It is often suggested in the managerial accounting literature that control system effectiveness depends not only on what information the system supplies to managers responsible for exercising control, but how managers use the information. In the context of budgetary controls, Argyris (1952) may have been the first to note that control system failure was more often affected by the style of infor...

In press) How reward, computer self-efficacy, and perceived power security affect KMS success: An empirical investigation in high-tech companies.

It was proposed that people attribute an individual’s behavior more to internal factors when that individual’s actions are influenced by reward than when those actions are influenced by punishment. Previous research has failed to control for the power of reward versus punishment which, in effect, creates a confounding of behavioral base rates (consensus) with the reward-punishment manipulation....

Effort expenditure has an aversive connotation and it can lower hedonic feelings. In this study, we explored the electrophysiological correlates of the complex interplay of reward processing with cost anticipation. To this aim, healthy adult participants performed a gambling task where the outcome (monetary reward vs. no-reward) and its expectancy were manipulated on a trial by trial basis whil...

The bulk of research on academic rankings is policy-oriented, preoccupied with ‘best practices’, and seems incapable transcending the normative discourse ‘governance’. To understand, engage, properly critique operation power in rankings, needs to escape gravity ‘police science’ embrace a political science ranking. More specifically, article identifies three pillars extant from which departure w...

Money has frequently been used as an extrinsic motivator since it is assumed that humans are willing to invest more effort for financial reward. However, the influence of a monetary reward on pacing and performance in trained athletes is not well-understood. Therefore, the aim of this study was to analyse the influence of a monetary reward in well-trained cyclists on their pacing and performanc...

35 Previously, we introduced a monkey model for human frontal midline 36 theta oscillations, as a possible neural correlate of attention. It was based on 37 homologous theta oscillations found in the monkey's prefrontal and anterior 38 cingulate cortices (areas 9 and 32) in a self-initiated hand-movement task. 39 However, it has not been confirmed whether theta activity in the monkey 40 model c...