Assistant Professor of Accounting

Assistant Professor of Accounting

Research Interests:

Using an experimental methodology to examine management control system design and its effects on the judgment and decision-making of employees, managers, and investors.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

  • Sheeley, B. 2025. “Paying to Reduce Disparity: Financially Incentivizing Workforce Diversity and Its Effects on Managers’ Promotion Decisions and Employees’ Effort.” The Accounting Review 100 (2): 329-349. Link

Practitioner Publications

  • Marsula, S., B. Sheeley, T. A. Thornock, and S. Winkelmann. 2025. “Making Upward Feedback Work Through Anonymity.” Strategic Finance. Link

Working Papers

  • “Investor Judgments of Human Capital Initiatives: The Role of Initiative Type and Financial Performance” with Ling Harris and Khim Kelly Link

  • “The Effect of Anonymity in Upward Feedback: How Feedback Valence and Participation Basis Affect Manager Response” with Svenja Marsula, Todd Thornock, and Sandra Winkelmann

Works in Progress:

  • “Pay-to-Quit Incentives” with Todd Thornock and Eric Chan

  • “Information Acquisition” with Steve Bachmann