Laura Wang

Associate Professor of Accountancy and Fred and Virginia Roedgers Fellow in Accountancy

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296 Wohlers Hall

1206 S Sixth St

Champaign, IL 61820

Associate Professor of Accountancy, Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021 to present
Assistant Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014-2021
Senior Associate, Grant Thornton L.L.P, 2006-2009

Wang, L., Williamson, M., & Yang, L. Forthcoming. The Effect of Total Work-Time Information on a Performance Evaluation Bias against Telecommuting Mothers. The Accounting Review.
Wang, L., Burke, J., & Sommerfeldt, R. Forthcoming. To Ask or not to Ask: The Effects of Broadly and Narrowly Adopted Peer-Recognition Systems on Help Seeking. Management Science.
Chen, C., Wang, L., Wu, A., & Wu, S. (2024). Can Second-Chance Provisions Increase the Effectiveness of Penalty Contracts? Evidence from a Quasi-Field Experiment. Contemporary Accounting Research, 41 (3), 1672-1694. link >
Wang, L., & Yin, H. (2022). The Effects of Emotion-Understanding ABility and Tournament Incentives on Supervisors' Propensity to Acquire Subordinate-Type Information to Use in Control Decisions. Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, 107. link >
Hobson, J., Sommerfeldt, R., & Wang, L. (2021). Cheating for the cause: the effects of performance-based pay on socially-oriented misreporting. The Accounting Review, 95 (5), 317-336.
Pierce, L., Wang, L., & Zhang, D. (2021). Peer Barganing and Productivity in Teams: Gender and the Inequitable Division of Pay. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 23 (4), 933-951.

Hecht, G., Hobson, J., & Wang, L. (2020). The Effect of Performance Reporting Frequency on Employee Performance. The Accounting Review, 95 (4), 199-218.
Chen, C., Pesch, H., & Wang, L. (2020). Selection Benefits of Below-Market Pay in Social-Mission Organizations: Effects on Individual Performance and Team Cooperation. The Accounting Review, 95 (1), 57-77. link >
Kachelmeier, S., Wang, L., & Williamson, M. (2019). Incentivizing the Creative Process: From Initial Quantity to Eventual Creativity. The Accounting Review, 94 (2), 249-266.
Wang, L. (2017). Recognizing the Best: The Productive and Counterproductive Effects of Relative Performance Recognition. Contemporary Accounting Research, 34 (2), 966-990.
Hales, J., Wang, L., & Williamson, M. (2015). Selection Benefits of Stock-Based Compensation for-the Rank-and-File Employees. The Accounting Review, 90 1497-1516.

Fred and Virginia Roedger Fellowship in Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Accountancy, 2019 to present
Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award, Association of International Certified Practicing Accountants (unified voice of AICPA and CIMA), 2020
Journal of Management Accounting Research Outstanding Reviewer Award, American Accounting Association - Management Accounting Section, 2020

Data Analytics for Mgmt Acctg (ACCY 512) Data analytics incorporated into management decision making, including planning, cost management, and management control system design. Focuses on developing your skills of gathering and analyzing data for internal decision making purposes.
Intro to ACCY Research (ACCY 592) Comparative study of alternative methodologies and conceptual frameworks and their application to selected current research issues central to the development of accounting thought, both theoretical and empirical.

296 Wohlers Hall

1206 S Sixth St

Champaign, IL 61820