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Kenneth Merchant

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#34

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Kenneth Merchant's Degrees

PhD Accounting University of California, Berkeley
Masters Accounting University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Accounting University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Merchant holds the Deloitte and Touche LLP Chair of Accountancy at the Leventhal School of Accounting, part of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is the former dean of the Leventhal School.

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Kenneth Merchant's Published Works

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Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives (2003) (771)
Control in business organizations (1987) (470)
The design of organizations (1990) (467)
Determinants and Effects of Subjectivity in Incentives (2004) (466)
Accounting for Management Control (1990) (383)
The achievability of budget targets in profit centers: a field study (1989) (374)
A review of the literature on control and accountability (2006) (371)
BUDGETING AND THE PROPENSITY TO CREATE BUDGETARY SLACK (1985) (344)
The effects of financial controls on data manipulation and management Myopia (1990) (316)
Influences on departmental budgeting: an empirical examination of a contingency model (1984) (312)
The Dangerous Morality of Managing Earnings (1990) (292)
The control function of management. (1982) (291)
The ethics of managing earnings: An empirical investigation (1994) (284)
Rewarding results : motivating profit center managers (1989) (259)
Modern Management Control Systems: Text and Cases (1997) (259)
Field Research in Management Accounting and Control: A Review and Evaluation (1992) (241)
Disciplinary constraints on the advancement of knowledge: the case of organizational incentive systems (2003) (218)
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROLS AND DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM DECISION MAKING: A FIELD STUDY. (1985) (192)
The Use of Organizational Controls and their Effects on Data Manipulation and Management Myopia: A J (1996) (188)
Control of international joint ventures (2000) (180)
The Budgetary And Performance Influences Of Product Standardization And Manufacturing Process Automation (1990) (144)
Accounting, text and cases (1989) (143)
Measurement, evaluation and reward of profit center managers: A cross-cultural field study (1995) (135)
Field‐Based Research in Accounting: Accomplishments and Prospects (2006) (127)
Paradigms in accounting research: A view from North America (2010) (112)
Earnings Targets and Annual Bonus Incentives (2014) (104)
Controller involvement in management: an empirical study in large Italian corporations (2007) (102)
management control systems. Performance measurement, evaluation and incentives, second edition (2007) (99)
National differences in incentive compensation practices: The differing roles of financial performance measurement in the United States and the Netherlands (2009) (95)
Measuring general managers' performances (2006) (93)
Research and Control in Complex Organizations: An Overview (1986) (86)
Readings in accounting for management control (1992) (81)
Making management accounting research more useful (2012) (76)
Performance Measure Properties and Incentive System Design (2009) (76)
Why interdisciplinary accounting research tends not to impact most North American academic accountants (2008) (71)
Employment Horizon and the Choice of Performance Measures: Empirical Evidence from Annual Bonus Plans of Loss-Making Entities (2009) (68)
Management control systems (2016) (67)
On Testing Business Models (2011) (64)
Progressing toward a Theory of Marketing Control: A Comment (1988) (60)
Performance Measurement and Incentive Compensation: An Empirical Analysis and Comparison of Chinese and Western Firms' Practices (2011) (42)
Fraudulent and Questionable Financial Reporting: A Corporate Perspective (1987) (34)
Measurements to cure management myopia (1986) (33)
Accounting for decision making (1990) (29)
Performance Measure Properties and Incentives (2004) (28)
The Effect of Measurement Timing on the Information Content of Customer Satisfaction Measures (2014) (26)
Beyond the systems versus package debate (2020) (22)
With a little help from our friends: An empirical investigation of co-authoring in accounting research (2016) (17)
Target costing and incentive compensation (2005) (17)
Linking the Ethics and Management Control Literatures (2017) (16)
The Benefits of Evaluating Performance Subjectively (2005) (15)
Accounting aggregation: User preferences and decision making (1979) (14)
Setting Financial Performance Thresholds, Targets, and Maximums in Bonus Plans (2018) (12)
Blind Spots, Biases, and Other Pathologies in the Boardroom (2010) (12)
Four Options for Measuring Value Creation (2009) (12)
Management control systems: performance measurement, evaluation and incentives / Kenneth A. Merchant, Wim A. Van der Stede (2007) (12)
An Empirical Investigation of Beyond Budgeting Practices (2020) (12)
Looking Back, Looking Forward (2013) (11)
Performance-based management incentives at the Fiat Group: a field study (1990) (11)
Relationships between Objective and Subjective Performance Ratings (2010) (9)
Evaluating General Managers, Performances (2007) (9)
Firms’ Commitment to Mitigate the Ratchet Effect under Annual Bonus Plans with Multiple Performance Measures (2012) (9)
Performance-Dependent Incentives: Some Puzzles to Ponder (2010) (8)
ERM: Where to Go from Here: Why New Tools Are Needed to Help Companies Properly Assess Risks and Opportunities (2012) (7)
