Management Accountants’ Business Orientation and Involvement in Incentive Compensation: Empirical Results from a Cross-Sectional Survey
ISBN: 9783631751466
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Peter Lang AG
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Management & Organizational Behavior;

Changing roles of management accountants have been intensively discussed in business practice and academic research. The objective of this empirical study is to gain a deeper understanding of management accountants' business orientation and extended tasks. Based on data collected from the top 1,500 companies in Germany, results reveal that especially subjective norms have a strong impact on the practice of management accountants acting business-oriented. Furthermore, the results reinforce the frequently postulated positive effect of management accountants' business orientation. The analyses also show positive associations between the involvement of management accountants in incentive compensation, the effort effects of incentive schemes, and firm performance.

Sebastian Wolf studied Business Administration at the University of Giessen (Germany) and Karlstad University (Sweden). He worked as a management consultant before conducting the underlying research of this book.

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