Professor Chandana Alawattage

  • Professor in Accounting, Tax and Audit (Accounting & Finance)

email: Chandana.Alawattage@glasgow.ac.uk

Adam Smith Business School, Room 671, Main Building, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680

Biography

Chandana joined the Adam Smith Business School as a Professor of Accounting in September 2019. Before coming to Glasgow, he was the Chair in Accounting at the University of Aberdeen Business School. He has experience of teaching and research in accounting and related subjects for more than 20 years now.
Chandana is internationally known as a critical accounting scholar through his publications in leading accounting journals, such as:

  • Accounting, Organisations, and Society (AOS)
  • Critical perspectives on Accounting (CPA)
  • Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ)

Well-received academic texts include:

  • “Strategizing management accounting: liberal origins and neoliberal trends” (2019)
  • “Management accounting change: approaches and perspectives” (2007)

Among many other themes, he has published extensively on the issues pertaining to how western managerial and development discourses implicate on the polities, societies and the economies of the peripheral nations, and how people in peripheral nations accommodate and resist such discourses. His research has interesting ethnographic insights into the ways in which the dialectic between the global discourses and local practices takes place. He has extensively drawn on Marxist and post-Marxist social theories to theorise the connections between the global and the local.

Research interests

Chandana is a member of the School's Accounting research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

  • Cultural political-economy of accounting, organisational control, and governance
  • Accountability and sustainable development
  • Neoliberalism and accounting

Publications

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2026

Ang, Soon Yong, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 (2026) Climate (in)justice: decolonize public sector climate accountability and accounting for the Majority World. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, (Accepted for Publication)

2025

Sales de Aguia, Thereza Raquel, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Thorne, John (2025) Dialogic and agonistic possibilities and limits of visual accounting: an action research of carbon emission reporting in Scottish city council. Public Management Review, (doi: 10.1080/14719037.2025.2595134) (Early Online Publication)

Ahmed, Shoaib, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Jayasinghe, Kelum (2025) Mastanocracy: the legitimization of criminal governance and violence in Bangladesh’s garment industry. Human Relations, (doi: 10.1177/00187267251383441) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2024) Teaching strategic management accounting with sustainability. Accounting Education, (doi: 10.1080/09639284.2024.2404923) (Early Online Publication)

De-Clerk Azure, John, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and George Lauwo, Sarah (2024) Politics of fiscal discipline: counter-conducting the World Bank’s public financial management reforms. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 37(4), pp. 1012-1040. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-04-2022-5761)

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 (2024) Postcolonialism in accounting. In: Vollmer, Hendrik (ed.) Handbook of Accounting in Society. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 344-362. ISBN 9781803921990 (doi: 10.4337/9781803922003.00040)

2023

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680, Jayathileka, Chaya, Hitibandara, Rakshitha and Withanage, Sashika (2023) Moral economy, performative materialism, and political rhetorics of sustainability accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 95, 102507. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102507)

2022

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680, Parker, Lee ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2335-6857 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2022) Connecting global SDGs to local government: a developing country case. In: Adams, Carol A. (ed.) Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability. Series: Research handbooks in accounting. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, pp. 191-208. ISBN 9781800373518 (doi: 10.4337/9781800373518.00018)

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Azure, John De-Clerk (2022) Theorising the ‘African problem’ with governmentality and counter conduct. African Accounting and Finance Journal, 4(1), pp. 14-28.

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2022) Strategising management accounting: liberal origins and neoliberal trends. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 35(2), pp. 518-546. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-01-2021-5124)

2021

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Azure, John De-Clerk (2021) Behind the World Bank’s ringing declarations of “social accountability”: Ghana’s public financial management reform. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 78, 102075. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2019.02.002)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Cooper, Christine (2021) Neoliberalism and management accounting: reconfiguring governmentality and extending territories: commentary. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(3), pp. 489-504. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-01-2021-5077)

2019

Alawattage, Chandana, Graham, Cameron and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2019) Microaccountability and biopolitics: microfinance in a Sri Lankan village. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 72, pp. 38-60. (doi: 10.1016/j.aos.2018.05.008)

Helfaya, Akrum, Whittington, Mark and Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 (2019) Exploring the quality of corporate environmental reporting: surveying preparers’ and users’ perceptions. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 32(1), pp. 163-193. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-04-2015-2023)

2018

Alawattage, Chandana and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2018) Strategizing Management Accounting: Liberal Origins and Neoliberal Trends. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138783546 (doi: 10.4324/9781315768632)

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Alsaid, Loai Ali (2018) Accounting and structural reforms: a case study of Egyptian electricity. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 50, pp. 15-35. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2017.09.001)

2017

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Alawattage, Chandana (2017) Interpretivism. In: Roslender, Robin (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Critical Accounting. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: New York, pp. 17-36. ISBN 9781138025257

Alawattage, Chandana, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Uddin, Shahzad (2017) Theorising management accounting practices in less developed countries. In: Harris, Elaine (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Performance Management and Control. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 287-305. ISBN 9781138913547

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Fernando, Susith (2017) Postcoloniality in corporate social and environmental accountability. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 60, pp. 1-20. (doi: 10.1016/j.aos.2017.07.002)

Alawattage, Chandana, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Tsamenyi, Mathew and Uddin, Shazhad (2017) Doing critical management accounting research in emerging economies. Advances in Scientific and Applied Accounting, 10(2), pp. 177-188. (doi: 10.14392/asaa.2017100203)

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Elshihry, Manal (2017) The managerialism in neoliberal global governance: the case of OECD. In: Littoz-Monnet, Annabelle (ed.) The Politics of Expertise in International Organizations: How International Bureaucracies Produce and Mobilize Knowledge. Series: Global institutions series (127). Routledge: London, pp. 167-186. ISBN 9781138687257

