Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award
Sponsored by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
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Purpose: This Award recognizes the single research article that is judged to have the greatest potential impact on managerial accounting practice. The author(s) of the winning research article will receive a plaque and $2,000. The Award is generously sponsored by the AICPA & CIMA.
Eligibility: The research article must have been published within the past five years. For the 2026 award, the paper must have been published between August 1, 2020 and July 31, 2025.
The author(s) of the winning research article must be member(s) of the AAA Management Accounting Section at the time of the award.
Award Committee and Nomination Instructions: The research article may be submitted by the author(s) or by others and should be accompanied by a short statement stating reasons why it should be considered for the award.
By September 1, 2025, email the research article and statement to the Chair of the Award Committee, Jason Schloetzer( Jason.Schloetzer@georgetown.edu ). The selection committee will be composed of practitioner representatives nominated by the sponsoring organizations (AICPA and CIMA) and an academic representing the MAS.
Presentation of Award: The award will be presented at the Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting in January 2026.
Impact on Management Accounting Practice Recipients
| 2025 | Devon Erickson, D. Kip Holderness Jr., Kari Joseph Olsen, Todd A. Thornock. “Feedback with feeling? How emotional language in feedback affects individual performance” (Accounting, Organizations & Society, 2022). Selection Committee: Bill Tayler (Chair), Ken Witt (AICPA-CIMA), Jacky Pfennig (AICPA-CIMA) | |
| 2024 | Romana Autrey, University of Waterloo, Tim Bauer, University of Waterloo, Kevin Jackson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Elena Klevsky, University of New Mexico, " Deploying "Connectors": A Control to Manage Employee Turnover Intentions? Accounting, Organizations and Society" Volume 79, November 2019, 101059 | |
| 2023 | Olena, Mavropulo, Marc Steffen Rapp and Iuliia A. Udoieva, of Philipps-Universitat Marburg "Value-based Management Control Systems and the Dynamics of Working Capital: Empirical Evidence", Management Accounting Research 52 (2021) | |
| 2022 | Not awarded in 2022 | |
| 2021 | Ken Merchant, Carolyn Stringer, and Paul Shantapriyan "Setting Financial Performance Thresholds, Targets, and Maximums in Bonus Plans", Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2018 James Hesford, Nicolas Mangin, and Mina Pizzini "Using Fixed Wages for Management Control: An Intra-firm Test of the Effect of Relative Compensation on Performance", Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2020 |
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| 2020 | Laura Wang, Steven J. Kachelmeier, Michael G. Williamson, "Incentivizing the Creative Process: From Initial Quantity to Eventual Creativity", The Accounting Review, March 2019 | |
| 2019 | Christopher Inner and Jeremy Michels "Risk‐based forecasting and planning and management earnings forecasts" | |
| 2018 | Mark Young, Fei Du, Kelsey Dworkis, Karl Olsen "It’s All about All of Us: The Rise of Narcissism and Its Implications for Management Control System Research", Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2016 | |
| 2017 | Bryan R. Stikeleather "When do employers benefit from offering workers a financial reward for reporting internal misconduct?" Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2016 | |
| 2016 | Anne Farrell, Susan Krische, Karen Sedatole "Employees’ Subjective Valuations of Their Stock Options: Evidence on the Distribution of Valuations and the Use of Simple Anchors" Contemporary Accounting Research, 2011 | |
| 2015 | Scott Jackson, Timothy Keune, Leigh Salzsieder "Debt, equity, and capital investment" Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2013 | |
| 2014 | Co-Winners Ramji Balakrishnan, Stephen Hansen, Eva Labro "Evaluating heuristics used when designing product costing systems" Management Science, 2011 Jongwoon (Willie) Choi, Gary Hecht, and William Tayler "Lost in translation: The effects of incentive compensation on strategy surrogation" |
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| 2013 | Ramji Balakrishnan, Eva Labro, and K. Sivaramakrishnan "Product costs as decision aids: An analysis of alternative approaches (Parts 1 and 2) Accounting Horizons, 2012 | |
| 2012 | Co-Winners Scott Jackson "The effects of firms’ depreciation method choice on managers’ capital investment decisions" The Accounting Review, 2008 Alexander Bruggen, Ranjani Krishnan, and Karen Sedatole "Drivers and consequences of short-term production decisions" Contemporary Accounting Research, 2011 |
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| 2011 | Eddy Cardinaels and Eva Labro "Measurement error in time-driven costing" The Accounting Review, 2008 | |
| 2010 | Shannon Anderson and Henri Dekker "Management control for market transactions" Management Science, 2005 | |
| 2009 | Janek Ratnatunga, Norman Gray and Kashi Balachandran "Valuation and reporting of strategic capabilities" |
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.