Laura W Wang

Laura W Wang is an Associate Professor of Accountancy at the University of Illinois, holding the Fred and Virginia Roedgers Faculty Fellowship. Her research focuses on organizational behavior, contract theory, and incentive design, with a particular emphasis on how institutional structures influence employee performance and ethical decision-making.

Her work explores topics such as penalty contracts, second-chance provisions, telecommuting bias, and failure disclosure in workplaces. She employs quasi-field experiments and observational studies to analyze behavioral responses to incentive systems, particularly in social mission organizations and team-based environments.

Key contributions include studies on how second-chance provisions enhance penalty contract effectiveness, the role of emotion understanding in managerial control decisions, and the impact of work-time monitoring on gender bias in remote work settings. Her research bridges accounting, psychology, and economics to address real-world organizational challenges.

Wang’s articles frequently appear in top journals like the Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research, focusing on themes such as employee motivation, performance evaluation biases, and the ethical implications of incentive systems.