Researchers have used patent counts, citation weighted patent counts, as well as research and development spending to measure innovation with, at times, conflicting results. We benchmark the validity of these innovation proxies using a novel data set of appraised tangible and intangible assets....

This paper discusses how cost affects Management Control System (MCS) choices and effectiveness in creative contexts from a cost and benefit of information approach. We used Tessier and Otley’s (2012) conceptual development of Simons Levers’ control framework to propose an overhead cost...

This study investigates management incentive to disclose non-GAAP indicators concerning innovation in high-technology industries and the usefulness of the disclosure. As predicted, we find that firms increase disclosures of innovation when current earnings are less informative, or when future...

This paper analyzes a principal-agent-model with a principal, a manager, and a team of workers to investigate the incentive provision and optimal team size in a setting with uncertain productivity and team synergy effects which is typical for innovation environments. Workers are responsible for...

Using a single case study of a highly innovative medical device company engaged in two types of innovation (technological and customer-oriented), this paper examines the nature of the relationship between mutually reinforcing management control systems (MCSs) and the generation of dynamic...

The article considers theoretical aspects of the applied strategic innovative analysis based on the innovative balanced scorecard element to be applied in the research process of the strategic innovative organization activity aspects. The methodology of the research is the Balanced Scorecard...

We inform the policy debate on whether management earnings guidance fosters managerial myopia by examining whether firms providing earnings guidance exhibit less firm innovation. At the core of the debate is whether guidance impedes long-term value creation, and evidence on the association...

This study examines the relation between the degree of innovation disclosed in new product announcements (NPAs) and future firm performance. Using a new text-based measure of the amount of innovation disclosed in NPAs, we find that higher innovation disclosure predicts favorable future sales and...

Firm innovation drives both firm competitiveness and economic growth. Constructing a novel firm-patent panel database from 29 countries, I find that transparency directly boosts innovative effort by reducing managerial career concerns. This effect operates through transparency's implicit...