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Tatiana Sandino
Assistant Professor of Accounting

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-740-4842
sandino@usc.edu
Education: 
DBA, Harvard Business School; MBA, INCAE; BS, Universidad de Costa Rica

Overview

Tatiana Sandino's research focuses on management control systems, particularly external controls related to executive compensation, and internal controls for managing chain organizations. She has published in several journals including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Accounting Research, and received various awards, including the 2011 Emerging Scholar Competitive Manuscript Award from the Institute of Management Accountants, the 2010 Deans Award for Research Excellence from the Marshall School of Business, and the 2005 Management Accounting Section Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the American Accounting Association. Prior to her doctorate, she was a researcher at INCAE Business School.

Research

Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship between Relative Wages and Employee Theft. Journal of Accounting Research. Forthcoming • 2012
On Testing Business Models. The Accounting Review 86 (5) • 2011
Developing Good Measures to Advance Management Accounting and Control Research: A Discussion of ?Corporate Frugality: Theory, Measurement and Practice.? Contemporary Accounting Research 28(4) • 2011
Putting Business Models under the Microscope. Financial Management. July/August Issue • 2011
Executive Pay and "Independent" Compensation Consultants. Journal of Accounting and Economics 49 (3). • 2010
Organizational Design and Control Across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry. The Accounting Review 84 (6). • 2009
Four Options for Measuring Value Creation. Journal of Accountancy. August Issue. • 2009
The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Option Expensing. The Accounting Review 84 (2). • 2009
The Business of Selling Movies. Strategic Finance 89 (9). • 2008
Global Investors. Teaching Case in Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives. Second Edition. • 2007
Global Investors. Teaching Note in Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives. Second Edition. • 2007
Introducing the First Management Control Systems: Evidence From the Retail Sector. The Accounting Review 82 (1). • 2007
Accounting for Computer Software Development Costs. Harvard Business School. Technical Note #9-102-034. (2001) • 2001
BanCrecen. Teaching Case. Journal of Business Research 50 (1). • 2000
Performance and Market Type Dispersion. Working Paper. (2009)
Stock Option Expensing: Evidence from Shareholders' Votes. Working Paper. (2007)