Best Management Accounting Paper - Annual Meeting
Purpose: To recognize superior scholarship, the Section will present a Best Paper Award for the AAA Annual Meeting. The author(s) of the winning paper receive a plaque and $2,000. The award is generously sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
Eligibility and Selection Procedure: Papers submitted to the Annual Meeting are eligible for consideration for the Award. A Committee made up of a Chair and Section members will select the recipient.
Winners do not have to be members of the AAA MAS to receive the plaque but must be members to receive the cash prize.
Presentation of the Award: A Plaque(s) will be presented to the winning author(s) at the Management Accounting Section Luncheon at the Annual Meeting.
This award generously sponsored by the IMA
Best Management Accounting Paper-Annual Meeting Recipients
| 2025 | Martin Artz, Jens Böke, Martin Holzhacker, Michal Matejka, "Incentive and Sorting Effects of Challenging Performance Targets: Evidence from the Field" | |
| 2024 | Febrizio Ferri, University of Miami, Zeyu Ou, University of Miami, Yini Wang, Loyola Marymount University, "Searching for Directors" | |
| 2023 | Jeffrey Ng, Longfei Shang, Sterling Huang and Walid Saffar, "Pay Transparency and Cost Stickiness: Evidence from the Passage of State Pay Transparency Laws" | |
| 2022 | Markus Arnold, Kai Bauch, and Eric Chan, "Ignorance is Bliss: Effects of Real Earnings Management by Rank-and-File and the Role of Managers" | |
| 2021 | Markus Brunner and Julia Holzmann; Felix Fritsch, Matthias Mahlendorf, and Utz Schäffer, "The Effects of Uncertainty in Tournaments on Sabotage and Effort"; "When Opportunism Mitigates Over-Expectations—Budgeting Biases and Profit Expectations" | |
| 2020 | Jason Brown, Patrick Martin, Geoffrey Sprinkle and Dan Way, "The Effect of Performance Measures on Risk in Capital Investment Decisions" | |
| 2019 | Jonas Heese and Perez Cavazos, "The Effect of Monitoring of Management on Corporate Misconduct" | |
| 2018 | Arthur Morris, "The Relationships Between Risky Projects, Convex Compensation, and Project Selection: evidence from the War on Terror" | |
| 2017 | Andrea Pawliczek, "The Effect of Performance Shares on Executive Incentives" | |
| 2016 | Drew Newman, Ivo Tafkov, and Flora Zhou, "The Effect of Incentive Scheme and Task Type on Psychological Entitlement and Altruistic Behavior" |
Journal
Journal of Management Accounting Research
The mission of the Journal of Management Accounting Research (JMAR) is to advance the theory and practice of management accounting through publication of high-quality applied and theoretical research, using any well-executed research method. JMAR serves the global community of scholars and practitioners whose work impacts or is informed by the role that accounting information plays in decision-making and performance measurement within organizations.