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First Name
Connor

Last Name
Brown

Email
[email protected]

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Title
Assistant Professor

Office
SCB 3144

Phone
(616) 331-7259

Department
School of Accounting

Expertise

• Incentive Design and Motivation
• Performance Measurement
• Behavioral Accounting

Biography

Dr. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the School of Accounting. He has earned two degrees from the University of Pittsburgh: a B.S. in Finance and a Ph.D. in Accounting and Behavioral Economics. He is interested in exploring the behavioral effects of various performance measurement and reward systems with particular interest in the hidden consequences of managerial choices. In particular, he has researched employee perceptions of pay fairness in response to bonus opportunities, the effects of pay transparency policies relative to leaked pay information, and how employees respond to performance evaluation systems that are driven by artificial intelligence.

Dr. Brown enjoys reading (primarily science fiction), golf, and spending time with his wife, Kara, and two children, Alexa and Bennett.

Education

• B. S. – Finance from University of Pittsburgh
• Ph. D. – Accounting, Behavioral Economics from University of Pittsburgh

Teaching Areas

• Managerial accounting
• Strategic Cost Management and Decision Making

Publications

• Brown, C. V. C., J. H. Evans, III, D. V. Moser, and A. Presslee. 2022. The strength of performance incentives, pay dispersion, and lower-paid employee effort. Journal of Management Accounting Research 34 (3): 59-76.

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