While managers commonly possess private information regarding future production cost when developing their cost budget, they also face outcome uncertainty regarding that future cost. This outcome uncertainty, however, has largely been ignored by experimental researchers examining various...

This study examines the effects of profit-sharing on honesty in managerial reporting. While profit-sharing plans are widely used, there remains a need for understanding how profit-sharing plans affect honesty in managerial reporting. We investigate two commonly observed profit-sharing plans...

We examine theoretically and experimentally how combining between-team and within-team incentives affects behavior in team tournaments. Theory predicts that free-riding is likely to occur when there are only between-team incentives, and offering within-team incentives may solve this problem....

This study investigates the effect of internal reporting environment openness and organizational identification on managers’ budgetary misreporting. Using an experiment, we find that organizational identification moderates the effect of internal reporting environments on misreporting. That is,...

This study examines the benefits of employee involvement in feedback system design for cooperation. Understanding how to enhance cooperation is important given the increasing use of team settings in practice. Control systems often provide feedback on cooperative actions of coworkers, which can...