There is a developing trend to hire temporary accountants and financial managers to fill open positions or to manage specific finance and accounting projects. It is unclear whether this trend poses a threat to the integrity of organizations' accounting data. On the one hand, accountants who are...

This paper investigates reporting honesty when managers have monetary incentives to overstate their performance. We argue that managers who report about their performance will take into account how their report affects their peers (i.e., other managers at the same hierarchical level). This...

We conduct a laboratory experiment to examine whether the provision of detailed relative performance information (i.e., information about the specific performance levels of peers) affects employee performance. We also investigate how – if at all – explicit ranking of performance levels...

This paper investigates managerial discretion in compensation decisions in a team (i.e., joint production) setting. Specifically, we investigate the conditions under which managers tasked with allocating a discretionary bonus pool are willing to incur a personal cost to obtain ex post...

This paper investigates reporting honesty when managers have monetary incentives to overstate their performance. We argue that managers who report about their performance will take into account how their report affects their peers (i.e., other managers at the same hierarchical level). This...