Competitive Manuscript Award Committee | American Accounting Association

Nominations Deadline: January 31 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time

Charge

Carry out all activities to determine recipients of the Competitive Manuscript Award. Specifically:

Actively seek and submit nominations
Review and evaluate nominations
Current Committee members who are nominated for the award will be asked to either recuse themselves from the Committee or remove their nomination from consideration.
All nominees nominated for a given year’s award – who are not selected for that year’s award – will be automatically considered for the award for the following two (2) years – as long as he/she meets the PhD criteria requirements (see award criteria for details) and the nominated manuscript has not been previously published or submitted for publication to journals other than The Accounting Review before the nomination deadline of January 31. Nominees who were not selected for the 2019 AAA Competitive Manuscript Award will be considered during the selection process for the 2020 Award and, if not chosen for the 2020 Award, will also be considered for the 2021 Award. At the end of the selection process for the 2021 Award, if a qualified nominee has not been chosen as the award recipient or has not been re-nominated, he/she will no longer be considered for the award.
Select up to three recipients of the award based on the award criteria, observing subject matter interest, depth of research, contribution to knowledge, and organization of subject matter
Chair presents the Award(s) at the AAA Annual Meeting
If the Chair has any questions about the charge or responsibilities of this committee, s/he should contact the Executive Director, the President, or the Committee's Board of Directors Liaison.

Members

Name / Affiliation	Contact	Term Length	Term Expires
Chair
Kristina Rennekamp Cornell University	kmr52@cornell.edu	1	08/2020
Members
Samuel Bonsall The Pennsylvania State University	sbb151@psu.edu	1	08/2020
Angela Gore George Washington University	agore@gwu.edu	1	08/2020
Rick Hatfield The University of Alabama	rhatfiel@cba.ua.edu	1	08/2020
Christine Petrovits The College of William & Mary	Christine.Petrovits@mason.wm.edu	1	08/2020
Jane Thayer University of Virginia	jmt4dd@comm.virginia.edu	1	08/2020
Greg Waymire Emory University	gregory.waymire@emory.edu	1	08/2020
Board of Directors Liaison
Mark DeFond University of Southern California Vice President–Research & Publications	defond@marshall.usc.edu

Expected Time Commitment

September 1 – January 31 – Actively seek and submit nominations
February 15 – April 15 – Review nominations, participate on conference calls and email discussions at the discretion of the Chair, and select up to three recipients
August – Chair presents the award(s) at the AAA Annual Meeting

Roles & Responsibilities Timeline

Chair and Committee Members Responsibilities

September - January 31	February 15 - April 15	June	August
Actively seek and submit nominations	Review nominations, participate on conference calls and email discussions, at the discretion of the Chair Chair is allowed to vote in the award committee's deliberations. Select up to three award recipients based on award criteria Chair notifies the Professional Staff Liaison of the winner(s) by April 15th at barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org	The Chair will have the opportunity to prepare and send a progress report in June which will be available for the Board of Directors to review at their August meeting. This report should include accomplishments and suggested modifications and should be sent to the AAA President, the Committee's Board of Directors Liaison, and Professional Staff Liaison, Barbara Gutierrez. (barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org)	Chair presents the award(s) at the AAA Annual Meeting

AAA Professional Staff Responsibilities

Questions? Please contact Barbara Gutierrez, Professional Staff Liaison, at barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org or 941-556-4117

Committee Composition/Required Knowledge and Expertise

Five or six members plus a voting Chair are appointed annually by the Council Committee on Awards Committee.
Care should be taken that the Committee include members with a range of expertise, who are knowledgeable about exceptional, current accounting research,
And to be sure the Committee includes one member knowledgeable in the field of quantitative analysis and another knowledgeable in behavioral science.