Dr Katlijn Haesebrouck (K.)

Katlijn Haesebrouck is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Maastricht University. She holds a Ph.D. from KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research and teaching focus on managerial accounting and control, with a particular focus on behavioral approaches and experimental methods. 

Katlijn’s research examines how management control systems shape behavior in organizations. A central theme in her work is knowledge sharing in organizations. She investigates how incentive systems and organizational hierarchies affect whether and how employees share information, including the misreporting of information. Her work is published in journals such as The Accounting Review , Accounting Organizations and Society and Contemporary Accounting Research.

She is currently involved in a project funded by the Foundation for Auditing Research, titled “Culture controls in audit firms”. This project explores how audit firms in the Netherlands use culture as a control mechanism, the extent to which these controls foster internalization of quality objectives among auditors, and which factors shape this relationship.

Beyond her research, Katlijn is actively engaged in academic service and leadership. She serves on the editorial board of Behavioral Research in Accounting and Management Accounting Research. She is a board member of the SBE Elinor Ostrom Fund which supports female scholars and enhances diversity at Maastricht University's School of Business and Economics. She is also a member of the UM Behavioral Insights Center.

Katlijn coordinates and teaches managerial accounting and information management courses, and supervises BSc, MSc, and PhD students.