Professor Danture Wickramasinghe

  • Professor in Accounting (Accounting & Finance)

telephone: 0141 330 5575
email: Danture.Wickramasinghe@glasgow.ac.uk

Gilbert Scott Building, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147

Biography

Professor Danture Wickramasinghe is a distinguished academic renowned for his expertise in accounting, accountability, and governance, particularly within the context of the Global South. Currently, he holds the prestigious Chair in Management Accounting at Adam Smith Business School, a testament to his outstanding contributions to the field.

Previously, Professor Wickramasinghe served as the Chair in Management Accounting and Director of the Research Centre in Accounting and Accountability at Hull University Business School. His tenure at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, saw him excel as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Programme Director of the MSc in Accounting and Finance, and Coordinator of the Management Accounting Module on the Global MBA Programme. Before moving to the United Kingdom, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Management & Finance and the Head of the Department of Commerce at the University of Colombo, as well as the Head of the Department of Business Administration and a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.

With over 42 years in academia, Professor Wickramasinghe has established himself as a globally recognised critical researcher in accounting within developing countries. His scholarly work includes more than 50 publications in renowned journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society; Auditing and Accountability Journal; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Accounting and Business Research; Accounting Forum; Accounting & Organizational Change; Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management; and Accounting in Emerging Economies. His presence on the editorial boards of six prestigious journals and his role as co-author and editor of landmark books in accounting underscore his influence in the field. His contributions to several edited collections and numerous presentations at international conferences and workshops further highlight his expertise and impact.

Professor Wickramasinghe has supervised 24 PhD students across institutions like Manchester and Glasgow and examined numerous PhDs globally, including in the UK, Australia, Norway, France, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. He currently supervises several PhD students at Glasgow, focusing on topics such as management accounting, controls and governance, critical perspectives on accounting and accountability, sustainability and accounting, and microfinance and accounting.

In addition to his extensive academic career, Professor Wickramasinghe holds three honorary professorships at universities in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia. His international research collaborations span institutions like Paris Dauphine University, Nord University in Norway, Manchester Business School, and York University in Canada. Through his remarkable academic journey, Professor Danture Wickramasinghe continues to make significant contributions to the fields of accounting, accountability, and governance, with a keen focus on the Global South.

Research interests

Danture is a member of the Accounting research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

  • Cultural political economy of management accounting and controls in developing countries. 
  • Governance and accountability in globally diffused reform programmes, poverty alleviation and participative development projects.
  • Emerging practices of accounting, governance and accountability 'new' organisational configurations.

Publications

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Number of items: 55.

2025

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Adhikari, Pawan, Steccolini, Ileana and Jayasinghe, Kelum (2025) The recovery of public sector accounting as a site of possibility: publicness and localised-led development. Financial Accountability and Management, (Accepted for Publication)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2025) The Resilience of New Public Management. Edited by Irvine Lapsley and Peter Miller, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 400. $145 (hardback). ISBN: 9780198883814. Regulation and Governance, (doi: 10.1111/rego.70031)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)

2024

Ang, Soon Yong and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2024) Cultivating public value and accountability beyond NPM: a non-western perspective. Financial Accountability and Management, (Accepted for 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)

2023

Ahmed, Zahir, Hopper, Trevor and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2023) From minnow to mighty: a hegemonic analysis of social accountability in BRAC - the world's largest development NGO. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 92, 102503. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102503)

Ang, Soon Yong and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2023) Ethical disputes, coordinating acts and NGO accountability: evidence from an NGO river-care programme in Malaysia. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 92, 102416. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102416)

2022

Bracci, Enrico, Mouhcine, Tallaki, Rana, Tarek and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2022) Risk management and management accounting control systems in public sector organizations: a systematic literature review. Public Money and Management, 42(6), pp. 395-402. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2021.1963071)

Rana, Tarek, Bracci, Enrico and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2022) Management accounting and risk management—research and reflections. Public Money and Management, 42(6), pp. 361-364. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2022.2080917)

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 (2022) Towards being critical in accounting research within LDCs. African Accounting and Finance Journal, 4(1), pp. 29-37.

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

Joannides de Lautour, Vassili, Hoque, Zahirul and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2021) Operationalising ethnicity in accountability: Insights from an ethnic group within the Salvation Army. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(8), pp. 1883-1905. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-08-2013-1450)

Ahn, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0998-6270 and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2021) Pushing the limits of accountability: big-data analytics containing and controlling COVID-19 in South Korea. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(6), pp. 1320-1331. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-08-2020-4829)

Ang, Soon Yong and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2021) Capturing traditions and preserving outcomes: evidence from Malaysian river-care programmes. In: Hoque, Z. (ed.) Public Sector Reform and Performance Management in Emerging Economies: Outcomes-Based Approaches in Practice. Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367435523

Alam, Saiful, Ranasinghe, Seuwandhi B. and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2021) Another development challenge: gaining emancipation from a functional hegemony in accounting and management control research. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, 11(1), pp. 27-48. (doi: 10.1108/JAEE-02-2019-0039)

Ranasinghe, Seuwandhi B. and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2021) Unveiling a postcolonial neoliberalism: hybridised controls and emancipatory potentials for tea-plucking women in Sri Lanka. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(3), pp. 651-679. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-12-2018-3785)

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)

2020

Joannides de Lautour, Vassili, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Berland, Nicolas (2020) From critical accounting to an account of critique: The case of cultural emancipators. Accounting Forum, 44(2), pp. 132-159. (doi: 10.1080/01559982.2019.1588452)

2019

Alam, Saiful, Ranasinghe, Seuwandhi B. and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2019) Ethnographic significance in researching management accounting: Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. In: Weetman, P. and Tsalavoutas, I. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Accounting in Emerging Economies. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 235-246. ISBN 9780815356202 (doi: 10.4324/9781351128506-19)

Yazdifar, Hassan, Askarany, Davood, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Nasseri, Ahmad and Alam, Ashraful (2019) The diffusion of management accounting innovation in dependent (subsidiary) organisations and MNCs. International Journal of Accounting, 54(1), 1950004. (doi: 10.1142/S1094406019500045)

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)

Rana, Tarek, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Bracci, Enrico (2019) New development: Integrating risk management in management control systems—lessons for public sector managers. Public Money and Management, 39(2), pp. 148-151. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2019.1580921)

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)

Mohamad-Yusof, Nor-Zalina, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Zaman, