, F.: Anticipatory control – Forecasting meetings as rituals of agitation
Current teaching:
- Management Accounting Seminar (Master’s Program Accounting, Auditing and Taxation)
- Understanding and Designing Controlling Practice Lecture (Master’s Program Accounting, Auditing and Taxation)
- Principles of Management Control Lecture (Bachelor’s Program Management and Economics)
- Supervision of Bachelor's and Master's theses
Selected activities:
- Editorial Board, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management
- Member of the European Accounting Association