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Publishes well-developed articles on a variety of current topics in management accounting that are relevant to researchers in both practice and academe. As one of the premier management accounting research journals, AIMA is well poised to meet the needs of management accounting scholars. Featured in Volume 12 are articles on new directions in management accounting research, profit impact of value chain reconfiguration blending strategic cost management (SCM) and action-profit-linkage (APL) perspectives, the measurement gap in paying for performance, cost accounting practices used in advanced manufacturing environments, compensation strategy and organizational performance, accounting for cost interactions in designing products, relationship quality in performance measurement, measuring and accounting for market risk tradeoffs, connecting concepts of business strategy and competitive advantage to activity-based machine cost allocations, corporate acquisition decisions under different strategic motivations, and some new findings on the balanced scorecard adoptions. Researchers in both practice and academe, as well as libraries, would be interested in the articles featured in the AIMA.
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CONTENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
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EDITORIAL BOARD
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND REVIEW PROCEDURES EDITORIAL POLICY AND MANUSCRIPT FORM GUIDELINES INTRODUCTION Marc J. Epstein and John Y. Lee NEW DIRECTIONS IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING RESEARCH: INSIGHTS FROM PRACTICE Frank H. Selto and Sally K. Widener
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THE PROFIT IMPACT OF VALUE CHAIN RECONFIGURATION: BLENDING STRATEGIC COST MANAGEMENT (SCM) AND ACTION-PROFIT-LINKAGE (APL) PERSPECTIVES John K. Shank, William C. Lawler and Lawrence P. Carr
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THE MEASUREMENT GAP IN PAYING FOR PERFORMANCE: ACTUAL AND PREFERRED MEASURES Jeffrey F. Shields and Lourdes Ferreira White
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AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF COST ACCOUNTING PRACTICES USED IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS Rosemary R. Fullerton and Cheryl S. McWatters
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THE INTERACTION EFFECTS OF LEAN PRODUCTION MANUFACTURING PRACTICES, COMPENSATION, AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS ON PRODUCTION COSTS: A RECURSIVE PARTITIONING MODEL Hian Chye Koh, Khim Ling Sim and Larry N. Killough
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COMPENSATION STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE BANKING INDUSTRY IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY C. Janie Chang, Chin S. Ou and Anne Wu
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ACCOUNTING FOR COST INTERACTIONS IN DESIGNING PRODUCTS Mohamed E. Bayou and Alan Reinstein
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RELATIONSHIP QUALITY: A CRITICAL LINK IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS Jane Cote and Claire Latham
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MEASURING AND ACCOUNTING FOR MARKET PRICE RISK TRADEOFFS AS REAL OPTIONS IN STOCK FOR STOCK EXCHANGES Hemantha S. B. Herath and John S. Jahera Jr.
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CONNECTING CONCEPTS OF BUSINESS STRATEGY AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE TO ACTIVITY-BASED MACHINE COST ALLOCATIONS Richard J. Palmer and Henry H. Davis
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CHOICE OF INVENTORY METHOD AND THE SELF-SELECTION BIAS Pervaiz Alam and Eng Seng Loh
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CORPORATE ACQUISITION DECISIONS UNDER DIFFERENT STRATEGIC MOTIVATIONS Kwang-Hyun Chung
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THE BALANCED SCORECARD: ADOPTION AND APPLICATION Jeltje van der Meer-Kooistra and Ed G. J. Vosselman
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Pervaiz Alam
College of Business Administration, Kent State University, Ohio, USA
Mohamed E. Bayou
School of Management, University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Lawrence P. Carr
F. W. Olin Graduate School of Management, Babson College, Massachusetts, USA
C. Janie Chang
Department of Accounting and Finance