Purpose: This paper aims to study the impact of readability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) information on its credibility as perceived by generalist versus specialist readers. It is hypothesized that the readability-credibility effect will be contingent on reader specialization....

Time estimates are an important part of many costing systems. As they may be subject to estimation error and hence result in measurement error in product and service costs, it is important to understand the sources of this estimation error as well as mechanisms to mitigate them. We performed a...

This case is about Bakery Products International, a family-owned company headquartered in Belgium that produces bakery ingredients. It owns 40 sales subsidiaries around the world that operate as profit centers. The transfer pricing system is based on standard manufacturing cost plus a profit...

This study shows how performance measurement systems (PMSs) perceived as an enabling formalization may enhance managerial performance. Drawing on self-determination theory, we describe the motivational mechanisms that can explain the relationship between enabling performance measurement and...