The competence center of Prof. Dennis Fehrenbacher focuses on management accounting and information systems topics, and specifically digital technologies and their potential use for corporate management. A focus is particularly on behavioural aspects. For example, in one project eye-tracking experiments have been used to investigate how the perception of responsibilities influences information processing in performance evaluations.
In other projects, influences of social media data, enterprise social media or information load on management decision-making and management control are studied. An empirical-quantitative approach including experiments, questionnaire-based surveys, interviews and archival data is used. Collaborations frequently include experts drawn from a wide international network that includes Europe, the USA and Australia. Journals are supported in editing and review activities (including Decision Support Systems, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and the International Conference for Information Systems (ICIS)).