The balanced scorecard’s missing link to compensation: a literature review and an agenda for future research

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Purpose
– This paper aims to review the literature on the balanced scorecard (BSC) system. The BSC may well be one of the most popular performance measurement systems, but this is not synonymous with successful. The inventors of the BSC, Kaplan and Norton, actually emphasize that a BSC can only really impact the organizational performance if it is linked to the actors’ intrinsic and extrinsic incentives. As BSC has existed for more than 20 years, the authors find it relevant to survey the extant literature which elaborates on the BSC-incentives link within organizations.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper identifies 117 empirical studies from leading academic journals published between 1992 and 2012 and then assesses 30 of these studies, which present the BSC-compensation link within the BSC literature. The authors analyze both research design (authors’ perspective) and the actual findings in the field (organizations’ perspective).

Findings
– First, it was found that only 30 of 117 empirical studies have a research design that is comprehensive enough to capture a full BSC as suggested by Kaplan and Norton, and only six of these studies elaborate on the link between the BSC and compensation. Second, extant research lacks valid constructs for the BSC and focuses too much on planning (ex-ante) with the BSC and not sufficiently on evaluation and control (ex-post). Third, the authors demonstrate that empirical BSC literature relies very strongly on field research in small and medium enterprises compared to similar research. Overall, the authors claim that the “relevance” of the BSC remains unproven.

Originality/value
– The authors synthesize the empirical BSC literature and derive a future research agenda.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftJournal of Accounting and Organizational Change
Jahrgang10
Ausgabenummer4
Seiten (von - bis)431-465
Anzahl der Seiten35
ISSN1832-5912
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 2014
Extern publiziertJa

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