Chair of Accounting

Prof. Dr. Kai Alexander Bauch

Kai Alexander Bauch has held the Chair of Business Administration, in particular External Accounting, at the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (= Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau; RPTU) since the summer semester of 2022. Following his studies in business administration (focus: Accounting - Controlling - Taxation) at Justus Liebig University Giessen, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Accounting, at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. After completing his doctorate in 2019, he worked as a PostDoc at the Institute of Management Accounting and Control at the University of Bern. The focus of his research at RPTU is on behavioral accounting and digitalization in accounting.

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Further Information

  • "Ignorance is Bliss: Effects of Real Activities Management by Employees and the Role of Managers" Working Paper. (mit M. Arnold und E. Chan)
  • "Effects of Managerial Discretion on the Efficiency of Effort Allocation: Experimental Evidence" Working Paper. (mit M. Arnold)
  • "Employees’ Strategic Advice Seeking: The Role of Performance Evaluation and Performance Measure Noise" (mit F. Behrend und C. Feichter)
  • "Burn It or Return It? The Effects of Uncertainty and the Possibility to Return Budget on Capital Budgeting" (mit M. Arnold und F. Elsinger)
  • "Likeability in Subjective Performance Evaluations: Does it Bias Managers’ Weighting of Performance Measures?" In: Journal of Business Economics (ZfB), 91. Jg., 2021, H. 1, S. 35-59 (mit P. Kotzian und B. Weißenberger).
  • "Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Transformation für die Rechnungslegung" In: Wagner, Udo/Schaffhauser-Linzatti, Michaela-Maria (Hrsg.): Langfristige Perspektiven und Nachhaltigkeit in der Rechnungslegung, Wiesbaden., 2017, S. 203-219 (mit 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 (als Scientific Committee Member)
  • Jackstädt Fellowship of Dr. Werner Jackstädt-Stiftung, 2023
  • IMA Best Management Accounting Paper Award of 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 der Management Accounting Section for the AAA Annual Meeting 2020
  • Best dissertation of the year 2019 of the Faculty of Economics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • American Accounting Association (AAA)
  • German University Association (Deutscher Hochschulverband; DHV)
  • European Accounting Association (EAA)
  • Schmalenbach Society for Business Administration e.V. (Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.), in particular member of the Digital Reporting working group
  • Association of University Professors of Business Administration e.V. (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

 

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