Martin Artz

Professor Martin Artz is a Full Professor of Management Accounting & Control at the University of Münster’s School of Business and Economics. He holds adjunct roles at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the Mannheim Business School. His research focuses on goal setting, performance measurement, and organizational design, with notable contributions to Journal of Marketing, The Accounting Review, and Journal of Management Accounting Research. He has received awards such as the Péter Horváth Management Accounting Award (2010) and the 2024 Teaching Award for Outstanding Commitment. Professor Artz also serves on editorial boards of leading journals and co-founded zielnavigator.com, a strategy implementation software solution.

• Roles: Academic Director of Executive MBA Programs at Centrum für Unternehmensrechnung (CUR), Adjunct Faculty at Mannheim Business School
• Education: PhD in Business Administration (2010) and Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) from University of Mannheim

His research emphasizes practical applications, such as analyzing sales executive target adjustments and the impact of performance metrics on marketing strategy. Recent work explores OKRs in SMEs and transparency effects in managerial decision-making. He advises companies on performance management systems and has over 15 years of experience in executive education.