About Controlling & Management Review

Controlling & Management Review

Controlling & Management Review — "Zeitschrift für Controlling & Management" — is the German controlling science's transfer journal, published by Springer Gabler in Wiesbaden. Since 1957 (first as krp – Kostenrechnungspraxis, then as Zeitschrift für Controlling & Management) the title mediates the dialogue between practitioners and scientists — "die führende und meistzitierte deutsche Fachzeitschrift im Controlling" (the leading and most-cited German specialist journal in controlling). The editors — Prof. Dr. Utz Schäffer and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber, directors of the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management's Institute for Management and Controlling — curate the state of the art: six issues a year, print and online.

Overview

The journal serves the controlling profession: the controllers, the CFOs, the finance managers, the academics — the corporate management's measurers. The controlling discipline — the journal's subject — deserves its telling. The Controlling — the German corporate management's steering function (the planning, the reporting, the analysis, the decision support) — differs from the Anglo "controlling": the management's partner, not the audit. The Kostenrechnung — the cost accounting — founded the discipline: the 1957 krp's subject. The Unternehmenssteuerung — the corporate management — widened it: the strategy, the finance. The digitalization — the IT and analytics — transforms it: the data, the AI. The journal's "State of the Art" mission — the readers' currency — keeps the profession current: the controllers' continuing education — the transfer journal's purpose. The "meistzitierte" (most-cited) status — the practice-oriented journal's citation leadership — proves the relevance: the science cites the practice — the transfer's success. The readers gain the holistic information: the controlling and the corporate management's relevant aspects — the accounting and reporting, the IT and analytics, the management finance and strategy.

The six-issues rhythm — the bimonthly (earlier: eight issues including a double issue, bound in the Jahrbuch) — follows the controlling year's rhythm: the planning cycles, the closings, the budgets. The ISSN — print 2195-8262, online 2195-8270 (2510-9863) — marks the bibliographic identity: the EZB's journal 109912, the ZDB's 2056836-8. The Jahrbuch — the annual volume — deserves its telling. The "Controlling & Management Review – Jahrgang" (the year's volume, e.g. 2020, 2024) — the hardcover — binds the year's issues (eight, including a double issue in the earlier rhythm) in one band: the library's reference. The 2020 Jahrgang — 493 pages, the ISBN 9783658333355 — exemplifies the format: the collected state of the art. The Jahrbuch's promise — the holistic information on controlling and corporate management's relevant aspects — serves the professionals: the desk reference. The annual rhythm — the year's discourse collected — documents the discipline: the controlling's development, year by year. The Springer Gabler's book program — the Jahrgang's publisher — integrates the journal: the periodical and the book — the transfer's two forms.

History

Controlling & Management Review — established 1957 — began as krp – Kostenrechnungspraxis (the cost-accounting practice): the Gabler Verlag's Wiesbaden journal for the cost accountants. The 2003 rename — Controlling & Management (ZfCM, volumes 47–56, 2003–2012) — reflected the controlling's rise: the cost accounting's evolution into the corporate management. The title history — the 1957 to 2013 evolution — deserves its telling. The krp – Kostenrechnungspraxis (volumes 44–46, 2000–2002 in the EZB's record; founded 1957) — the cost-accounting practice — served the calculators: the cost types, the cost centers, the cost units. The Controlling & Management / ZfCM (volumes 47–56, 2003–2012) — the controlling and management — reflected the discipline's expansion: the planning, the reporting, the steering. The Controlling & Management Review (from volume 57, January 2013) — the review — internationalized the brand: the English title, the German content. The ISSN lineage — 0931-9077 (krp), 1614-1822 (ZfCM), 2195-8262 (CMR) — traces the continuity: the same journal, the evolving name. The 1957 founding — the postwar controlling's dawn — makes it the oldest: the German controlling journalism's senior.

The WHU editorship — the science's authority — deserves its telling. Prof. Dr. Utz Schäffer and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber — the editors — direct the Institut für Management und Controlling (IMC) at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar: the controlling research's German center. The "Spagat zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis" (the balancing act between science and practice) — the editors' promise — defines the journal: the research and the application, the academics' and the managers' views. The author information — the Springer-Fachmedien Wiesbaden's PDF — invites the practitioners: the best-practice examples of general interest, the experience from controlling projects and change processes, the assessments of practice-relevant developments, the critical views, the innovative impulses. The transfer mission — "Dialog zwischen Praktikern und Wissenschaftlern" (dialogue between practitioners and scientists) — serves the readers: the state of the art in controlling and corporate management. The "meistzitierte" (most-cited) claim — the practice-oriented journal's citation leadership — documents the influence: the controlling's discourse. The special issues — the Sonderheft (2003–2016, discontinued) — supplemented the regular: the focused topics. The Springer integration — the Springer-Fachmedien Wiesbaden, the link.springer.com journal 12176 — digitized the distribution: the online full text from volume 44 (2000).

Coverage and Content

The editorial program follows the controlling year's agenda. The best-practice coverage — the corporate management's examples — shows the very good controlling practice: the projects, the change processes. The innovation coverage — the innovative ideas — gives the impulses: the new approaches, the critical views on practice standards. The trend coverage — the practice-relevant developments — assesses the future: the digitalization, the analytics.

The finance-function coverage — the accounting and reporting, the IT and analytics, the management finance and strategy — widens the view: the controlling's neighboring fields. The practitioner-authors — the "Sie sind Praktiker und möchten für uns schreiben" (you are a practitioner and want to write for us) — contribute the experience: the controlling projects' lessons. The scientist-authors — the WHU and the universities — provide the research: the state of the art.

Organization and Ownership

Controlling & Management Review is published by Springer Gabler (Springer-Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH), Wiesbaden — the Springer Nature group's German-language business imprint. The editors — Prof. Dr. Utz Schäffer and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Weber — lead the content: the WHU Institute for Management and Controlling's directors. The transfer-journal model — the Springer Gabler's transfer titles — serves the science-practice dialogue: the peer-reviewed practice.

The business model follows the academic-press pattern: the subscriptions (print and online, the campus licenses), the Jahrbuch sales, the advertising (selective). The EZB's "kostenpflichtig" (paid) — the subscription with authentication — documents the access: the institutional. Detailed circulation and revenue figures are not publicly confirmed.

Digital Presence

The journal's digital home is link.springer.com/journal/12176: the online full text (from volume 44, 2000), the current issues, the archive. The Springer Gabler house — the publishing context — deserves its telling. The Wiesbaden business imprint — Springer-Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH — publishes the German-language management literature: the journals, the books, the transfer titles. The springerprofessional.de portal — the row's website — serves the professionals: the articles, the book chapters, the news — the subscription platform. The SpringerLink integration — the journal 12176 — reaches the global academia: the citations, the downloads. The campus licenses — the EZB's "Subskription mit Authentifizierungsmechanismen" — fund the access: the universities' libraries. The Wiesbaden base — the Verlagsort (Berlin, Heidelberg, Wiesbaden) — houses the editorial: the business journalism's Hessian home. The transfer journals' family — the CMR among them — serves the professions: the science-practice dialogue — the Springer Gabler's mission. The online ISSN — 2195-8270 (2510-9863) — marks the digital identity. The EZB listing — the journal 109912 — guides the libraries: the access conditions.

The digital strategy follows the academic logic: the print six-issues for the subscribers' desks — the controlling's state of the art — the SpringerLink for the researchers' screens — the citations, the downloads. As the controlling's transfer journal — the 1957-founded title, published by Springer Gabler — Controlling & Management Review remains the profession's bridge: the science and the practice — six issues a year, the Jahrbuch annually, online on SpringerLink.