Prof. dr. Sophie Maussen

Sophie Mausssen

Curriculum Vitae

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  • Since September 2020, Sophie Maussen has been working as an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Ghent University (department of Accounting, Corporate Finance and Taxation). Sophie earned her MSc (2014) and PhD (2020) in Business Economics at Ghent University. She teaches MSc courses on management accounting, management control, and research methods in accounting. In her research she studies both the decision-influencing and the decision-facilitating role of management accounting information. She mainly uses (lab and online) experiments to answer these behavioral questions. Sophie serves as an editorial board member of Accounting Open. In 2017, Sophie was a visiting scholar at Emory University – Goizueta Business School.
  • Sophie has published in Accounting, Organizations and Society (2024), Management Accounting Research (2022, 2023), the European Accounting Review (2022), Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal (2019), Journal of Accounting Education (2020), Accountancy & Bedrijfskunde (2022), and Accounting Education (2017).
  • Sophie supervises three Ph.D. students: Fien RubbenMelissa VerniestDwight Waeye

Expertise 

  • Behavioral research in accounting and control.
  • Costing system design.
  • Lab experiments.

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