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Biographies for Volume 20, Nos. 4–5
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Biographies for Volume 20, Nos. 4±5 Mark C. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Florida and holds Masters degrees from the University of Alberta and the University of Rochester. His research has examined asymmetries in cost behavior, relations between executive compensation and ®rm performance, and economic consequences of investments in information technology. Dr. Anderson has made presentations at annual meetings of the American Accounting Association and the European Accounting Association, and has published papers in Management Science, Managerial Finance, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Rick Antle is Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Accounting at the Yale School of Management. Professor Antle received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and was formerly a member of faculty at the University of Chicago. He is an expert in areas involving the interface of accounting and economics. He has published widely on topics such as auditors' independence, auditors' incentives, and the economics of accounting ®rms, managerial compensation and performance evaluation, revenue recognition, capital investment decisions and transfer pricing. Sharad Asthana is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, obtained his Ph.D. in Accounting from University of Texas at Austin in 1995. Sharad's primary research interests are empirical ®nancial accounting, market response to accounting information, and manager's incentives to manipulate accounting disclosures. His major articles have been published in Contemporary Accounting Research. Accounting and the Public Interest, and Journal of Business Research. Steve Balsam, Associate Professor of Accounting and Merves Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, obtained his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (Baruch College) in 1991. His research interests are in the areas of executive compensation and capital markets. He has published articles in academic accounting journals including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Accounting Horizons. C. Richard Baker is an Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Prior to joining the University of Massachusetts, he held academic positions at Columbia, Fordham, and St. John's Universities in New York City. In addition, he served as an Audit Manager with a `Big 5' accounting ®rm, a Vice President with several investment banks, and a Controller for an energy development company. Dr. Baker is the co-author of six books dealing with accounting, ®nance and taxation. He has also authored or co-authored over ®fty academic and professional papers. He has been an active member of the accounting Elsevier Science Inc. PII: S 0 2 7 8 - 4 2 5 4 ( 0 1 ) 0 0 0 4 2 - 4
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profession, having served on committees of the American Institute of CPAs, the New York State Society of CPAs and the American Accounting Association. In addition, he has been a frequent speaker and presenter of papers at academic and professional meetings. He has served as a ®nancial advisor and consultant to development stage companies, and he has been an expert witness on accounting matters in several legal proceedings. His current research interests are focused on the regulatory, legal and ethical aspects of the accounting profession. Dr. Baker holds a Ph.D. from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Certi®ed Public Accountant in New York State. Rajiv D. Banker is the Ashbel Smith Chair in Accounting and Information Management and the Director of Accounting and Information Management Programs at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Banker received a Bachelor of Science degree with Highest Honors from the University of Bombay concentrating in Mathematics and Economics. He received a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University concentrating in Planning and Control Systems. Dr. Banker is internationally recognized as a leader in interdisciplinary research in management and has received numerous awards for his research. He has published more than 100 articles in prestigious research journals including Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Communications of ACM, IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Econometrica. Dr. Banker's research interests range from analytical modeling to statistical analysis of data collected from dierent companies to address complex or emerging problems of importance to managers. His research in accounting addresses questions pertaining to performance measurement, incentive compensation, strategic cost management and public accounting industry analysis. His research on information systems explores issues of e-business competitive strategy, investments in information technology, software productivity and quality metrics, and management of software development and maintenance. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Financial Executives Research Foundation, the Institute of Management Accountants, and several leading corporations. Jean BeÂdard is Professor of Accounting at Universite Laval, Canada. His main research interest is in the area of auditing. He is currently studying the disciplinary practices of the accounting profession and the functioning and eectiveness of audit committees. Peter Bogetoft is presently Professor of Managerial Economics at Department of Economics and Natural Resources, Royal Agricultural University, Denmark. He has previously been aliated with Aarhus University, Odense University, Copenhagen Business School, Yale School of Management and University of California Davis. He has been associate and guest editor at journals like Negotiation and Group Decision Making, European Journal of Operational Research and Journal of Productivity Analysis. His research interests include (i) decision theory with focus on multiple criteria decision making, (ii) incentive and contract theories, and (iii) productivity analysis. He has published books at North-Holland Publishing Company and Springer Verlag on these areas as well as numerous articles in journals like Management Science, European Journal of Political Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, and Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry. Lawrence D. Brown's principal research interests are in the use of ®nancial information by capital market participants, primarily security analysts. He is the author or co-author of over 70 publications, and he has made more than 100 presentations at universities and professional conferences. He is Associate Editor of International Journal of Forecasting,
