Victor S. Maas

University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School

Spui 21

Amsterdam, 1018 WB

Netherlands

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Scholarly Papers (22)

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How CFO's Determine Management Accounting Innovation: An Examination of Direct and Indirect Effects

European Accounting Review, Vol.18, No. 4, pp. 667-695
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 10 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Pablo de Olavide University, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and Radboud University Nijmegen - Institute for Management Research
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Management accounting innovation, management accounting change, upper echelon theory, strategy, performance, balanced scorecard, activity-based costing, benchmarking, healthcare industry, hospitals

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Disclosure Checklists and Auditors’ Judgments of Aggressive Accounting

European Accounting Review (2018), Vol. 27, No. 2, 383-399.
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2020
Marcel Van Rinsum, Victor S. Maas and David Stolker
RSM Erasmus University, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and Independent
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checklist; auditor independence; pro-client bias; audit judgment; aggressive accounting

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Selective Attention as a Determinant of Escalation Bias in Subjective Performance Evaluation Judgments

Behavioral Research in Accounting, 32(1), 87-100
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2020
Stephan Kramer and Victor S. Maas
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School
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Performance evaluation, Performance appraisal, Escalation of commitment, Eye-tracking, Balanced scorecard

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How Control System Design Influences Performance Misreporting

Forthcoming in Journal of Accounting Research
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2014
Victor S. Maas and Marcel Van Rinsum
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and RSM Erasmus University
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performance measurement, data manipulation, incentives, information policies, social preferences, social norms, honesty, lying aversion.

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Subjective Performance Evaluation and Gender Discrimination

Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Jan 2011
Victor S. Maas and Raquel Torres González
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Performance Appraisal, Subjectivity, Gender, Sex Bias

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The Effects of Uncertainty on the Roles of Controllers and Budgets: An Exploratory Study

Accounting and Business Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2013
Frank G. H. Hartmann and Victor S. Maas
Radboud University Nijmegen - Institute for Management Research and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School
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Budgeting, Controllers, Management accounting, Uncertainty

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Promote Internally or Hire Externally? The Role of Trust, Reciprocity, and Performance Measurement Precision

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 May 2021
Eric W. Chan, Jeremy B. Lill and Victor S. Maas
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Accounting, University of Kansas and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School
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Promotion, Trust, Reciprocity, Performance Measurement

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Using Large Language Models to Explore Contextualization Effects in Economics-Based Accounting Experiments

Number of pages: 127 Posted: 17 Jul 2024 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2025
Fikir W. Edossa, Joachim Gassen and Victor S. Maas
Humboldt University of Berlin - School of Business and Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin - School of Business and Economics and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School
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Framing, Large Language Models, Experiments, Games, Contextualization

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Relative Performance Information, Rank Ordering and Employee Performance: A Research Note

Management Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2016
Stephan Kramer, Victor S. Maas and Marcel Van Rinsum
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and RSM Erasmus University
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Experiment, Performance, Ranking, Relative performance information, Social comparison, Status incentives.

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How Control System Design Affects Performance Evaluation Compression: The Role of Information Accuracy and Outcome Transparency

Accounting, Organizations and Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2016
Jasmijn C. Bol, Stephan Kramer and Victor S. Maas
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School
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subjective performance evaluation, performance measurement, information accuracy, transparency, compression

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Finding Partners in Crime? How Internal Transparency Affects Employee Collusion

AAA 2018 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 16 May 2022
Victor S. Maas and Huaxiang Yin
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University
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Anticipation of reciprocity; Collusion; Internal transparency; Reciprocity

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The Effects of Performance Report Layout on Managers’ Subjective Evaluation Judgments

Accounting and Business Research, 47(7), 731-751.
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2020
Victor S. Maas and Niels Verdoorn
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and DRV Corporate Finance
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subjective performance evaluation, leniency, compression, presentation format, performance report layout, balanced scorecard

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Navigating Through the Noise: The Effect of Color-Coded Performance Feedback on Decision Making

Forthcoming in Contemporary Accounting Research
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Feb 2024
Eddy Cardinaels, Stephan Kramer and Victor S. Maas
Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School
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Color coding, Feedback, Learning, Noise, Performance measurement

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Designing Scenario-Based Experiments: Does the Use of Third-Person Framing of Vignettes and Questions Reduce Social Desirability Bias?

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Jun 2024
Victor S. Maas and Bei Shi
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School
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social desirability bias, vignette framing, question framing, moral sensitivity

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Is it Better to be Loved or Feared? The Effects of Manager Kindness and Reward Discretion on Employee Effort

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 05 Dec 2024
Victor S. Maas, Huaxiang Yin and Joel Wenæs Berge
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University and NHH Norwegian School of Economics - Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law
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Kindness, Discretion, Performance Evaluation, Effort, Personality

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The Role of Performance Transparency and Monetary Rewards in Task Assignment Decisions of Managers

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2022
Anil Kshatriya and Victor S. Maas
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School

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task assignment, relative performance information, performance transparency, monetary rewards, fairness perceptions

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The Effects of Relative Ability and Target Difficulty on Delegation Decisions

Posted: 03 Sep 2021
Victor S. Maas and Bei Shi
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School

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Ability, Delegation, Incentives, Target difficulty, Target setting

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How Control System Design Influences Performance Misreporting

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 51, No. 5, 2013
Posted: 28 Nov 2013
Victor S. Maas and Marcel Van Rinsum
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and RSM Erasmus University

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performance measurement, data manipulation, incentives, information policies, social preferences, social norms, honesty, lying aversion

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Are Permanent and Temporary Management Accountants Equally Likely to Manage Earnings? Evidence from the Netherlands

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2013
Victor S. Maas, Marcel Van Rinsum and Nico Veerman
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School, RSM Erasmus University and Independent

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Earnings management, management accountants, Ethical ideology, Professional commitment, Temporary work

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In Search of Informed Discretion: An Experimental Investigation of Fairness and Trust Reciprocity

Accounting Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, 2012
Posted: 11 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2011
Victor S. Maas, Marcel Van Rinsum and Kristy L. Towry
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School, RSM Erasmus University and Emory University

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subjective performance evaluation, incentive contracting, discretion, reciprocity, fairness, trust, third-party intervention

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Why Business Unit Controllers Create Budget Slack: Involvement in Management, Social Pressure and Machiavellianism

Behavioral Research in Accounting, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 27-49
Posted: 15 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2013
Frank G. H. Hartmann and Victor S. Maas
Radboud University Nijmegen - Institute for Management Research and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School

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Controllers, budget slack, ethics, social pressure, conflict of interest, Machiavellianism

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Balancing the Dual Responsibilities of Business Unit Controllers: Field and Survey Evidence

Accounting Review, Vol. 84, No. 4, 2009
Posted: 15 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2013
Victor S. Maas and Michal Matejka
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and Arizona State University

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Controllers, management accountants, role conflict, role ambiguity, earnings management, budgeting

Other Papers (1)

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The Effects of Group Incentives and Transparency on Managers' Strategic Promotion Behavior

Posted: 14 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2020
Gary Hecht, Victor S. Maas and Marcel Van Rinsum
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School and RSM Erasmus University

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Promotion, Performance Evaluation, Transparency, Incentives, Strategic Behavior