Manufacturing and Service Accounting Research (MSAR) 2026

The Manufacturing and Service Accounting Research (MSAR) is a biennial conference where worldwide leading scholars, researchers and practitioners debate on control, cost and performance management related issues in a wide range of business organizations, both in manufacturing and service.

In 2026 the conference will be hosted by Tampere University in Tampere, Finland.

The Tampere 2026 MSAR conference continues and evolves themes established in previous conferences and explicitly acknowledges and addresses the service dimension in business environment as a relevant area for the accounting research perspective. Direct engagement with operational processes has always been a central feature in the academic papers presented at this conference.

Similar to the earlier conferences, the Tampere-2026 MSAR conference continues to welcome papers with a strong operational orientation. Such papers could relate to, for example, the design and use of management and cost accounting, business analytics, management control, and performance management systems in all functional domains of the organization, as well as supplier-customer relationships and wider networks and ecosystems. The papers are encouraged to consider timely advancements of the relevant technologies, such as artificial intelligence, developments in the working life in general and perspectives of sustainability in organizations and in society.

Keynote Speakers
Marc Wouters, Professor, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Silvia Jordan, Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Marko Järvenpää, Professor, University of Vaasa, Finland

Deadline for registration and the final submission of full papers & extended abstracts: Friday, 8 May 2026
You can make your final submission here and register here. Please see the specific sections for details.

Please see also the QRAM special issue opportunity linked to the MSAR2026 conference.

The conference organizers are grateful for EIASM and especially Cristina Setyar and Pavlos Dimitrakos for their support and work until March 2026. These efforts are hereby acknowledged, and the organizers and Tampere University congress office proudly and gratefully puts forward the MSAR 2026 Tampere implementation.