Xinyu Zhang

Biography

Xinyu Zhang is an assistant professor of accounting at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Her primary research interest is the management control systems used in practice. Her current work examines how management control systems (e.g. incentives, feedback) bond and alienate individuals and in turn influence their cooperation and productivity. Zhang is also interested in the antecedents and consequences of pro-social behavior and misreporting.

Education

PhD The University Of Texas At Austin, 2018
MS Tilburg University, 2013
MS Fudan University, 2011
MS Bocconi University, 2011
BMS Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2008

Research

• Zhang, Xinyu. "The effects of relative performance information on subsequent cooperation"Contemporary Accounting Research. 42.3 (2025): 1684-1712
• Kachelmeier, Steven; Williamson, Michael; Zhang, Xinyu. "We're in This Together: The Motivational Effects of Tangible Rewards in a Group Setting"Contemporary Accounting Research. 40.2 (2023): 842-867
• Chan, Eric; Zhang, Xinyu. "Understanding and Deterring Misreporting in Nonprofits: The Joint Effects of Pay Level and Penalty Type"The Accounting Review. 96.4 (2021): 157-177
• Chan, Eric; Kachelmeier, Steven; Zhang, Xinyu. "Working Longer but Not Harder: The Effects of Incentivizing Inputs versus Outputs in a Heterogeneous Workforce"The Accounting Review. 96.5 (2021): 133–156

Awards

• FARS Midyear Meeting Excellence in Reviewing Award (2026) American Accounting Association, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section