Advances in Management Accounting

Volume 34 of Advances in Management Accounting uses a variety of methods, from experiments to surveys, to build upon existing knowledge within the management accounting discipline. Containing a diverse range of authors from Australia, China, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, this theoretically sound and practical research has a cutting-edge, wide-reaching appeal. Showcasing chapters on performance measurement, management control, incentive compensation and budgeting, this edited collection appeals particularly to management accountants in practice, analysing topics such as the effects that narcissism, psychological pressure, honesty, fairness, service quality and corporate social responsibility have on both performance and the roles of management accountants. Advances in Management Accounting (AMA) publishes thought-provoking volumes that advance knowledge in the management accounting discipline and are of interest to both academics and practitioners. The series seeks thoughtful, well -developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting, broadly defined. All research methods including survey research, field tests, corporate case studies, experiments, meta-analyses, and modeling are welcome.

Chapter 1. Adaptive narcissism, maladaptive narcissism, and the effectiveness of managerial incentives; Kelsey Kay Dworkis and S. Mark Young Chapter 2. The effect of using competition to induce employee effort on employee cooperation in multitask job environments; Bernhard E. Reichert and Matthias Sohn Chapter 3. Transportation quality, customer satisfaction and financial performance; Belaynesh Teklay, Kevin E. Dow, Davood Askarany, Jeffrey Wong, and Yun Shen Chapter 4. The corporate social responsibility disclosure-action portrayal gap: The influence of management control systems and the association with organisational performance; Kevin Baird, Amy Tung, and April Moses Chapter 5. How pervasive is the business decision-making involvement of management accountants and what factors influence this involvement?; Zacharias Enslin, John H. Hall, and Elda du Toit Chapter 6. The impact of the emphasis on budgets and budget difficulty on budget value and job stress: The mediating role of organisational fairness; Sophia Su and Kevin Baird Chapter 7. Peer influence on managerial honesty: The moderating role of earnings position; Chaoping Li and Andrea Drake Chapter 8. Can honesty reminders reduce dishonesty in budgetary slack?; Wilfred W. H. Cheng, Chee Yeow Lim, and Katherine C. K. Yuen

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Chris Akroyd is Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His primary research areas include management accounting and control systems with a focus on product innovation, social and environmental sustainability, and entrepreneurial firms. His research has appeared in Management Accounting Research, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting & Finance and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management. He is the Series Editor of Advances in Management Accounting.