- Department Rankings
- Faculty Research Awards
- Journal Editorships
- Journal Editorial Board Memberships
- Accounting Research Workshops
- Information Systems Research Workshops
- PricewaterhouseCoopers Summer Research Workshop
- Research Center
- Global Management Accounting Research Symposium
- 2009 Midwest Accounting Research Symposium
Department Rankings
A recent ranking of research published in the best scholarly journals by business school professors indicates our Department is very successful. Considering the period 2001-2006 for U.S. universities, our Department is ranked as follows:
- #13 for all universities
- #5 for public universities
- #5 in the Big 10
Rankings of the Accounting Faculty
- #14 for all universities
- #4 for public universities
- #4 in the Big 10
Rankings of the Information Systems faculty
- #18 for all universities
- #13 for public universities
- #4 in the Big 10
These rankings of research productivity are based on the number of publications in the top five scholarly accounting journals (Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, and The Accounting Review) and the top three scholarly MIS journals (Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems Quarterly). For additional information, go to: http://www.businessresearch.ca/index.htm.
Another ranking for 2001-2006 has similar results for our Department when all universities in North America are included (see http://citm.utdallas.edu/utdrankings/home.aspx.)
The MSU Accounting faculty are ranked #1 nationally for accounting departments based on the Productivity Index by Academic Analytics. This ranking considers the number of journal publications, books published, citations, awards, honors, and grants. For additional information, see http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/page.php?primary=1&secondary=13& and http://www.academicanalytics.com/top20.html.
- Mike Shields, 2008 Notable (Lifetime) Contribution in Behavioral Accounting Literature, ABO Section of the AAA.
- Mike Shields, 2008 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award, Management Accounting Section of the AAA, with Chris Chapman and Anthony Hopwood for the Handbook of Management Accounting Research, Volumes 1 and 2 (Elsevier)
- Sue Haka, 2006 University Distinguished Faculty Award
- Ranjani Krishnan, 2006 Withrow Endowed Emerging Scholar Award, College of Business, MSU
- Ranjani Krishnan, AAA 2006 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award, Management Accounting Section of the AAA with John Evans, Lynn Hannan and Donald Moser for "Honesty in Managerial Reporting," The Accounting Review (October 2001)
- Mike Shields, 2006 Lee Brummet Award, Institute of Management Accounting
- Isabel Wang, 2006 American Accounting Association (AAA) Competitive Manuscript Award for "Understanding Private Earnings Guidance and Its Implications for Disclosure Regulation"
- Isabel Wang, 2006 Best Dissertation Award from the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the AAA
- Ed Outslay, American Tax Association's 2005 Outstanding Manuscript Award with Gary McGill for "Lost in Translation: Detecting Tax Shelter Activity in Financial Statements," National Tax Journal (September 2004)
- Ranjani Krishnan, 2005 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award with John Evans, Lynn Hannan and Donald Moser for "Honesty in Managerial Reporting”, The Accounting Review (October 2001)
- V. Sambamurthy, Information Systems Research
Journal Editorial Board Memberships
- Sue Haka, International Journal of Accounting, Management Accounting Research
- Chris Hogan, The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory
- Ranjani Krishnan, The Accounting Review, Journal of Management Accounting Research
- Joan Luft, Accounting, Organizations, and Society, The Accounting Review, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Management Accounting Research
- Brian Pentland, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Accounting, Management, and Information Technologies, Information, Technology, and People
- Kathy Petroni, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Accounting Horizons, Contemporary Accounting Research
- V. Sambamurthy, Management Science
- Karen Sedatole, The Accounting Review, Journal of Management Accounting Research
- Mike Shields, Accounting, Organizations, and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Management Accounting Research
- Cheri Speier, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Decision Sciences
The accounting workshop meets weekly for presentations by faculty at other universities and faculty and doctoral students at MSU. The workshop series for Fall 2009 includes:
- Mark Defond (USC)
- Henri Dekker (The Free University of Amsterdam)
- Merle Ederhof ( Yale University)
- Annie Farrell (University of Illinois)
- Mei Feng (University of Pittsburgh)
- Dave Guenther ( University of Oregon)
- Pete Lisowsky (University of Illinois)
- Greg Miller ( University of Michigan)
- Marlene Plumlee (University of Utah)
- Mary Stanford ( Texas Christian University)
- Bill Tayler ( Emory University)
- Scott Whisenant (University of Houston)
The information systems workshops are organized weekly for presentations by faculty at other universities and by doctoral students and faculty at MSU. The workshop series for 2007-2008 includes:
- Alina Chircu (University of Texas at Austin)
- Yuqing Ren (University of Minnesota)
- Steven Sutton (University of Central Florida)
- Joseph Valacich (Washington State University)
This two-day intensive summer research workshop sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers is designed to provide doctoral students and faculty with in-depth exposure to leading scholars and contemporary research in a particular area of research. This workshop consists of morning lectures followed by afternoon discussions of research papers. Leaders of the summer workshops for recent years have included:
- 2009: Geoff Sprinkle, Professor of Accounting, Indiana University
- 2008: Chris Ittner, Ernst and Young Professor of Accounting, University Pennsylvania
- 2007: Christian Leuz, Professor of Accounting and the David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago
- 2006: SP Kothari, Gordon Billard Professor of Management, MIT
- 2005: Dan Collins, Tippie Research Chair in Accounting, University of Iowa
- 2004: Sarah Bonner, USC Accounting Associates Professor of Accounting, University of Southern California
- 2003: Harry Evans, Katz Alumni Professor of Accounting, University of Pittsburgh
- 2002: Mark Nelson, Eleanora and George Landew Professor of Management and Accounting, Cornell University
- 2001: Paul Healy, MBA Class of ’49 Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University
The Center for Leadership of the Digital Enterprise (http://www.bus.msu.edu/clode) was established in 2004 with funding from the Office of Research at MSU. The mission of the Center is to direct research attention and knowledge on critical issues related to the strategic and economic leverage of information technologies in organizations. The Center has established a Corporate Partnership Board and provides funding as well as research opportunities for faculty and doctoral students.
Global Management Accounting Research Symposium
GMARS is a research symposium that rotates annually around the world. Every third year it is at Michigan State University. For more information, go to www.gmars.org.
2009 Midwest Accounting Research Symposium
The 2009 Midwest Accounting Research Symposium will be held at The Henry Center on the campus of Michigan State University. For additional information, go to http://www.bus.msu.edu/acc/mwarc.cfm