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Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and is an Editorial Board Member of The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, and has twice served as Accounting Chair for its Annual Conference. Dr. Brown regularly serves as a reviewer for leading professional and academic journals. Huong Ngo Higgins is an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Department of Management. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Georgia State University. Stephen E. Loeb is the Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Accounting and Business Ethics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a past co-editor of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Ram Natarajan is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Natarajan received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in the determinants of CEO compensation, use of accounting performance measures for performance evaluation, links between corporate disclosure policies and managerial incentives and analysis of productivity and eciency in organizations. His papers have been published in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and Managerial Finance. Sury Ravindran is an Assistant Professor in the School of Accountancy and Information Management at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. His research interests include information and knowledge management, and the impacts of IT investments and innovative practices in the IT industry. His research has been published in Management Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Brian P. Shapiro is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in behavioral decision research in accounting and other business contexts; experimental economics; history, sociology, and philosophy of external ®nancial reporting; and critical discourse analysis (the relations between language, accounting, and other social practices). His work has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Advances in Accounting, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Discourse Processes, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Memory & Cognition. Andrew Stark is currently Professor of Accounting at the Manchester Business School in the United Kingdom, having held prior faculty positions at Yale School of Management, and the Universities of Essex, Ulster, Maryland and Manchester. In 1999 and 2000 he was the chairman of the British Accounting Association. He is currently one of the editors of the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and is the past joint editor of the British Accounting Review. His research interests include (i) estimating economic performance using ®nancial statement data; (ii) the value relevance of research and development expenditure, and other expenditures on intangibles; (iii) the impact of real options concepts on management accounting and control systems; and (iv) the use of principal-agent analyses to analyze optimal investment decision-making in a variety of contexts. He has published work in these areas in Abacus, Accounting and Business Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Management Accounting Research, and Oxford Economic Papers.
Biographies for Volume 20, Nos. 4±5 Mark C. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Florida and holds Masters degrees from the University of Alberta and the University of Rochester. His research has examined asymmetries in cost behavior, relations between executive compensation and ®rm performance, and economic consequences of investments in information technology. Dr. Anderson has made presentations at annual meetings of the American Accounting Association and the European Accounting Association, and has published papers in Management Science, Managerial Finance, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Rick Antle is Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Accounting at the Yale School of Management. Professor Antle received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and was formerly a member of faculty at the University of Chicago. He is an expert in areas involving the interface of accounting and economics. He has published widely on topics such as auditors' independence, auditors' incentives, and the economics of accounting ®rms, managerial compensation and performance evaluation, revenue recognition, capital investment decisions and transfer pricing. Sharad Asthana is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, obtained his Ph.D. in Accounting from University of Texas at Austin in 1995. Sharad's primary research interests are empirical ®nancial accounting, market response to accounting information, and manager's incentives to manipulate accounting disclosures. His major articles have been published in Contemporary Accounting Research. Accounting and the Public Interest, and Journal of Business Research. Steve Balsam, Associate Professor of Accounting and Merves Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, obtained his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (Baruch College) in 1991. His research interests are in the areas of executive compensation and capital markets. He has published articles in academic accounting journals including the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Accounting Horizons. C. Richard Baker is an Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Prior to joining the University of Massachusetts, he held academic positions at Columbia, Fordham, and St. John's Universities in New York City. In addition, he served as an Audit Manager with a `Big 5' accounting ®rm, a Vice President with several investment banks, and a Controller for an energy development company. Dr. Baker is the co-author of six books dealing with accounting, ®nance and taxation. He has also authored or co-authored over ®fty academic and professional papers. He has been an active member of the accounting Elsevier Science Inc. PII: S 0 2 7 8 - 4 2 5 4 ( 0 1 ) 0 0 0 4 2 - 4
