Alan Webb
Deloitte Professor
Accounting and Finance
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Prof/Dr Alan Webb, completed his Ph.D. (Alberta University), Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) (Nova Scotia), Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant (FCPA) (Ontario). He is awarded as Deloitte Professorship, 2015, Best Paper Award, Journal of Management Accounting Research, with J. Kennedy and T. Vance, 2014, etc,. He served as a Editor: Contemporary Accounting Research (2007 - present), Editorial Boards: The Accounting Review (2014 - present); Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences (2015 - present).
Research Interest
Behavioural consequences of management control tools such as targets, and incentive programs, and the motivational effects of non-cash rewards such as gift cards and merchandise, Variety of methods including field and lab experiments, questionnaires, field interviews and archival analysis of field data,
Publications
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Berger L, Klassen KJ, Libby T, Webb A. Complacency and giving up across repeated tournaments: Evidence from the field. Journal of Management Accounting Research. 2013 Feb;25(1):143-67.
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Presslee A, Vance TW, Webb RA. The effects of reward type on employee goal setting, goal commitment, and performance. The Accounting Review. 2013 Apr;88(5):1805-31.
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Kelly KO, Webb RA, Vance T. The interactive effects of ex post goal adjustment and goal difficulty on performance. Journal of Management Accounting Research. 2014 Jul;27(1):1-25.
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Kelly K, Presslee A, Webb RA. The Effects of Tangible Rewards Versus Cash Rewards in Consecutive Sales Tournaments: A Field Experiment. The Accounting Review. 2016.
