Given the profound effects of financial fraud on corporate managers, inventors, and cultures, this paper investigates how financial fraud influences technological innovation at both firm and inventor levels. We find that the occurrence of financial fraud is negatively related to firms’ and...

This paper contributes to the earlier management accounting literature on the framework of Levers of Control by investigating the role of interactive control systems in competitive dynamics of businesses. More specifically, the study focuses on the interactive use of management control systems...

This paper contributes to the recent levers of control (LOC) literature on the relationships between innovation and management accounting and control systems (MACS) by emphasising the importance of the choice by which individual MACS are selected for interactive use. Using data from a...

This research is concerned with the diffusion of management accounting innovations viewed as a process of actor-network building and translation. The aim is to better understand the nature of accounting change. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we analyze two innovations that have had different...

Provides some theoretical developments on the topic of the performativity of economics.

Empirical research on the consequences of the use of the balanced scorecard (BSC) has mostly been conducted in large firms. Previous findings are not easily applied to the small business literature, and assumptions about the benefits of BSC for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are not...

Cybersecurity threats can exert significant adverse effects on a company's performance, necessitating that stakeholders make an effort to understand the risks related to the companies with which they conduct business. However, since a company's relative exposure to cybersecurity risks is related...

We investigate the effect of patent disclosures on corporate innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act (AIPA) as a shock that increased patent disclosures, we find an increase in innovation for firms whose rivals reveal more information after the AIPA and a decrease in innovation...

Financial ties between drug companies and medical researchers are thought to bias studies published in medical journals. To enable readers to account for such bias, most medical journals require authors to disclose potential conflicts of interest. We examine whether disclosure reduces article...

Running a contest can help managers elicit creative ideas from employees by providing employees with incentives to develop and share ideas that will help the firm. Little is known, however, about how contest design affects the outcomes of subjectively evaluated creativity-based contests. We...