Research

“Knowledge Sharing: The Spillover Effects of Process versus Outcome Accountability”

Main finding: Imposing different types of accountability on employees’ task performance incrementally influences their knowledge-sharing behavior. Such influences differ between employees with high versus low task output.

Method: Online experiment

1. "Work for Money: The Behavioral Effects of Feedback Format on Employees’ Performance" (with Lulu Di, Wei Jiang, and Jason Kuang)

• Presented at the 2021 MAS Midyear Meeting

• Funded by the 2020 Georgia Tech CIBER Doctoral Research Award

Main finding: Holding economic incentives constant, the presence of monetary cues in performance feedback leads to significantly better performance than when monetary cues are absent.

Methods: Field experiment; online experiment

2. "Are pro-social managers more honest? The effects of CSR attitude and task type on budget reporting behavior" (with Jason Kuang and Ziyang Li)

• • To be presented at the 25th Annual Ethics Research Symposium and 2021 AAA Annual Meeting

Main finding: In CSR-related tasks, the level of honesty is significantly higher for CSR-supportive individuals than for non-supportive individuals, but this effect is muted in business tasks unrelated to CSR.

Methods: Lab experiment; survey (with professional participants)

3. "The Effects of Financial versus Nonfinancial Targets on Managers’ CSR Performance" (with Jason Kuang and Ziyang Li)

• • Presented at the 2019 GRACE Conference, 2019 Georgia Tech Accounting Workshops, and 2020 AAA Annual Meeting

  • Funded by the 2019 IMA Doctoral Summer Research Scholarship

  • Developed from the second-year paper

Main finding: CSR performance is higher under financial targets than under nonfinancial targets, but only when managers strongly support CSR.

Methods: Lab experiment; survey (with professional participants)