William B. Tayler

Brigham Young University

Associate Professor

Brigham Young University

519 TNRB

Provo, UT 84602

United States

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The Balanced Scorecard as a Strategy-Evaluation Tool: The Effects of Implementation Involvement and a Causal-Chain Focus

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2009
William B. Tayler
Brigham Young University
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balanced scorecard, motivated reasoning, causal chain, business strategy, measure selection, strategic performance measurement system selection

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Compensation or Feedback: Motivating Performance in Multidimensional Tasks

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2015
Margaret H. Christ, Scott A. Emett, William B. Tayler and David A. Wood
University of Georgia - Terry College of Business, Arizona State University (ASU) - School of Accountancy, Brigham Young University and Brigham Young University - School of Accountancy
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Internal Control, Incentives, Compensation, Multidimensional Tasks

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Information Pursuit in Financial-Statement Analysis: Effects of Choice, Effort, and Disaggregation

Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 32-06
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 Jan 2006
Mark W. Nelson and William B. Tayler
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Brigham Young University
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lease, recognition, disclosure, choice, effort, disaggregation, fixation, salience, information weight

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Momentum, Reversal, and Uninformed Traders in Laboratory Markets

Journal of Finance, October 2008
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2009
Robert J. Bloomfield, William B. Tayler and Flora H. Zhou
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Brigham Young University and Bentley University
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Market efficiency, behavioral finance, underreaction, overreaction, anomalies, uninformed traders

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Lost in Translation: The Effects of Incentive Compensation on Strategy Surrogation

AAA 2010 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 26 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2018
Willie Choi, Gary Hecht and William B. Tayler
University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Brigham Young University
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Norms, Conformity, and Controls

AAA 2011 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2010
William B. Tayler and Robert J. Bloomfield
Brigham Young University and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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controls, conformity, social norms, crowding out, public goods

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Margin Trading, Overpricing, and Synchronization Risk

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Margin Trading, Overpricing, and Synchronization Risk

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 Aug 2005
Sanjeev Bhojraj, Robert J. Bloomfield and William B. Tayler
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Brigham Young University
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Market Efficiency, Limits to Arbitrage, Bubbles, Experimental Economics

Margin Trading, Overpricing, and Synchronization Risk

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 2059-2085, 2009
Posted: 13 Apr 2009
Sanjeev Bhojraj, Robert J. Bloomfield and William B. Tayler
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Brigham Young University

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G14, C92

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Controls and the Asymmetric Stickiness of Norms

AAA 2014 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2016
Scott A. Emett, Ronald N. Guymon, William B. Tayler and Donald Young
Arizona State University (ASU) - School of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brigham Young University and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
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Controls, Conformity, Norms, Social Norms, Ethics

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Strategy Selection, Surrogation, and Strategic Performance Measurement Systems

Forthcoming, Journal of Accounting Research
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2012
Willie Choi, Gary Hecht and William B. Tayler
University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Brigham Young University
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strategic performance measurement systems, surrogation, strategy selection, buy-in

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The Effect of Information Choice on Auditors' Judgments and Confidence

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2018
Steve Smith, William B. Tayler and Douglas F. Prawitt
Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University and Brigham Young University
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information pursuit, litigation risk, confidence, experience, consequentiality

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Surrogation Fundamentals: Measurement and Cognition

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2021
Paul Black, Thomas Meservy, William B. Tayler and Jeffrey O. Williams
Auburn University, Brigham Young University - Marriott School, Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University - Department of Accounting
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Surrogation, Measurement, Strategy, Attribute Substitution, Performance Evaluation

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Timing is Everything: Congruence, Controllability, and Performance Measure Weighting

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2023
Hayden T. Gunnell, Gary Hecht, William B. Tayler and Kristy L. Towry
Emory University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brigham Young University and Emory University
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performance evaluation, compensation, subjectivity, discretion, performance measure weighting, timing, congruence, controllability

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Fairness and Luck: Contract Away or Come What May?

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2023
H. Scott Asay, Jace Garrett and William B. Tayler
University of Iowa - Department of Accounting, Clemson University and Brigham Young University
Downloads 199 (291,283)
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contract, fairness, controllability, performance, compensation

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Controls and Cooperation in Interactive and Non-Interactive Settings

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Controls and Cooperation in Interactive and Non-Interactive Settings

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2018
Jace Garrett, Jeffrey A. Livingston and William B. Tayler
Clemson University, Bentley University - Department of Economics and Brigham Young University
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trust, control system, reciprocity, Attribution Theory

Controls and Cooperation in Interactive and Non-Interactive Settings

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 22 Aug 2018
Jace Garrett, Jeffrey A. Livingston and William B. Tayler
Clemson University, Bentley University - Department of Economics and Brigham Young University

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Trust, Controls, Control Systems, Attribution Theory, Reciprocity

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An fMRI Investigation of the Neurocognitive Processing of Measures and Strategic Objectives

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2022
Paul Black, C. Brock Kirwan, Thomas Meservy, William B. Tayler and Jeffrey O. Williams
Auburn University, Brigham Young University - Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University - Marriott School, Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University - Department of Accounting
Downloads 174 (328,651)

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Performance Measurement, Strategic Objective, Surrogation, fMRI, SPMS

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The Effects of a Second-Chance Exam Policy in a Large-Enrollment Introductory Accounting Course

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 11 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 20 May 2024
Melissa Larson, William B. Tayler and Jared R. Stark
Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University and University of Arkansas - Department of Accounting
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Second-chance testing, introductory accounting, assessment

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The Effects of Price Transparency and Prosocial Messaging on Patient Engagement

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Dec 2023
Jace Garrett, Keaton Helquist, Steve Smith and William B. Tayler
Clemson University, Brigham Young University, Students, Brigham Young University and Brigham Young University
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price transparency, prosocial messaging, healthcare costs, patient engagement, decision making, healthcare policy

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Is Your Strategy Evaluation Biased? The Balanced Scorecard May Be the Cause — And the Cure

Strategic Finance 95(11):27-34
Posted: 07 Oct 2015
Scott A. Emett and William B. Tayler
Arizona State University (ASU) - School of Accountancy and Brigham Young University

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Individual Characteristics and the Disposition Effect: The Opposing Effects of Confidence and Self-Regard

Journal of Behavioral Finance, Forthcoming
Posted: 27 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2015
Kathryn Kadous, William B. Tayler, Jane M. Thayer and Donald Young
Emory University - Goizueta Business School, Brigham Young University, Georgia Institute of Technology and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business

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Disposition Effect, Self-Regard, Confidence, Mean Reversion, Self-Esteem