Ivo D. Tafkov
KPMG / E. Harold Stokes Professor of Accounting School of Accountancy- Education
- Ph.D., Emory University
- MBA, Kennesaw State University
- B.B.A., Sofia University
- Specializations
- managerial accounting
- Biography
Professor Tafkov’s research investigates the effect of economic and behavioral factors on managerial decision-making.
- Publications
- Tafkov, I., K. Towry, and F. Zhou. The Impact of Knowledge Transfer on Investment in Knowledge Creation in Firms, forthcoming at Contemporary Accounting Research.
-presented at the 2020 Annual Contemporary Accounting Research Conference - Arnold, M., R. L. Hannan, and I. Tafkov. 2020. Mutual Monitoring and Team Member Communication in Teams, The Accounting Review Vol. 95(5): 1-21.
- Newman, A., I. Tafkov, and F. Zhou. 2020. The Effects of Incentive Scheme and Task Difficulty on Employees’ Altruistic Behavior Outside the Firm, Contemporary Accounting Research Vol. 37(3): 1512-1535.
- Best Paper Award – 2016 AAA Annual Meeting, Management Accounting Section - Choi, W., G. Hecht, I. Tafkov, and K. Towry. 2020. Bring the Noise, but not the Funk: Does the Effect of Performance Measure Noise on Learning Depend on whether the Learning is Experiential or Vicarious? The Accounting Review Vol. 95(4): 153-172.
- Arnold, M., and I. Tafkov. 2019. Managerial Discretion and Task Interdependence in Teams, Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 36(4), 2467-2493.
- Hecht, G., A. Newman, and I. Tafkov. 2019. Managers’ Strategic Use of Discretion over Feedback Provision and Implications for Team-Members’ Effort, Management Accounting Research, Vol. 45.
- Hannan, R. L., G. McPhee, A. Newman, and I. Tafkov. The Informativeness of Relative Performance Information and its Effect on Effort Allocation in a Multi-Task Environment, Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 36(3), 1607-1627.
-presented at the 2017 Annual Contemporary Accounting Research Conference - Arnold, M., R. L. Hannan, and I. Tafkov. 2018. Team Member Subjective Communication in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Teams, forthcoming at The Accounting Review
- Choi, W., A. Newman, and I. Tafkov. 2016. A Marathon, a Series of Sprints, or Both? Tournament Horizon and Task Complexity in Multi-Period Settings, The Accounting Review, Vol. 91(5), 1391-1410.
- Choi, W., G. Hecht, I. Tafkov, and K. Towry. 2016. Vicarious Learning under Implicit Contracts, The Accounting Review, Vol. 91(4), 1087-1108.
- Newman, A. and I. Tafkov. 2014. Relative Performance Information in Tournaments with Different Prize Structures, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 39(5), 348-361.
- Hannan, R. L., G. McPhee, A. Newman, and I. Tafkov. 2013. The Effect of Relative Performance Information on Performance and Effort Allocation in a Multi-Task Environment, The Accounting Review, Vol. 88(2), 553-575.
- Tafkov, I. 2013. Private and Public Relative Performance Information under Different Incentive Contracts, The Accounting Review, Vol. 88(1), 327-350.
- Hecht, G., I. Tafkov, and K. Towry. 2012. Performance Spillover in a Multi-Task Environment. Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 29 (2), 563-589.
- Tafkov, I., K. Towry, and F. Zhou. The Impact of Knowledge Transfer on Investment in Knowledge Creation in Firms, forthcoming at Contemporary Accounting Research.