Xinyu Zhang

Biography

Xinyu Zhang is an assistant professor of accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Her primary research interest is the management control systems used in practice. Her current work examines how management control systems (e.g. incentives, feedback) bond and alienate individuals and in turn influence their cooperation and productivity. Zhang is also interested in the antecedents and consequences of pro-social behavior and misreporting.

Selected Publications

• Kachelmeier, Steven; Williamson, Michael; Zhang, Xinyu. "We're in This Together: The Motivational Effects of Tangible Rewards in a Group Setting"Contemporary Accounting Research. 40.2 (2023): 842-867
• Chan, Eric; Zhang, Xinyu. "Understanding and Deterring Misreporting in Nonprofits: the Joint Effects of Pay Level and Penalty Type"The Accounting Review. 96.4 (2021): 157-177
• Chan, Eric; Kachelmeier, Steven; Zhang, Xinyu. "Working Longer but Not Harder: The Effects of Incentivizing Inputs versus Outputs in a Heterogeneous Workforce"The Accounting Review. 96.5 (2021): 133–156

Recent Courses

• NBA 5110 - Financial Modeling

Academic Degrees

• PhD University of Texas, Austin, 2018
• MS Tilburg University, 2013
• MS Bocconi University, 2011
• MS Fudan University, 2011
• BMS Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2008