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Karen L. Sedatole

Karen L. Sedatole

Associate Professor
Accounting and Information Systems

Phone: (517) 432-2919
Email: sedatole@bus.msu.edu
PhD University of Michigan
Vita

Course

  • MBA 812:  Managerial Accounting
    Spring 2009
  • EMBA 812:  Accounting for Decision Making & Control
    Fall 2008
  • ACC 841:  Strategic Management Accounting
    Fall 2009

Research interests/Areas of expertise

  • The measurement and use of non-financial performance measures for performance management; control in inter-organizational collaborations; determinants and consequences of evaluation and reward systems.

Bio(s)

  • Karen L. Sedatole is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University. She earned her BSE in computer engineering from Baylor University in 1987, her MBA from The University of Texas at Austin in 1989, and her PhD from The University of Michigan in 2000. Prior to her doctoral work, she worked as a systems consultant, designing and implementing customized client information systems used in forecasting, planning and decision-making.

    Professor Sedatole's research focuses on (i) the role of non-financial performance measures as a performance management tool, and (ii) the determinants and consequences of management control mechanisms, both within the firm and across firm boundaries (e.g., in inter-firm collaborations). Grants supporting her research have been awarded from the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Foundation, the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation, and the Institute of Management Accountants. Her research, which includes archival, field research and experimental methodologies, has been published in The Accounting Review, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. She is on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review and Journal of Management Accounting Research. Her study, The Effect of Control Systems on Trust and Cooperation in Collaborative Environments, published in The Accounting Review in 2005 (co-authors A. L. Coletti and K. L. Towry) was the winner of the 2009 Notable Contributions to Management Accounting Research Award.

Articles

  • Anderson, S. W., H. C. Dekker, and K. L. Sedatole. (2010). An Empirical Examination of Goals and Performance-to-Goal Following the Introduction of an Incentive Bonus Plan with Participative Goal-setting. Management Science forthcoming:
  • Dikolli, S. S/, S. L. Kulp, and K. L. Sedatole. (2009). Transient Institutional Ownership and CEO Contracting. The Accounting Review 84: 3. 737-770.
  • M. H. Christ, K. L. Sedaole, K. L. Towry, and M. A. Thomas. (2008 January). When Formal Controls Undermine Trust and Cooperation. Strategic Finance 38-44.
  • Dikolli, S. S., and K. L. Sedatole. (2007). Improvements in the Information Content of Non-Financial Forward-Looking Performance Measures: A Taxonomy and Application. Journal of Management Accounting Research. 19: 71-104.
  • S. S. Dikolli, W. R. Kinney, and K. L. Sedatole. (2006). Measuring Customer Relationship Value: The Role of Switching Cost. Contemporary Accounting Research 24: 1. 93-132.
  • A. L. Coletti, K. L. Sedatole, and K. L. Towry. (2005). The Effect of Control Systems on Trust and Cooperation in Collaborative Environments. The Accounting Review 80: 2. 477-500.
  • H. S. Bansal, S. S. Dikolli, G. McDougal, and K. L. Sedatole. (2004). Relating E-Satisfaction to Behavioral Outcomes: An Empirical Study. Journal of Services Marketing 18: 4. 290-302.
  • K. L. Sedatole. (2003). The Effect of Measurement Alternatives on a Nonfinancial Quality Measure’s Forward-Looking Properties. The Accounting Review 78: 2. 555-580.
  • S. W. Anderson, D. Glenn, and K. L. Sedatole. (2000). Sourcing Parts of Complex Products: Evidence on transactions costs, high-powered incentives and ex-post opportunism. Accounting, Organizations & Society 25: 8. 723-749.
  • S. W. Anderson and K. L. Sedatole. (1998). Designing Quality Into Products: The Use of Accounting Data in New Product Development. Accounting Horizons 12: 3. 213-233.

In Collection

  • S. W. Anderson and K. L. Sedatole. (2003). "Management Accounting for the Extended Enterprise: Performance Management for Strategic Alliances and Networked Partners". In A. Bhimini (ed.) Management Accounting in the Digital Economy London:Oxford University Press.

Technical Report

  • Anderson, S. W., M. H. Christ, and K. L. Sedatole. (2006). Managing Strategic Alliance Risk: Survey Evidence of Control Practices in Collaborative Inter-Organizational Settings. The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation.