Henri Dekker earns AICPA Best Early Career Researcher Award.

Henri Dekker, Ph.D., associate professor of accounting at VU University, Amsterdam Research Center in Accounting, Netherlands, was awarded the Best Early Career Researcher Award on Aug. 3, 2009, at the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association.

The AICPA gives the $2,000 grant to the researcher with the best overall body of research in management accounting completed within the first five years of joining a faculty. Dekker's research on accounting and control in inter-firm relationships, strategy and management control, performance measurement, goal...