ABO Notable Contribution to Behavioral Accounting Research Award 

Purpose: The purpose of this award is to recognize a journal article, book, monograph, or other scholarly contribution published in the past ten calendar years that has had a significant and lasting impact on behavioral accounting research. The author(s) of the selected work will receive a plaque and $1,000 honorarium.

Criteria: The ABO Awards Committee will consider papers based on originality, innovativeness, contribution to knowledge, and impact or potential impact on other research.

Eligibility: Any work published within the past ten calendar years is eligible for this award (i.e., for the 2026 award, the work must have been published from 2016 to 2025). Current members of the ABO Awards Committee are not eligible for the award.

Nomination Process: Nominations (including self-nominations) should include a brief statement indicating how the work meets the criteria for the award. To nominate a work for the award, nominators should email a copy of the work along with the short statement described above to the Chair of the ABO Awards Committee by the deadline. Nominations that are not selected will be carried forward for the next four subsequent years, assuming they are still within the ten-year eligibility period. The Committee Chair will forward those nominations to the next Chair. 

The Award will be presented during the ABO Research Conference.

Call for Nominations 

The ABO Section is pleased to invite nominations for our new ABO Notable Contribution to Behavioral Accounting Research Award.

The Notable Contribution Award recognizes a journal article, book, monograph, or other scholarly contribution published in the past ten calendar years that has had a significant impact on behavioral accounting research. The author(s) of the selected work will receive a plaque and $1,000 honorarium.

The ABO Awards Committee will consider papers based on originality, innovativeness, contribution to knowledge, and impact or potential impact on other research.

Any work published within the past ten calendar years is eligible for this award (i.e., for the 2026 award, the work must have been published from 2016 to 2025). Current members of the ABO Awards Committee are not eligible for the award.

Nominations (including self-nominations) should include a brief statement indicating how the work meets the criteria for the award. To nominate a work for the award, nominators should email a copy of the work along with the short statement described above to the Chair of the ABO Awards Committee.

The deadline for submitting nominations is May 31. Once nominated, works are considered for four subsequent years, assuming they are still within the ten-year eligibility period.

For 2026 nominations, please send all materials in electronic form to Lori Bhaskar at lbhaskar@iu.edu.

The Award will be presented during the ABO Research Conference.