Margaret Abernethy

Manager ‘Growth Mindset’ and Resource Management Practices

Margaret Abernethy, Shannon W Anderson, Sujay Nair, Yile Jiang

Journal article  |  2021  |  Accounting, Organizations and Society

We study the relation between a manager’s growth mindset and their use of resource management practices. Growth mindset is based o..

The Influence of Performance Measurement on the Processual Dynamics of Strategic Change

Margaret Abernethy, Henri Dekker, Jennifer Grafton

Journal article  |  2021  |  Management Science

We draw on a five-year longitudinal dataset to investigate the influence of performance measurement in the processual dynamics of ..

Group Identity, Performance Transparency, and Employee Performance

Ruidi Shang, Margaret Abernethy, Chung-Yu Hung

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Accounting Review

Economics, social psychology, and management studies suggest that group identity plays an important role in directing employee beh..

Expertise and Discretionary Bonus Decisions

Margaret Abernethy, CY Hung, Laurence VAN LENT

Journal article  |  2020  |  Management Science

We examine the association between managers’ expertise and their discretionary bonus decisions in a hospital setting. We hypothesi..

Can organizational identification mitigate the CEO horizon problem?

Like Jiang, Margaret Abernethy, Yu Kuang

Journal article  |  2019  |  Accounting, Organizations and Society

CEOs of retirement age are likely to exhibit a “horizon problem,” whereby they are reluctant to make decisions that are beneficial..

Critique on the "Manager Effects" Research and Implications for Management Accounting Research

Margaret A Abernethy, Mark S Wallis

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING RESEARCH

Management accounting researchers have been slow to explore the empirical implications of the “manager effect” on management contr..

Virtual Issue on Empirical Management Accounting Research

M Abernethy, Dennis Campbell

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Accounting Research

We review empirical papers published in JAR over the past 10 years examining management accounting and control systems in organiza..

The Relation between Strategy, CEO Selection, and Firm Performance

Y Kuang, MA Abernethy, B Qin

Journal article  |  2019  |  Contemporary Accounting Research

We examine whether a firm's strategic priorities influence its selection of a new CEO and what conditions enable such an appointme..

Organization identity and earnings manipulation

Margaret A Abernethy, Jan Bouwens, Peter Kroos

Journal article  |  2017  |  ACCOUNTING ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETY

Management scholars are beginning to provide empirical evidence that organization identity (OI) can be a powerful means of reducin..

Is Corporate Governance a good predictor of financial distress within firms?

Margaret Abernethy, Jennifer Grafton, Naomi Soderstrom

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2016

Understanding determinants of financial distress is of interest to a large range of stakeholders. Using data from a banking indust..