College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor of Accountancy and Raymond A. Hoffman Fellow in Accountancy

Ph.D., Accounting, University of Southern California, 2006
Masters of Accounting, University of Southern California, 2000
B.A., English, Peking University, 1997

Assistant Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006 to present
Accountant, Los Angeles Center Studios, 2000-2001

Chen, X., Lu, H., Sougiannis, T. 2012. The Agency Problem, Corporate Governance, and the Behavior of Selling, General, and Administrative Costs. Contemporary Accounting Research, 29: 252-282

Chen, X., Sandino, T. 2012. Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship between Relative Wages and Employee Theft. Journal of Accounting Research, 50: 967-1000

Chen, X., Williamson, M., Zhou, H. 2012. Reward System Design and Group Creativity: An Experimental Investigation. The Accounting Review, 87: 1885-1911

Chen, X., Adler, P. 2011. Combining Creativity and Control: Understanding Individual Motivation in Large-Scale Collaborative Creativity. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 36: 63-85

Raymond A. Hoffman Fellowship in Accountancy, Department of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011 to present
Zimmerman Center for Education and Research in Accountancy Fellowship, Department of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009 to present
Raymond A. Hoffman Faculty Excellence Award, Department of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010

Editorial Board Member, The Accounting Review, present
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Management Accounting Studies (China), 2011-present
Editorial Review Board Member, The International Journal of Accounting, 2009-present

Management accounting and control

Management accounting and control, especially the design of performance measurement and compensation systems