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

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

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2015
Number of items: 16.

2022

Alawattage, C. , Jayathileka, C., Hitibandara, R. and Withanage, S. (2022) Moral economy, performative materialism, and political rhetorics of sustainability accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102507) (In Press)

Alawattage, C. and Azure, J. D.-C. (2022) Theorising the ‘African problem’ with governmentality and counter conduct. African Accounting and Finance Journal, 4(1), pp. 14-28.

Wickramasinghe, D. , Alawattage, C. , Parker, L. and Favotto, A. (2022) Connecting Global SDGs to Local Government: A Developing Country Case. In: Adams, C. A. (ed.) Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham. ISBN 9781800373501 (Accepted for Publication)

Alawattage, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. (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, C. and Azure, J. D.-C. (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, D. , Alawattage, C. and Cooper, C. (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, C., Graham, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. (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, A., Whittington, M. and Alawattage, C. (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, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. (2018) Strategizing Management Accounting: Liberal Origins and Neoliberal Trends. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138783546 (doi: 10.4324/9781315768632)

Alawattage, C. and Alsaid, L. A. (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, D. and Alawattage, C. (2017) Interpretivism. In: Roslender, R. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Critical Accounting. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: New York, pp. 17-36. ISBN 9781138025257

Alawattage, C., Wickramasinghe, D. and Uddin, S. (2017) Theorising management accounting practices in less developed countries. In: Harris, E. (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, C. and Fernando, S. (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, C., Wickramasinghe, D. , Tsamenyi, M. and Uddin, S. (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, C. and Elshihry, M. (2017) The managerialism in neoliberal global governance: the case of OECD. In: Littoz-Monnet, A. (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. , Wickramasinghe, D. 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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Number of items: 16.

Articles

Alawattage, C. , Jayathileka, C., Hitibandara, R. and Withanage, S. (2022) Moral economy, performative materialism, and political rhetorics of sustainability accounting. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102507) (In Press)

Alawattage, C. and Azure, J. D.-C. (2022) Theorising the ‘African problem’ with governmentality and counter conduct. African Accounting and Finance Journal, 4(1), pp. 14-28.

Alawattage, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. (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, C. and Azure, J. D.-C. (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, D. , Alawattage, C. and Cooper, C. (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, C., Graham, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. (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, A., Whittington, M. and Alawattage, C. (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, C. and Alsaid, L. A. (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, C. and Fernando, S. (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, C., Wickramasinghe, D. , Tsamenyi, M. and Uddin, S. (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, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. (2018) Strategizing Management Accounting: Liberal Origins and Neoliberal Trends. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138783546 (doi: 10.4324/9781315768632)

Book Sections

Wickramasinghe, D. , Alawattage, C. , Parker, L. and Favotto, A. (2022) Connecting Global SDGs to Local Government: A Developing Country Case. In: Adams, C. A. (ed.) Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham. ISBN 9781800373501 (Accepted for Publication)

Wickramasinghe, D. and Alawattage, C. (2017) Interpretivism. In: Roslender, R. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Critical Accounting. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: New York, pp. 17-36. ISBN 9781138025257

Alawattage, C., Wickramasinghe, D. and Uddin, S. (2017) Theorising management accounting practices in less developed countries. In: Harris, E. (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, C. and Elshihry, M. (2017) The managerialism in neoliberal global governance: the case of OECD. In: Littoz-Monnet, A. (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. , Wickramasinghe, D. 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 Tue Dec 6 08:33:43 2022 GMT.

Supervision

Current supervision

  • Rahman, Rehenuma
    Sustainable Development Goals, Accountability and Governance: A case of Bangladesh.
  • Santoso, Nanda Trio
    Does Political Language Shape Public Sector Accounting Reform
  • Zaki, Ahmad
    Exploring Stakeholder Engagement of Indonesian Financial Institutions in their Social Media Communication

Teaching

  • Strategic management accounting
  • Accounting theory
  • Research methodologies