Journal of Management Accounting Research Best Paper Award
Purpose: To recognize an outstanding paper published in the Journal of Management Accounting Research. The author(s) of the winning paper will receive a plaque and $2,000.
Eligibility: Papers eligible for the award must have been published in JMAR in the last three years. Thus, for the 2025 award, the paper must have been published in JMAR in the 2023, 2024 or 2025 issues.
Winners do not have to be members of the AAA MAS Section to receive the plaque but must be Section members to receive the cash prize.
Award Committee and Nomination Instructions: By September 1, 2025, email the nomination and a statement of the reasons the paper should be considered for the Award to the Chair of the Publications Committee, Markus Arnold , University of Bern, (markus.arnold@unibe.ch(). Nominations will be evaluated by the Publications Committee.
Presentation of Award: The 2025 Award will be presented at the Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting to be held in January 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior winners of the Award are listed on the AAA MAS website https://aaahq.org/MAS/Awards/Paper.
Journal of Management Accounting (JMAR) Best Paper Award Prior Recipients
Note: Awards were presented at the Midyear Meeting for the subsequent year – e.g., the 2017 award was presented at the 2018 Midyear Meeting| 2024 | Peter Kroos, Mario Schabus, Frank Verbeeten. “The relation between internal forecasting sophistication and accounting misreporting". (JMAR, 2022). Selection Committee: Martine Cools (Chair), Victor van Pelt, Axel Schulz, Jee-Eun Shin, Beatrice Michaeli, Josep Bisbe | |
| 2023 | Clara Xiaoling Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ryan Hudgins, Earlham College, William F. Wright, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - "The Effect of Advice Valence on the Perceived Credibility of Data Analytics", Journal of Management Accounting Research (2022) 34 (2): 97-116 | |
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2022 |
W. Timothy Mitchell, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Adam Presslee, University of Waterloo, Azel Schulz, La Trobe University, Alan Webb, University of Waterloo"Needs Versus Wants: The Mental Accounting and Effort Effects of Tangible Rewards" Journal of Management Accounting Research 34 (1): 187-207 | |
| 2021 |
Leslie Berger, Wilfrid Laurier University, Krista Fiolleau, University of Waterlo, and Carolyn MacTavish, Wilfrid Laurier University. "I Know Something You Don’t Know: The Effect of Relative Performance Information and Individual Performance Incentives on Knowledge Sharing”, Journal of Management Accounting Research (2019) 31 (2): 19–35. |
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| 2020 | James W. Hesford, Nicolas Mangin, and Mina Pizzini, "Using Fixed Wages for Management Control: An Intra-firm Test of the Effect of Relative Wages on Performance," JMAR, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2020), pp. 137–154. | |
| 2019 | Kenneth A. Merchant, Carolyn Stringer, and Paul Shantapriyan, "Setting Financial Performance Thresholds, Targets, and Maximums in Bonus Plans," JMAR, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2018), pp. 55–73. | |
| 2018 | Ella Mae Matsumura and Jason Schloetzer, "The Structural and Executional Components of Customer Concentration: Implications for Supplier Performance," JMAR, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2018), pp. 185–202. | |
| 2017 | Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V. G. Narayanan. "Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24," JMAR, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2015), pp. 39‐65. | |
| 2016 | Clara Xiaoling Chen, Shimin Chen, Fei Pan, and Yue Wang. "Determinants and Consequences of Transfer Pricing Autonomy: An Empirical Investigation," JMAR, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2015), pp. 225–259. | |
| 2015 | Mark Bagnoli and Susan G. Watts. "Knowing versus Telling Private Information about a Rival," JMAR, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2013), pp. 35–57. | |
| 2014 | Shane S. Dikolli, Susan L. Kulp, and Karen L. Sedatole. "The Use of Contract Adjustments to Lengthen the CEO Horizon in the Presence of Internal and External Monitoring," JMAR, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2013): pp. 199–229. Chaur-Shiuh Young, Chih-Wei Peng, Chin-Chen Chien, and Liu-Ching Tsai. "Does SFAS No. 152 Trigger More Overproduction?" JMAR, Vol 26, No. 1 (2014), pp. 121–143. |
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| 2013 | S. Jane Jollineau, Thomas W. Vance, and Alan Webb. "Subordinates as the First Line of Defense against Biased Financial Reporting," JMAR, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2012), pp. 1–24. Ge Bai, Freddy Coronado, and Ranjani Krishnan. 2010. "The Role of Performance Measure Noise in Mediating the Relation between Task Complexity and Outsourcing," JMAR, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2010), pp. 75–102. |
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| 2012 | John Harry Evans III, Kyonghee Kim, Nandu J. Nagarajan, and Sukesh Patro. 2010. "Nonfinancial Performance Measures and Physician Compensation", Journal of Management Accounting Research 22(1): 31-561 | |
| 2011 | Shane S. Dikolli, Christian Hofmann, and Susan L. Kulp. 2009. "Interrelated Performance Measures, Interactive Effort, and Incentive Weights", Journal of Management Accounting Research 21(1): 125-149. | |
| 2010 | Martine Cools and Regine Slagmulder. 2009. "Tax-Compliant Transfer Pricing and Responsibility Accounting", Journal of Management Accounting Research 21(1): 151-178 | |
| 2009 | Ramji Balakrishnan, Naomi S. Soderstrom, and Timothy D. West. 2007. "Spending Patterns with Lapsing Budgets: Evidence from U.S. Army Hospitals", Journal of Management Accounting Research 19(1): 1-23 | |
| 2008 | Alexander Brüggen and Frank Moers. 2007 "The Role of Financial Incentives and Social Incentives in Multi-Task Settings", Journal of Management Accounting Research" 19(1): 25-50 | |
| 2007 | Brian Mittendorf. 2006. "Capital Budgeting when Managers Value both Honesty and Perquisites", Journal of Management Accounting Research 18(1): 77-95 | |
| 2006 | Eddy Cardinaels, Filip Roodhooft, and Luk Warlop. 2004. "The Value of Activity-Based Costing in Competitive Pricing Decisions" Journal of Management Accounting Research 16(1): 133-148 | |
| 2005 | Rodney E. Smith and William F. Wright. 2004. "Determinants of Customer Loyalty and Financial Performance" Journal of Management Accounting Research 16(1): 183-205 | |
| 2004 | Rajiv D. Banker and Stephen C. Hansen. 2002. "The Adequacy of Full-Cost-Based Pricing Heuristics", Journal of Management Accounting Research 14(1): 33-58 | |
| 2003 | Mark A. Covaleski, John H. Evans III, Joan L. Luft, and Michael D. Shields. 2003. "Budgeting Research: Three Theoretical Perspecitves and Criteria for Selective Integration", Journal of Management Accounting Research 15(1): 3-49 | |
| 2002 | Ramji Balakrishnan and K. Sivaramakrishnan. 2002. "A Critical Overview of the Use of Full-Cost Data for Planning and Pricing", Journal of Management Accounting Research 14(1): 3-31 |
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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.