Chair of Accounting

Prof. Dr. Kai Alexander Bauch

Kai Alexander Bauch holds the Chair of Accounting at University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) since the summer term of 2022. Following his studies in business administration (major: accounting, controlling & taxation) at Justus Liebig University Giessen, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Accounting at Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf. After completion of his doctorate in 2019, he worked as a PostDoc at the Institute for Accounting at the University of Bern. The focus of his research at RPTU is on behavioral accounting and digitalization in accounting.

Further Information

  • "Ignorance is Bliss: Effects of Real Activities Management by Employees and the Role of Managers" Working Paper. (with M. Arnold und E. Chan)
  • "Effects of Managerial Discretion on the Efficiency of Effort Allocation: Experimental Evidence" Working Paper. (with M. Arnold)
  • "Employees’ Strategic Advice Seeking: The Role of Performance Evaluation and Performance Measure Noise" (with F. Behrend und C. Feichter)
  • "Burn It or Return It? The Effects of Uncertainty and the Possibility to Return Budget on Capital Budgeting" (with M. Arnold und F. Elsinger)
  • "Likeability in Subjective Performance Evaluations: Does it Bias Managers’ Weighting of Performance Measures?" Journal of Business Economics, Vol. 91 (1), 2021, pp. 35-59 (with P. Kotzian und B. Weißenberger).
  • "Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Transformation für die Rechnungslegung" In: Wagner, Udo/Schaffhauser-Linzatti, Michaela-Maria (Eds.): Langfristige Perspektiven und Nachhaltigkeit in der Rechnungslegung, Wiesbaden., 2017, pp. 203-219 (with B. Weißenberger).

 

  • Applied Psychology: An International Review
  • Contemporary Accounting Research
  • European Accounting Review
  • Journal of Business Economics (ZfB)
  • Journal of Management Control
  • Junior Management Science (JUMS)
  • Management Science
  • Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR)
  • Review of Managerial Science
  • numerous conferences, such as  AAA Annual Meeting, ABO Section Meeting, FARS Midyear Meeting, MAS Midyear Meeting oder EAA Annual Congress (as Scientific Committee Member)
  • Jackstädt Fellowship of Dr. Werner Jackstädt-Stiftung, 2023
  • IMA Best Management Accounting Paper Award at the 2022 AAA Annual Meeting for the Paper „Ignorance is Bliss: Effects of Real Activities Management by Employees and the Role of Managers“ (Arnold/Bauch/Chan)
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award of the Management Accounting Section at the AAA Annual Meeting 2020
  • Best dissertation of the year 2019 of the Faculty of Economics at Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf
  • American Accounting Association (AAA)
  • Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)
  • European Accounting Association (EAA)
  • Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e. V., in particular, member of the 'Digital Reporting' working group
  • Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e. V. (VHB)

Prof. Dr. Kai Alexander Bauch
Phone: +49 631 205-4544
Mail: kai.bauch(at)rptu.de
Current research: SSRN

 

Visitors' address:
Gottlieb-Daimler-Straße,
Building 42, Room 357
67663 Kaiserslautern

Postal address:
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
School of Business and Economics
Chair of Accounting
Postbox 3049
67653 Kaiserslautern

Office hours:
by appointment,
please contact secretary's office