Each student will be responsible for preparing a summary and criticizing an academic article that deals with management control systems.
Students MUST select the following study on the Balanced Scorecard. The article is attached called “The Role of Financial Incentives in Balanced Scorecard-Based Performance Evaluations- Correcting Mood Congruency Biases”
Ding, S. and Beaulieu, P. 2011. The Role of Financial Incentives in Balanced Scorecard‐Based Performance Evaluations: Correcting Mood Congruency Biases, Journal of Accounting Research, 49(5), p.1223-1247.
The article assignment is expected to:
• Provide the article’s title, source, and publication date.
• State the article’s major points [10 marks].
• Explain the authors’ motivation for the article [10 marks].
• Specify what major concepts from ADM4345 were discussed by the article [15 marks].
• Comment whether or not the article provided you with additional understanding of these major concepts [10 marks].
• Critically evaluate the application of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a performance evaluation tool, using relevant theories, managerial practices, and/or your personal working experiences [40 marks].
• Critically evaluate some extra studies on the BSC and discuss the implications of these studies on the application of this important MCS tool and their link to the final exam article. Extra studies on the BSC will be posted on Brightspace, but you may find additional articles by yourself through the University of Ottawa’s library [10 marks].
You are not expected to comment on the article’s statistical analyses, if any.
This article assignment should include a cover page and should be presented in size-12 font, 1.5 line spacing, with normal margins, and not more than 2,000 words plus no more than 2 appendices. The assignment is to be professionally written, using appropriate syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling [5 marks]. Your signed Statement of Academic Integrity should be attached.
