Jan Bouwens

Amsterdam Business School

Professor of Accounting

Roetersstraat 11

Amsterdam, 1018 WB

Netherlands

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (24)

1.

The Prevalence and Validity of EBITDA as a Performance Measure

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 May 2018 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2018
Arnt Verriest, Jan Bouwens and Ties de Kok
KU Leuven, Amsterdam Business School and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
Downloads 1,453 (28,960)
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EBITDA Nongaap Measures

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Altruism, Social Norms and Incentive Contract Design

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 27 May 2012 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2021
University of Melbourne, Department of Accounting, Amsterdam Business School, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Business Administration (Munich School of Management) and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Downloads 1,143 (41,218)
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incentive contract; performance measures; social norms; unproductive actions; work climate

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Leadership and Control System Design

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Sep 2009
University of Melbourne, Department of Accounting, Amsterdam Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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leadership style, empowerment, communication, execution, control system use, organization design

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Performance Measure Properties and the Effects of Incentive Contracts

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 May 2006
Jan Bouwens and Laurence van Lent
Amsterdam Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Downloads 795 (68,143)
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incentive pay, effort and selection effects, performance measure properties, cash bonus

5.

Transparency and Biases in Subjective Performance Evaluation

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 72
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2022
Amsterdam Business School, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Business Administration (Munich School of Management) and LMU Munich School of Management
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Subjective Performance Evaluation, Bias, Favoritism, Transparency, Attendance

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What Is the Relationship between Audit Quality and Non-Audit Services? An Overview of the Existing Literature

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 06 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2018
Jan Bouwens
Amsterdam Business School
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Non-audit service, audit, spill over

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Understanding Investment Decisions: The Role of Cost Accounting

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Mar 2017
Jan Bouwens
Amsterdam Business School
Downloads 551 (109,088)

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Strategic costing, Cost structure, Decision making, Business models, Management Accounting

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The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 29 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2012
University of Melbourne, Department of Accounting, Amsterdam Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Downloads 542 (111,437)
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time horizon, performance measures, business unit managers, control systems

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Assessing the Performance of Business Unit Managers

CentER Discussion Paper No. 2006-92
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Oct 2006
Laurence van Lent and Jan Bouwens
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and Amsterdam Business School
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performance measures, business units, managerial performance

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Determinants of Control System Design in Divisionalized Firms

Accounting Review, Vol. 79, No. 3, July 2004
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Feb 2004 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2012
University of Melbourne, Department of Accounting, Amsterdam Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Downloads 377 (170,956)
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Organization design, control system, interdependencies, information asymmetry, performance measures

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Can Centralization Improve the Use of Soft Information? Evidence from a Field Study and Lab Experiment

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 16 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2021
Jan Bouwens and Ties de Kok
Amsterdam Business School and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
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The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination

AAA 2014 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2014
Sara Bormann, Jan Bouwens and Christian Hofmann
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Amsterdam Business School and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Business Administration (Munich School of Management)
Downloads 262 (252,147)

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Specialization, Intra-Firm Coordination, Proximity, Complementarities, Contracting, Business Unit Performance Measurement, Organizational Design

13.

Performance Measures and Intra-Firm Spillovers: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 May 2013
Amsterdam Business School, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Business Administration (Munich School of Management) and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Contracting, Business unit performance measurement, Organizational design, Interdependencies

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Understanding the Cost Structure of a Firm: Balancing Activities and Achieving Economies of Scope

AAA 2016 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2015
Sara Bormann, Jan Bouwens and Christian Hofmann
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Amsterdam Business School and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Business Administration (Munich School of Management)
Downloads 206 (318,846)

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Economies of scale and scope, supermodularity, spillover, organizational structure, imbalance

15.

Decision Intervention: The Effect of Assigned Social Status

AAA 2012 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Aug 2011
Eddy Cardinaels and Jan Bouwens
Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management and Amsterdam Business School
Downloads 144 (436,772)

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organization design, investment decisions, information asymmetry, social status

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The History of Performance: How Franchisor and Franchisees Signal Their Future Actions in Targets and Performance

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 13 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2020
Jan Bouwens, Eddy Cardinaels and Jingwen Zhang
Amsterdam Business School, Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management and Nyenrode Business University
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Target setting, Target ratcheting, Ratchet effect, Target achievement, Relational-contracts theory

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Target setting in hierarchies: The role of middle managers

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2023
Amsterdam Business School, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Business Administration (Munich School of Management) and LMU Munich
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Target setting; hierarchy; supervisor

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Performance metrics that entice agents to consider the long-term firm effect of their actions

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 Jul 2024
Jan Bouwens
Amsterdam Business School
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Management accounting, Sustainability, Intertemporal decision making, Performance metric choice JEL Classifications: M4, M40 and M41

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The relation between Auditors and Auditees: how does the Regulator affect that relation under SOX?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Nov 2024
Jan Bouwens
Amsterdam Business School
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statement on internal controls, Statement IC firm vs. auditor, SOX, AS2 and AS5

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The Interplay between Forward-Looking Measures and Target Setting

Management Science, 2016
Posted: 05 May 2017
Jan Bouwens and Peter Kroos
Amsterdam Business School and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School

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accounting economics, behavior, information, goals, motivation/incentives

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Organization Identity and Earnings Manipulation

Accounting, Organizations and Society, 58 (2017), 1-14
Posted: 05 May 2017 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2017
University of Melbourne, Department of Accounting, Amsterdam Business School and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School

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organization identity, incentives, earnings manipulation

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Target Ratcheting and Effort Reduction

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), 51 (2011), 171-185
Posted: 21 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2017
Jan Bouwens and Peter Kroos
Amsterdam Business School and University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School

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Target Setting, Ratchet Effect

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Full-Cost Transfer Pricing and Cost Management

Jan Bouwens and Bert Steens (2016) Full-Cost Transfer Pricing and Cost Management. Journal of Management Accounting Research: Fall 2016, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 63-81
Posted: 18 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2016
Jan Bouwens and Bert Steens
Amsterdam Business School and VU University

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Management Accounting, Transfer pricing, Full costing, Death spiral, Product life cycle, Cost management

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Performance Measure Properties and the Effect of Incentive Contracts

Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 55-75
Posted: 20 Jun 2006
Jan Bouwens and Laurence van Lent
Amsterdam Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

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incentive pay, effort and selection effects, performance measure properties, cash bonus