Prof. Dr. Sara Bormann

• Since 02/2019: Professor for Accounting, especially Management Control at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Faculty of Business Adminstration
• 2018-2019: Visiting Assistant Professor at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
• 2015-2017: Post-Doc at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
• 2015: Doctor's Degree at the University of Mannheim with the dissertation „Essays on Relational Contracts and Subjective Performance Evaluations within Firms" (summa cum laude)
• 2013/2014: Research stay at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA
• 2012/2013: Short research stays at Tilburg University, Netherlands

• Incentive contracts und performance measurement
• Relational contracts
• Interplay of internal and external information

• American Accounting Association (AAA)
• European Accounting Association (EAA)
• German Economic Association of Business Administration (GEABA)
• European Accounting Symposium for Young Scholars (EASYS), founder and organizer
• Verband der Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.

• Accounting in Europe
• Accounting Review
• European Accounting Review
• Journal of Business Economics
• Journal of Management Accounting Research
• Conferences: AAA Annual Meeting, EAA Annual Congress, MAS, VHB Annual Meeting

Publications

• Andreicovici, I., Bormann, S., and Hombach, K. (forthcoming), Trade Secret Protection and the Integration of Information within Firms, Management Science
• Bormann, S., Haselmann, R., Nienhaus, M. and Rohlfing-Bastian, A. (2021) „Perspektiven der Forschung zur Corporate Governance“, in: Dutzi/Gros/Nowak/Roese (hrsg.) Corporate Governance, Rechenschaft und Abschlussprüfung, Festschrift für Hans-Joachim Böcking zum 65. Geburtstag, C.H.Beck, 177-188
• Bormann, S. (2020), Strategic priorities and organizational design, Journal of Management Accounting Research 32 (3): 7-26
• Bormann, S., Claassen, D., Hofmann, C., Schwaiger, N. (2020), Conservative traits and managerial forecasting style, Journal of Business Economics 90: 335-368
• „Essays on Relational Contracts and Subjective Performance Evaluations within Firms“, Dissertationsschrift, Universität Mannheim (2015)
  Working Papers

Working Papers

• “Information Processing and Analysts Working from Home: Evidence from Brokerage Office Crowdedness” with K. Hombach and J. Wessel
• “Information Systems and Firm’s Financial Reporting Similarity” with K. Hombach, M. Nienhaus, and L. Papadopoulos
• “The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination” with J. Bouwens and C. Hofmann

2024

• EASYS Annual Conference 2024, Bukarest/Romania (scheduled)
• ESMT Accounting Junior Conference, Berlin/Germany (scheduled)

2023

• TRR 266 Forum 2023, Mannheim/Deutschland
• Emerging Scholars in Accounting Conference 2023, Frankfurt a. M./ Germany
• Workshop on Carbon Emission Pledges and Corporate Decarbonization Initiatives, Frankfurt a. M./ Germany
• Workshop on Trust in Organizations and Families
• TRR 266 Annual Conference 2023, Mannheim/Germany

2022

• VHB Annual Conference, Düsseldorf/Germany
• 44th Annual EAA Congress, Bergen/Norway
• EASYS Annual Conference 2022, Bergen/Norway
• 19th Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research (ACMAR), Vallendar/Germany
• Emerging Scholars in Accounting Conference 2022, Frankfurt a. M./ Germany
• Christmas Conference on Diversity
• TRR 266 Annual Conference 2022, München/Germany

2021

• INSEAD, Fontainebleau/France
• University of Bern, Bern/Switzerland
• Tilburg University, Tilburg/Netherlands
• 11th Conference on Performance Measurement & Management Control, Lisboa/Portugal

2020

• Tilburg University, Tilburg/Netherlands
• EASYS Online Conference

2019

• XX. Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse der Unternehmung (GEABA), Vallendar/Germany (Discussant)
• Swiss Winter Accounting Conference 2019, Adelboden/Switzerland (Discussant)

2018

• Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt a. M./ Germany

2017

• Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M., Frankfurt a. M./ Germany

2016

• Annual Meeting of the AAA, New York/USA (Presenter & Discussant)
• 39th Annual Congress of the EAA, Maastricht/Netherlands
• 2nd EASYS Conference, Maastricht/Netherlands
• 2016 MAS Research and Case Conference, Dallas/USA

2015

• Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis/USA

2014

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor/USA
• Annual Meeting of the AAA, Atlanta/USA
• 37th Annual Congress of the EAA, Tallin/Estonia
• 2014 MAS Research and Case Conference, Orlando/USA

2013

• 36th Annual Congress of the EAA, Paris/France
• 10th Annual Congress for Management Accounting Research, Vallendar/Germany
• 2013 MAS Research and Case Conference, New Orleans/USA

2012

• XIII. Annual Congress of the GEABA, Graz/Austria
• 05/2012 28th Doctoral Colloquium of the EAA, Bled/Slovenia 
• 1st ACMAR Doctoral Colloquium, Vallendar/Germany