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Stanley Baiman

William H. Lawrence Professor Emeritus of Accounting


Professor Baiman’s area of research interest is the design of incentive mechanisms within firms and within supply chains. Among the topics which he has studied are the design of: multi-stage capital budgeting systems, internal transfer pricing systems, supply chain monitoring and contracting, and inventory buffers. He has published in: Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, The Review of Accounting Studies, Accounting Organizations and Society, and Management Science. Professor Baiman received the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association in 2004. He is currently an Editor of The Review of Accounting Studies and has served on the editorial boards of: Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, and Organizations and Society.

In addition to teaching an incentive contracting course in the doctoral program, Professor Baiman teaches financial accounting and managerial accounting in the undergraduate, MBA and Executive Education programs. Professor Baiman has been on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh and a visiting faculty member at Stanford University and the London School of Economics. He received his PhD. from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Publications
Stanley Baiman, Sasson Bar-Yosef , Bharat Sarath (2011), Bilateral Incentive Problems and the Form of Start-Up Financing, Bridging the GAAP: Recent Advances in Finance and Accounting, Edited by Itzhak Venezia and Zvi Weiner, forthcoming.
Stanley Baiman, Serguei Netessine, Richard Saouma (2010), Informativeness, Incentive Compensation, and the Choice of Inventory Buffer, Accounting Review, 85: 1839-1860.
Stanley Baiman, Tim Baldenius (2009), Non-Financial Performance Measures as Coordination Devices, Accounting Review, 84: 299 - 330.
Stanley Baiman, Paul Fischer, Madhav Rajan, Richard Saouma (2007), Resource Allocation Auctions Within Firms, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 45, December, pp. 915 – 946.
Stanley Baiman (2006), Contract Theory Analysis of Managerial Accounting Issues, In Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting, Ed. Dr. Alnoor Bhimani, Oxford University Press.

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Current Research
Stanley Baiman, Mirko S. Heinle, Richard Saouma, Multi-Stage Resource Allocation under Asymmetric Information

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Honors And Awards
Distinguished Lecturer in Accounting, Tepper School of Business, July 2008. I was asked to give 5 lectures to the accounting faculty and doctoral students of the Tepper School., 2008
Recipient 2005 Ohio State University chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award, May 2005, 2005
Recipient of the 2004 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award, American Accounting Association for The Role of Information and Opportunism in the Choice of Buyer-Supplier Relationships (with Madhav Rajan) Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 40, May 2002, pp. 247 - 278., 2004
EMTM Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003

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Stanley Baiman
 1325 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6365
Phone: (215) 898-6782
Fax: (215) 573-2054
baiman@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests:
Managerial accounting; auditing; organizational design