Tribute to our reviewers: best reviewer awards 2021

When looking back on 2021, the Journal of Management Control proceeded on its path to become an even more internationally recognized and successful journal in the field of management control. In 2021, we received 133 submissions; this is double the number of submissions of 2018. In addition, our journal is becoming more and more international with corresponding authors coming from 39 different countries and reviewers from 22 different countries in 2021. Both the increase in the number of submissions as well as the diverse set of authors and reviewers suggests that the strategy to pursue international growth and recognition appears to have been implemented successfully.

The average time between the receipt of the manuscript and the first decision (submission to first decision) is only 50 days and stable over the years. While we aim for a fast decision, we do not want to further drive down this relative low response time for the first decision; we want to encourage and enable reviewers to thoroughly review a paper without too much time pressure and allow editors to make solid final decisions which are helpful for authors to further develop their papers. During the Covid-pandemic, we experienced that reviewers also needed the time, given the conflicting demands and pressures that they were facing. The first round rejection rate is 81.0%, standing for the high standards of our journal and the rigor in our review processes.

The editors of the Journal of Management Control want to express our gratitude and appreciation for one of the most valuable resources of a journal: our highly skilled reviewers that help to bring papers to their final publication. We are very grateful for the continuous support of so many respected scholars from all around the world. We list all reviewers who finished a review report in the calendar year 2021 below in alphabetical order, and would like to thank them for their excellent services to the journal:

