Oct 27, 2025
Special Issue in the Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
Call for Papers: Bright Minds, Dark Shadows – Executive Personality and the Role of Management Accounting
Philipp Richter (Technische Universität Dresden), together with Aline Grahn (Freie Universität Berlin), is guest editing a special issue of the Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change titled “Bright Minds, Dark Shadows: Executive Personality and the Role of Management Accounting.”
This special issue explores how executive personality shapes management accounting and control systems (MACS)—and how these systems, in turn, influence executive behaviour and decision-making. The issue invites theoretical and empirical contributions that deepen our understanding of how individual traits interact with MACS to drive or constrain organisational outcomes.
Submission window: 15 March – 16 August 2026
Journal: Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change