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profession, having served on committees of the American Institute of CPAs, the New York State Society of CPAs and the American Accounting Association. In addition, he has been a frequent speaker and presenter of papers at academic and professional meetings. He has served as a ®nancial advisor and consultant to development stage companies, and he has been an expert witness on accounting matters in several legal proceedings. His current research interests are focused on the regulatory, legal and ethical aspects of the accounting profession. Dr. Baker holds a Ph.D. from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Certi®ed Public Accountant in New York State. Rajiv D. Banker is the Ashbel Smith Chair in Accounting and Information Management and the Director of Accounting and Information Management Programs at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Banker received a Bachelor of Science degree with Highest Honors from the University of Bombay concentrating in Mathematics and Economics. He received a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University concentrating in Planning and Control Systems. Dr. Banker is internationally recognized as a leader in interdisciplinary research in management and has received numerous awards for his research. He has published more than 100 articles in prestigious research journals including Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Communications of ACM, IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Econometrica. Dr. Banker's research interests range from analytical modeling to statistical analysis of data collected from dierent companies to address complex or emerging problems of importance to managers. His research in accounting addresses questions pertaining to performance measurement, incentive compensation, strategic cost management and public accounting industry analysis. His research on information systems explores issues of e-business competitive strategy, investments in information technology, software productivity and quality metrics, and management of software development and maintenance. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Financial Executives Research Foundation, the Institute of Management Accountants, and several leading corporations. Jean BeÂdard is Professor of Accounting at Universite Laval, Canada. His main research interest is in the area of auditing. He is currently studying the disciplinary practices of the accounting profession and the functioning and eectiveness of audit committees. Peter Bogetoft is presently Professor of Managerial Economics at Department of Economics and Natural Resources, Royal Agricultural University, Denmark. He has previously been aliated with Aarhus University, Odense University, Copenhagen Business School, Yale School of Management and University of California Davis. He has been associate and guest editor at journals like Negotiation and Group Decision Making, European Journal of Operational Research and Journal of Productivity Analysis. His research interests include (i) decision theory with focus on multiple criteria decision making, (ii) incentive and contract theories, and (iii) productivity analysis. He has published books at North-Holland Publishing Company and Springer Verlag on these areas as well as numerous articles in journals like Management Science, European Journal of Political Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, and Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry. Lawrence D. Brown's principal research interests are in the use of ®nancial information by capital market participants, primarily security analysts. He is the author or co-author of over 70 publications, and he has made more than 100 presentations at universities and professional conferences. He is Associate Editor of International Journal of Forecasting,
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Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and is an Editorial Board Member of The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, and has twice served as Accounting Chair for its Annual Conference. Dr. Brown regularly serves as a reviewer for leading professional and academic journals. Huong Ngo Higgins is an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Department of Management. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Georgia State University. Stephen E. Loeb is the Ernst & Young Alumni Professor of Accounting and Business Ethics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a past co-editor of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Ram Natarajan is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Natarajan received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in the determinants of CEO compensation, use of accounting performance measures for performance evaluation, links between corporate disclosure policies and managerial incentives and analysis of productivity and eciency in organizations. His papers have been published in The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and Managerial Finance. Sury Ravindran is an Assistant Professor in the School of Accountancy and Information Management at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. His research interests include information and knowledge management, and the impacts of IT investments and innovative practices in the IT industry. His research has been published in Management Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Brian P. Shapiro is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in behavioral decision research in accounting and other business contexts; experimental economics; history, sociology, and philosophy of external ®nancial reporting; and critical discourse analysis (the relations between language, accounting, and other social practices). His work has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Advances in Accounting, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Discourse Processes, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Memory & Cognition. Andrew Stark is currently Professor of Accounting at the Manchester Business School in the United Kingdom, having held prior faculty positions at Yale School of Management, and the Universities of Essex, Ulster, Maryland and Manchester. In 1999 and 2000 he was the chairman of the British Accounting Association. He is currently one of the editors of the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and is the past joint editor of the British Accounting Review. His research interests include (i) estimating economic performance using ®nancial statement data; (ii) the value relevance of research and development expenditure, and other expenditures on intangibles; (iii) the impact of real options concepts on management accounting and control systems; and (iv) the use of principal-agent analyses to analyze optimal investment decision-making in a variety of contexts. He has published work in these areas in Abacus, Accounting and Business Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Management Accounting Research, and Oxford Economic Papers.