Congratulations to Professor Wei Cai for winning the American Accounting Association’s 2021 Management Accounting Section Dissertation Award for her dissertation “Formalizing the Informal: Adopting a Formal Culture-fit Measurement System in the Employee Selection Process.” The purpose of this award is to recognize outstanding dissertation research in the field of management accounting. The award is sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants.
About the Researcher(s)
Wei Cai
Wei Cai joined Columbia University in 2020. Her research interests revolve around management accounting, organizational culture, and diversity and inclusion. Her research broadly investigates how to measure and manage key organizational capital. For example, she examines how corporate leaders and managers can deliberately design and shape organizational culture, and improve organizational outcomes through innovative management control systems. She uses multiple research methods including statistical analyses of archival data sources, field experiments, and surveys.