Professor Wim A. Van der Stede

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CIMA Professor of Accounting and Financial Management
Director of the PhD Programme in Accounting

Research interests

• Management control systems: budgeting, performance measurement and incentive systems
• Corporate governance: executive compensation and internal controls

Recent publications

          Books

• Merchant, Kenneth, A. & Wim A. Van der Stede (2007), 'Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation, and Incentives' (London: Prentice Hall), Second Edition (First Edition: 2003)

          Selected articles

• Gibbs, Michael, Kenneth A. Merchant, Wim A. Van der Stede & Mark E. Vargus (2009), 'Performance Measure Properties and Incentive System Design’, Industrial Relations, in press.
   
• Jansen, E. Pieter, Kenneth A. Merchant & Wim A. Van der Stede (2009), ‘National Differences in Incentive Compensation Practices: The Differing Roles of Financial Performance Measurement in The United States and The Netherlands’, Accounting, Organizations & Society, in press.
   
• Van der Stede, Wim A. (2007), 'The Pitfalls of Pay-for-Performance', Finance & Management 150, 10-13.
   
• Levenson, Alec, Wim A. Van der Stede & Susan Cohen (2006), 'Measuring the Relationship Between Managerial Competencies and Performance', Journal of Management 32, 360-380.
   
• Van der Stede, Wim A., Chee W. Chow & Thomas W. Lin (2006), 'Strategy, Choice of Performance Measures, and Performance', Behavioral Research in Accounting 18, 185-205.
   
• Van der Stede, Wim A., S. Mark Young & Clara Chen (2005), 'Assessing the Quality of Evidence in Empirical Management Accounting Research: The Case of Survey Studies', Accounting, Organizations & Society 30, 655-684.
   
• Gibbs, Michael, Kenneth A. Merchant, Wim A. Van der Stede & Mark E. Vargus (2005), 'Benefits of Evaluating Performance Subjectively', Performance Improvement Journal (May-June), 26-32
   
• Gibbs, Michael, Kenneth A. Merchant, Wim A. Van der Stede & Mark E. Vargus (2004), 'Determinants and Effects of Subjectivity in Incentives', The Accounting Review 79, 409-436.
   
• Hansen, Stephen C. & Wim A. Van der Stede (2004), 'Multiple Facets of Budgeting: An Exploratory Analysis', Management Accounting Research 15, 415-439.
   
• Hansen, Stephen C., David T. Otley & Wim A. Van der Stede (2003), 'Recent Developments in Budgeting: An Overview and Research Perspective', Journal of Management Accounting Research 15, 95-116.
   
• Van der Stede, Wim A. (2003), 'The Effect of National Culture on Management Control and Incentive System Design in Multi-Business Firms: Evidence of Intracorporate Isomorphism', European Accounting Review 12, 263-285
   
• Merchant, Kenneth, A., Wim A. Van der Stede & Liu Zheng (2003), 'Disciplinary Constraints on the Advancement of Knowledge: The Case of Organizational Incentive Systems', Accounting, Organizations & Society 28, 251-286
   
• Van der Stede, Wim A. (2000), 'The Relationship between Two Consequences of Budget Controls: Budgetary Slack Creation and Managerial Short-term Orientation', Accounting, Organizations & Society 25, 609-622
   
• Merchant, Kenneth A. & Wim A. Van der Stede (2000), 'Ethical Issues of "Results-Oriented" Management Control Systems', Research on Accounting Ethics 6, 153-169

          Selected book chapters

• Young, S. Mark, James Gong & Wim A. Van der Stede (2009), 'Value Creation and the Possibilities for Management Accounting Research in Entertainment: The U.S. Motion Picture Industry’ in: Handbook of Management Accounting Research 3 (Elsevier), edited by Christopher S. Chapman, Anthony G. Hopwood & Michael D. Shields, Chapter 7, in press.
   
• Hesford, James W., Sam Lee, Wim A. Van der Stede & S. Mark Young (2007), 'Management Accounting - A Bibliographic Study' in Handbook of Management Accounting Research 1 (Elsevier), edited by Christopher S. Chapman, Anthony G. Hopwood & Michael D. Shields, Chapter 1, pp.3-26
   
• Van der Stede, Wim A. (2005), 'Budgeting and Management Control: An Organizational Perspective' in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Accounting (Volume of Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management), edited by Cary L. Cooper, 101-106

          Selected cases

• Golden Parachutes (2007)
• Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. (2007)
• Controls at the Bellagio Casino Resort (2006)
• Diagnostic Products Corporation (2005)
• Puente Hills Toyota (2004)
• Southern California Edison (2004)
• Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (2004)
• Catalytic Solutions, Inc. (2003)

Awards and honours

          Selected awards

• 2007 AAA Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award
• 2005 MBA Golden Apple Teaching Award
• 2002 Best Paper 9th World Congress of Accounting Educators

Teaching

• Office hours

Lectures / classes

• AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control
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• AC410 Management Accounting, Strategy and Organizational Control
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• AC411 Accounting, Strategy and Organisational Control
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• AC412 Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management
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Other web pages

• Professor Wim A. Van der Stede's experts page

Contact information

Department of Accounting
Room A213
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6695
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7420

Email: w.van-der-stede@lse.ac.uk

Administrative contact

Kerstin Huwig, k.huwig@lse.ac.uk

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