Rajiv D. Banker''
(born 1953, deceased March 1, 2023)
was an accounting researcher and educator, recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information ( Web of Science) as one of the 150 most influential researchers in economics and business. He is the Director of the Center for Accounting and Information Technology at the

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. He is also President of the International Data Envelopment Analysis Society and Editor-in-Chief of the Data Envelopment Analysis Journal.

Education and early career

Banker obtained his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Bombay in 1973, and his Doctorate in Business Administration at

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in 1980. His early research focused on

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, operational efficiency, and data envelopment analysis. His research on data envelopment analysis includes 15 articles co-authored with

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from 1984 to 2011. In 1995, Banker co-authored a textbook called ''Management Accounting'' with Anthony Akinson,

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and Mark Young. This textbook is now in its third edition. He also co-authored a book on the balanced scorecard. From mid 2004 to early 2005, Banker served only a short term as Dean of the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of California Riverside, during which he spent considerable time in India conducting research, and then later served as a "special assistant" in the chancellor's office after leaving his position as Dean.

Current research

From 2014 to 2016, Banker's research contributions include 15 articles on

accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "languag ...

information systems An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, information storage, store, and information distribution, distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems a ...

, operations management and management science. Many of these articles were published in top journals, such as the

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Accounting Review,

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, and

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. Banker is currently working on stochastic DEA with Professor Ruggiero.

Awards

Banker has received five prestigious awards from the

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. These awards include the Lifetime Contribution to Management Accounting Award (2017), the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award (2015)(2002), the Journal of Management Accounting Research Best Paper Award (2004), and the Award for Notable Contribution to Public Sector Accounting Literature (1991).http://www2.aaahq.org/awards/InventoryofAwards08.pdf He has received three teaching awards, based on votes from graduate and undergraduate students.

Selected publications

* “Demand Uncertainty and Cost Behavior” with D. Byzalov and J. Plehn-Dujowich, The Accounting Review, 89, 3, (May 2014), pp. 839–865. * “An Empirical Investigation of an Incentive Plan that Includes Nonfinancial Performance Measures,” with G. Potter and D. Srinivasan, Accounting Review, 75, 1, (January 2000), pp. 65–92. * “An Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis with Some of its Models and Their Uses,” with

Abraham Charnes Abraham Charnes (September 4, 1917 – December 19, 1992) was an American mathematician who worked in the area of operations research. Charnes published more than 200 research articles and seven books, including ''An Introduction to Linear Progra ...

, J. Swarts and D. Thomas, Research in Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting, (1989), pp. 125–164 * “Constrained Game Formulations and Interpretations for Data Envelopment Analysis,” with

, R. Clarke, and

, European Journal of Operational Research, (1989), pp. 299–308. * “Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis,” with

and

, Management Science, 30, 9, (September 1984), pp. 1078–1092.

References

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