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Henri Dekker wins greatest impact on practice award

Professor Henri Dekker (Department of Accounting) has won the Greatest Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award.

He won the award for his research conducted jointly with Professor Shannon Anderson on the contract design for interfirm transactions (2005, Management Science).

The award was presented to Anderson (Rice University Houston) and Dekker (VU University Amsterdam) at the January 2010 American Accounting Association MAS conference in Seattle. The award in the amount of $2,000 is sponsored by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), and the Society of Management Accountants of Canada, and is granted for the single article published within the last 5 years judged to have the greatest potential impact on managerial accounting practice. The selection committee included representatives of the sponsoring organizations and was chaired by Professor Ken Merchant (USC). In 2009, Dekker also won the best early career researcher award sponsored by the same organisations.
 
The details of the study are: Anderson, S.W. & H.C. Dekker. 2005. Management Control for Market Transactions: The relation between transaction costs, incomplete contract design and subsequent performance. Management Science, Vol. 51, Issue 12: 1734-1752. Read the abstract.