Melissa Martin
Associate Professor and Interim Department Head, Accounting
Department of Accounting
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact
Building & Room:
UH 2321
Address:
601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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About
Experience
- Michael B. Mikhail Chaired Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Illinois - Chicago, 2021-Present
- Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Illinois - Chicago, 2015 – 2021
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting, Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business, 2013-2015
- Assistant Professor of Accountancy, Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business, 2009-2015
Classes Taught
- MBA Level Management Accounting
- Undergraduate Management Accounting
Research Interests: Executive Compensation, Taxes and Compensation, Management Control Systems
Selected Grants
UIC COVID Restart Grant, to support faculty restarting projects after demands of COVID-19 pandemic, 2023
Institute of Management Accountants, to support research on the impact of economic assumptions on incentive system effectiveness., 2007
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
- Mahlendorf, M., Martin, M., and Smith, D. “Innovative data – Use cases in management accounting research and practice” European Accounting Review, 2023, 32, p. 547-576.
- Drake, K., Engel, E., and Martin, M. “Investigating discretion in executive compensation: Extracting private information from valuation allowance decisions” Review of Accounting Studies, 2023, 28, p. 533-569.
- Carter, M.E., Lynch, L., and Martin, M. “Board committee overlap and the use of earnings in CEO compensation contracts.” Management Science, 2022 68(8):6268-6297.
- Grabner, I., Martin, M. “The effect of horizontal pay dispersion on the effectiveness of performance-based incentives.” Accounting, Organizations, & Society, 2021, Vol. 88, January 2021.
- Abdusalam, D., Maltarich, M., Nyberg, A., Reilly, G., Martin, M. “Individualized pay-for-performance arrangements: Peer reactions and consequences.” Journal of Applied Psychology, 2021, 106(8), 1202–1223.
- Martin, M. “An evolutionary approach to management control systems research: A prescription for future research.” Accounting, Organizations, & Society, 2020, Vol. 86 Oct. 2020.
- Larocque, S., Martin, M., Walther, B. “Are earnings forecasts informed by proxy statement compensation disclosures?” Contemporary Accounting Research, Summer 2020, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p.741-772.
- Drake, K., Martin, M. “Implementing relative performance evaluation: The role of life cycle peers.” Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2020, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p.107-135.
Plenary paper at 2020 JMAR Session at MAS Conference - Maltarich, M., Nyberg, A., Reilly, G., Abdusalam, D., Martin, M. “Pay-for-performance, sometimes: An interdisciplinary approach to integrating economic rationality with psychological emotion to predict individual performance.” Academy of Management Journal, 2017, 60(6), p. 2155-2174.
- Brown, J., Drake, K., Martin, M. “Compensation in the post-FIN 48 period: The case of contracting on tax performance and uncertainty.” Contemporary Accounting Research, Spring 2016, 33(1), p. 121-151.
- Chen, X.C., Martin, M., Merchant, K. “The effect of measurement timing on the information content of customer satisfaction measures.” Management Accounting Research 25(2014), p. 187-205.
Working Papers
- CEO Bonus Incentives for Domestic and Foreign Performance (with K. Boylen and F. Gaertner)
Under 2nd Round Review at The Journal of Accounting and Economics
Featured in the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog (May 19, 2023) - Managerial Incentives, Disclosure, and Disclosure Substitution: Evidence from Relative Performance Evaluation (with O. Timmermans)
Under 2nd Round Review at Management Science - Management Control in Hierarchies (with K. Flassak, N. Schwaiger, and C. Hoffman)
Under Review at The Accounting Review - Fare Enough? Private Communications with Proxy Advisors: Evidence from Taxi Rides between Public Companies and ISS (with J. Chen)
- Don’t get tripped up: Hurdles and limits to bonus contract payouts (with A. Pawliczek)
- Priming Say on Pay (with M.E. Carter, O. Timmermans, & J. Underwood)
- A new frontier of corporate purpose: Measuring firm efficiency and managerial ability in producing environmental and social outcomes (with P. Patrick and P. Demerjian)
- Performance Management System Evolution: Evidence from incentive contracting (solo-authored)
Notable Honors
Best Undergradute Business Professor, Excellence in Teaching Award, John W. Teets
Finalist, MBA Core Curriculum, Teaching Award
Exellence in Teaching, Scott and Mary Donaldson, Ernst & Young
Mary Pickford, Teaching Award, Endowed
Education
PhD, Accounting - University of Southern California (2009)
MS, Finance - Texas A & M University (2003)
BS, Accounting - Texas A & M University (2002)