Dr. Daqun Zhang

Education

Ph.D. in Accounting: Temple University, 2015
Ph.D. in Management Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 2009
B.S. in Information Management and Information Systems, University of Science and Technology of China, 2003


Joined the faculty in 2016

  • Research Interests: Cost Accounting, Data Envelopment Analysis, Executive Compensation
  • Teaching Interests: Managerial Accounting, Strategic Cost Management, Cost Accounting, Accounting Topics, Accounting Information Systems, Financial Accounting

Biography

Dr. Daqun David Zhang joined the College of Business, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi as an assistant professor of Accounting in 2016. He holds a PhD in Management Science from the University of Science and Technology of China and a PhD in Accounting from Temple University. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Kent (UK) in 2006. He has published more than twenty coauthored papers in high-impact journals, such as Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Managerial Auditing Journal, Omega, Research Policy, and Decision Analytics Journal. His research has attracted wide attention and been cited thousands of times.

Selected Publications

  • The Returns to Scale Assumption in Incentive Rate Regulation (with Rajiv Banker), European Journal of Operational Research (2026)
  • Implications of Generative AI Technology on Auditing Practice and Research - a Commentary (with Jie Zhou), Managerial Auditing Journal (2026) 
  • The Impact of the Use of Cross-border Compensation Peers: The Case of Canadian Companies using U.S. Peers (with Steven Balsam, Hong Fan, and Amin Mawani), Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (2022)
  • Two-stage estimation of the impact of contextual variables in stochastic frontier production function models using Data Envelopment Analysis: Second stage OLS versus bootstrap approaches (with Rajiv Banker, and Ram Natarajan), European Journal of Operational Research (2019)
  • Performance Impact of Research Policy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (with Rajiv Banker, Xiaoxuan Li, and Wenbin Liu), Research Policy (2011)

 

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