2015

Alawattage, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680, Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Tennakoon, A. (2015) Performing civil society. In: Hoque, Z. and Parker, L. (eds.) Performance Management in Nonprofit Organizations: Global Perspectives. Series: Routledge studies in the management of voluntary and non-profit organizations (17). Routledge: London, pp. 394-418. ISBN 9781138787988

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Articles

Ang, Soon Yong, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 (2026) Climate (in)justice: decolonize public sector climate accountability and accounting for the Majority World. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, (Accepted for Publication)

Sales de Aguia, Thereza Raquel, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Thorne, John (2025) Dialogic and agonistic possibilities and limits of visual accounting: an action research of carbon emission reporting in Scottish city council. Public Management Review, (doi: 10.1080/14719037.2025.2595134) (Early Online Publication)

Ahmed, Shoaib, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Jayasinghe, Kelum (2025) Mastanocracy: the legitimization of criminal governance and violence in Bangladesh’s garment industry. Human Relations, (doi: 10.1177/00187267251383441) (Early Online Publication)

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2024) Teaching strategic management accounting with sustainability. Accounting Education, (doi: 10.1080/09639284.2024.2404923) (Early Online Publication)

De-Clerk Azure, John, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and George Lauwo, Sarah (2024) Politics of fiscal discipline: counter-conducting the World Bank’s public financial management reforms. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 37(4), pp. 1012-1040. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-04-2022-5761)

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680, Jayathileka, Chaya, Hitibandara, Rakshitha and Withanage, Sashika (2023) Moral economy, performative materialism, and political rhetorics of sustainability accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 95, 102507. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102507)

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Azure, John De-Clerk (2022) Theorising the ‘African problem’ with governmentality and counter conduct. African Accounting and Finance Journal, 4(1), pp. 14-28.

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2022) Strategising management accounting: liberal origins and neoliberal trends. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 35(2), pp. 518-546. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-01-2021-5124)

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Azure, John De-Clerk (2021) Behind the World Bank’s ringing declarations of “social accountability”: Ghana’s public financial management reform. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 78, 102075. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2019.02.002)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Cooper, Christine (2021) Neoliberalism and management accounting: reconfiguring governmentality and extending territories: commentary. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(3), pp. 489-504. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-01-2021-5077)

Alawattage, Chandana, Graham, Cameron and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2019) Microaccountability and biopolitics: microfinance in a Sri Lankan village. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 72, pp. 38-60. (doi: 10.1016/j.aos.2018.05.008)

Helfaya, Akrum, Whittington, Mark and Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 (2019) Exploring the quality of corporate environmental reporting: surveying preparers’ and users’ perceptions. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 32(1), pp. 163-193. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-04-2015-2023)

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Alsaid, Loai Ali (2018) Accounting and structural reforms: a case study of Egyptian electricity. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 50, pp. 15-35. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2017.09.001)

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Fernando, Susith (2017) Postcoloniality in corporate social and environmental accountability. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 60, pp. 1-20. (doi: 10.1016/j.aos.2017.07.002)

Alawattage, Chandana, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Tsamenyi, Mathew and Uddin, Shazhad (2017) Doing critical management accounting research in emerging economies. Advances in Scientific and Applied Accounting, 10(2), pp. 177-188. (doi: 10.14392/asaa.2017100203)

Books

Alawattage, Chandana and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2018) Strategizing Management Accounting: Liberal Origins and Neoliberal Trends. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138783546 (doi: 10.4324/9781315768632)

Book Sections

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 (2024) Postcolonialism in accounting. In: Vollmer, Hendrik (ed.) Handbook of Accounting in Society. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 344-362. ISBN 9781803921990 (doi: 10.4337/9781803922003.00040)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680, Parker, Lee ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2335-6857 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2022) Connecting global SDGs to local government: a developing country case. In: Adams, Carol A. (ed.) Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability. Series: Research handbooks in accounting. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, pp. 191-208. ISBN 9781800373518 (doi: 10.4337/9781800373518.00018)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Alawattage, Chandana (2017) Interpretivism. In: Roslender, Robin (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Critical Accounting. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: New York, pp. 17-36. ISBN 9781138025257

Alawattage, Chandana, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Uddin, Shahzad (2017) Theorising management accounting practices in less developed countries. In: Harris, Elaine (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Performance Management and Control. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 287-305. ISBN 9781138913547

Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680 and Elshihry, Manal (2017) The managerialism in neoliberal global governance: the case of OECD. In: Littoz-Monnet, Annabelle (ed.) The Politics of Expertise in International Organizations: How International Bureaucracies Produce and Mobilize Knowledge. Series: Global institutions series (127). Routledge: London, pp. 167-186. ISBN 9781138687257

Alawattage, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680, Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Tennakoon, A. (2015) Performing civil society. In: Hoque, Z. and Parker, L. (eds.) Performance Management in Nonprofit Organizations: Global Perspectives. Series: Routledge studies in the management of voluntary and non-profit organizations (17). Routledge: London, pp. 394-418. ISBN 9781138787988

This list was generated on Thu Jan 15 02:03:42 2026 GMT.

Supervision

Current supervision

  • Nie, Zixiang
    Practising Accountability in NGO Microfinance: Ethnographic Insights from a Village Bank in China
  • Santoso, Nanda Trio
    Institutionalisation of New Public Management and Accountability Practices in Indonesia’s Higher Education
  • Sidauruk, Diana Laurencia
    Techno-sociology of Tax: Digitalisation of Tax Audits in Indonesia.

Teaching

  • Strategic management accounting
  • Accounting theory
  • Research methodologies