Title	First name	Last name	Affiliation	Country
Mr	Roy-Ivar	Andreassen	NTNU Business School Trondheim	NORWAY
Prof. Dr	Marcus C	Arnold	University of Bern	SWITZERLAND
Dr	David	Bedford	University of Technology Sydney	AUSTRALIA
Prof	Iryna	Berova Alves	ISCAL Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa	PORTUGAL
Prof	Josep	Bisbe Vinas	ESADE Business School	SPAIN
Mrs	Xenia	Boerner	Technische Universität Dresden	GERMANY
Prof	David A	Brown	University of Technology Sydney	AUSTRALIA
Prof. Dr	Michael	Burkert	University of Bern	SWITZERLAND
Prof. Dr	Martine	Cools	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	BELGIUM
Prof. Dr	Anne	D' Arcy	Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien	AUSTRIA
Prof	Ivo	De Loo	Nyenrode Business Universiteit	NETHERLANDS
Prof	Charl	de Villiers	University of Auckland	NEW ZEALAND
Dr	Antonio	Durendez	Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Murcia	SPAIN
Prof. Dr	Christoph	Endenich	ESSEC Business School	FRANCE
Dr	Jan	Endrikat	Technische Universität Dresden	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Christoph	Feichter	Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien	AUSTRIA
Mr	Marc	Feldmann	WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management	GERMANY
Mrs	Maria Teresa	Felicio	ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management	PORTUGAL
Prof. Dr	Andrea	Fried	Linköping University	SWEDEN
Prof	Laura	Gómez Ruiz	Universidad Pablo d'Olavide	SPAIN
Prof. Dr	Lukas	Goretzki	Handelshogskolan i Stockholm	SWEDEN
Prof. Dr	Thomas	Guenther	Technische Universität Dresden	GERMANY
Dr	Benita	Gullkvist	Hanken School of Economics	FINLAND
Dr	Sven	Hartlieb	University of Bamberg	GERMANY
Mr	Oliver	Henk	Nord University Business School	NORWAY
Prof. Dr	Martin	Hiebl	University of Siegen	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Susanne	Homölle	Universität Rostock	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Sophie	Hoozée	Universiteit Gent	BELGIUM
Prof. Dr	Thomas	Kaspereit	University of Luxembourg	LUXEMBOURG
Dr	Aleksandra	Klein	Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien	AUSTRIA
Prof. Dr	Thorsten	Knauer	Ruhr University of Bochum	GERMANY
Prof	Stephan	Kramer	RSM Erasmus University	NETHERLANDS
Prof. Dr	Jennifer	Kunz	Universität Augsburg	GERMANY
Prof	Tim	Lindquist	University of Northern Iowa	UNITED STATES
Prof	Irene Eleonora	Lisi	Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore	ITALY
Prof. Dr	Clemens	Loeffler	Fachhochschule Wien	AUSTRIA
Prof	Sofia Margarida	Lourenꞔo	Lisbon School of Economics and Management	PORTUGAL
Prof. Dr	Thomas	Loy	University of Bremen	GERMANY
Prof	Kari	Lukka	University of Turku	FINLAND
Dr	Hakim	Lyngstadaas	Handelshoyskolen BI—Campus Trondheim	NORWAY
Prof. Dr	Karen	Maas	Open University	NETHERLANDS
Dr	Ricardo	Malagueno	University of East Anglia	UNITED KINGDOM
Prof. Dr	Klaus	Möller	Universität St. Gallen	SWITZERLAND
Dr	Nathan Clive	Morris	Technische Universität Dresden	GERMANY
Dr	Benedikt	Müller-Stewens	University of St. Gallen	SWITZERLAND
Prof. Dr	Pascal	Nevries	University of Kassel	GERMANY
Prof	Kimitaka	Nishitani	Kobe University	JAPAN
Dr	Christian	Nitzl	Universität der Bundeswehr München	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Christian	Ott	EM Strasbourg Business School	FRANCE
Prof	Emilio	Passetti	University of Padova	ITALY
Prof	Jukka	Pellinen	University of Jyväskylä	FINLAND
Prof. Dr	Arthur	Posch	University of Bern	SWITZERLAND
Dr	Martin	Quinn	Queen's University Belfast	UNITED KINGDOM
Prof. Dr	Evelien	Reusen	Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Rotterdam School of Management	NETHERLANDS
Prof. Dr	Robert	Rieg	Aalen University	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Peter	Roetzel	Universität Stuttgart	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Anna	Rohlfing-Bastian	Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Remmer	Sassen	Technische Universität Dresden	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Utz	Schaeffer	WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Daniel	Schaupp	WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management	GERMANY
Dr	Ivo	Schedlinsky	University of Bayreuth	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Frank	Schiemann	University of Bamberg	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Maël	Schnegg	University of St. Gallen	SWITZERLAND
Prof. Dr	Jens Robert	Schöndube	Leibniz Universität Hannover	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Barbara	Schöndube-Pirchegger	Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Anja	Schwering	Universität Potsdam	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Gerhard	Speckbacher	Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien	AUSTRIA
Prof	Breda	Sweeney	National University of Ireland, Galway	IRELAND
Prof. Dr	Sandra	Tillema	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	NETHERLANDS
Prof	Berend	van der Kolk	IE Business School	SPAIN
Dr	Sebastiaan	van Doorn	University of Western Australia	AUSTRALIA
Dr	Jeroen	van Raak	University of Amsterdam	NETHERLANDS
Prof. Dr	Paula	Van Veen-Dirks	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	NETHERLANDS
Prof. Dr	Patrick	Velte	Universität Lüneburg Leuphana	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Friederike	Wall	University of Klagenfurt	AUSTRIA
Prof. Dr	Barbara E	Weissenberger	Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Paul	Wentges	University of Ulm	GERMANY
Dr	Leona	Wiegmann	Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Prof. Dr	Martin	Wiener	Technische Universität Dresden	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Andreas	Woempener	University of Duisburg Essen	GERMANY
Prof. Dr	Arnt	Wöhrmann	Justus Liebig Universität Giessen	GERMANY
Prof	Huaxiang	Yin	Nanyang Technological University	SINGAPORE

On behalf of both the authors and the editors, we appreciate the help of our reviewers for their tremendous input in time and dedication in improving author submissions. The editors of the Journal of Management Control believe that the guidance and recommendations given by reviewers contribute strongly to making good papers even better. Again, thanks to all of you for your expertise and support.

For 2021, the editors of the Journal of Management Control are happy to honour four scholars in particular. They are representative for the above list of reviewers, as they have shown continuous high-quality support of our review processes and have consistently delivered high quality review reports which help the authors to further develop their papers:

Best Reviewer Award 2021: Aleksandra Klein, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Distinguished Reviewer Award 2021: Martin Hiebl, University of Siegen, Germany

Charl de Villiers, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Martin Quinn, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

Congratulations to our four award winners.

Finally, we would like to draw your attention to a forthcoming special issue on risk management and risk governance:

Topic: “Courageous Risk Governance: Enabling Resilience, Autonomy, and New Thinking”

Guest-editor:

Martin Hiebl, University of Siegen, Germany, and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Deadline: December 31, 2022

For further information, please see the call for paper on our website: https://www.springer.com/journal/187/updates

We hope that the readers of the Journal of Management Control may draw new insights from this issue. The authors have contributed to this journal to expand our knowledge in management accounting and control, both for practice and research.

Dresden, May 2022

For the team of editors

Frank Verbeeten

Thomas W. Guenther

Managing editors