Principles to guide the development and use of effective performance measures (2006) (6)
Performance Measurement and Evaluation Practices in Loss-Making Entities: Field and Survey Evidence (2005) (5)
Four Options for Measuring Value Creation: Strategies for Managers to Avoid Potential Flaws in Accounting Measures of Performance (2009) (3)
Performance Measure Choice and Target Setting in Loss-Making Firms (2005) (3)
The Anatomy of a Complex Performance-Dependent Incentive System (2015) (3)
Causes and Effects of Subjectivity in Incentives (2002) (2)
The effects of salary and human resource accounting disclosures on small group relations and performance (1977) (2)
Motivating Innovation and Creativity: The Role of Management Controls (2020) (1)
Relationships Between Performance Evaluation Elements (2012) (1)
Putting Business Models under the Microscope (2011) (1)
The capital investment decision in the multidivisional company (1990) (1)
To Know or Not to Know: Stock Market Implications of Firms with Superior Knowledge Management (2009) (1)
CEO Renown and Its Impact on CEO Pay (2013) (1)
Accounting for management control : teachers' manual (1991) (1)
A Closer Look: Is Customer Satisfaction a Reliable Predictor of Future Financial Performance? (2005) (1)
THE STRUCTURE OF INCENTIVE CONTRACTS : EVIDENCE FROM AUTO DEALERSHIPS 1 (2001) (1)
A Test of a Company's Business Model (2010) (1)
Management control case studies (1990) (1)
Target Costing and Incentive Compensation: Contrasting Chinese and Japanese Systems (2005) (0)
McMullen and Worby (A) (Abridged) TN (1998) (0)
International Harvester: Purchasing Inflation Offset System (1981) (0)
Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc. (1987) (0)
Puente hills Toyota (2007) (0)
Controls in business organizations (1990) (0)
Global Investors Teaching Note (2007) (0)
Provigo Inc. (A), (B) and (C): teaching note (2002) (0)
The Design and Effects of a Long-Term Performance Plan (2011) (0)
Author ' s personal copy National differences in incentive compensation practices : The differing roles of financial performance measurement in the United States and the Netherlands q (2008) (0)
Working Paper Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Leadership Behavior, Budgetary Participation and Performance Leadership Behavior, Budgetary Participation and Performance (2008) (0)
Invasion of the Mold, a Diagnostic Dilemma (2020) (0)
Rohm and Haas (A), Teaching Note (1997) (0)
Natomas North America TN (1997) (0)
Accounting for organizational control (1990) (0)
Target Ratcheting in Common and Unique Performance Measures (2017) (0)
Individual motivation and incentives (1990) (0)
Budgetary planning and control (1990) (0)
ARE ALL NONFINANCIAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES CREATED EQUAL? (2007) (0)
Disctech, Inc., Teaching Note (1997) (0)
ARE ALL NONFINANCIAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES CREATED EQUAL? (2007) (0)
Ciba-Geigy (A-4) (2002) (0)
Ciba-geigy (A-3) (2002) (0)
Malea Fashion District: A New Way to Learn Managerial Accounting (2010) (0)
Instructor's Manual: Accounting Text and Cases (1998) (0)
Shell Brasil S.A.: Performance Evaluation in the Oil Products Division TN (1998) (0)
Provigo Inc. (A): management incentives for superior performance (2002) (0)
G.A. Kleissler Co., Teaching Note (1997) (0)
Beheersing van internationale joint ventures (2001) (0)
Ciba-Geigy (A-1) (2002) (0)
Interdependence and transfer pricing (1990) (0)
Incentive System Design When Earnings Congruence is Low (2020) (0)
Graves Industries, Inc. TN (1997) (0)
Case Study: Real-World Problems Tackled (2006) (0)
The Management Control Function@@@Accounting from the outside: The Collected Papers of Anthony G. Hopwood@@@Measures for Manufacturing Excellence@@@Rewarding Results: Motivating Profit Center Managers (1991) (0)
Provigo, Inc. TN (1998) (0)
Provigo Inc. (B): issues surrounding target setting and use of discretion in performance evaluations (2002) (0)
Macon Prestressed Concrete Co., Inc. (A, B, & C Condensed), Teaching Note (1997) (0)
Sidney McCallum (2018) (0)
Performance Target Revisions under Annual Bonus Plans with Multiple Performance Measures (2015) (0)
Incident at Waco Manufacturing, The TN (1998) (0)
Performance measurement and evaluation (1990) (0)
Graves Industries, Inc. (1996) (0)
Technical Matters: Customer satisfaction (Which Customer Satisfaction Measures Best Predict Future Success (or Failure?)) (2009) (0)
The management of business enterprises (1990) (0)
Rewarding managerial performance (1990) (0)
Natomas North America (1996) (0)
Roy Rogers Restaurants TN (1998) (0)
Corporate Governance of Non-listed Companies – By Joseph A. McCahery and Erik P. M. Vermeulen (2009) (0)
Corporate Governance Failures: The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis – Edited by Hawley, James P., S. J. Kamath and A. T. Williams (2011) (0)
National Differences in Performance-Dependent Compensation Practices:The United States Vs. The Netherlands (2007) (0)
Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard TN (1998) (0)
Planning and control in a complex and uncertain world (1990) (0)
Malea Fashion District: A New Way to Learn Managerial Accounting Antonio Davila and Daniel Oyon (2011) (0)
Metric intensity and innovation dependency † (2023) (0)
Leadership Behavior, Budgetary Participation and Performance (2011) (0)
Performance Measurement (2011) (0)
IZA DP No . 1356 Performance Measure Properties and Incentives (0)
CIBA-GEIGY (A), Teaching Note (1997) (0)
Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc., Teaching Note (1990) (0)
Del Norte Paper Co. (A) TN (1998) (0)

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