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VHB Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft
WIV Wirtschaftsingenieurverband
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FH-Prof. DI Dr.
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Karl.Zehetner@fh-burgenland.at
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staff

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    Financial Leadership - Transforming Financial Experts into CFOs
    (2013)
    Zehetner, Karl 
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    Fahrngruber, Barbara 
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    Pichler, Robert 
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    Trappl, Stefan 
    Financial leadership is usually defined as the last in a series of steps, leading from junior accountant to Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Financial leadership means that the CFO performs in a way that leads to a competitive advantage for the organization, not only, but particularly in a financial crisis. In a qualitative study, Austrian CFOs were interviewed between the beginning of the financial crisis in 2007 and 2010. The task was to find out whether there is a change in the challenges for the position of the CFO and which competencies and traits prove to be important and necessary for developing financial leadership competencies. The analysis of the interviews provides some surprising insights into a changing professional profile.
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    Motives and Behaviours of Financial Leaders in Austria
    (UniversityPublications.net, 2012)
    Pichler, Robert 
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    Zehetner, Karl 
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    Trappl, Stefan 
    The role of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) as a Financial Leader encompasses much more than the mere mastery of the financial issues of an organization. The personality and the leadership style of CFOs have gained little attention so far although the need for a better understanding of behavioral aspects of Financial Leadership clearly exists. This paper and the underlying research attempt to fill this gap by measuring the motives and personalities of Austrian CFOs. Pioneering work on measuring personality has been done by David McClelland, who identified three human motives including power, achievement, and affiliation-intimacy. In order to measure these three motives, David G. Winter developed "motive imagery", a method of measuring content for the above mentioned motives. It is therefore the purpose of this paper to gain insight into the motivation and personality of Austrian CFOs by analyzing 31 interviews with Austrian CFOs. The findings will provide information about the dominant motives of Austrian CFOs and contribute to a better understanding of the behavioral aspects of Financial Leadership.
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    Educating the Ones Who Count
    (UniversityPublications.net, 2012)
    Zehetner, Karl 
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    Pichler, Robert 
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    Trappl, Stefan 
    A qualitative study was the basis for the design of an academic post-graduate program geared to the education of CFOs. A later quantitative survey stimulated refinements of the program. The findings of the studies were directly incorporated into the program. The paper gives an overview of the studies’ conclusions and gives clues on how to integrate them into post-graduate financial management programs.
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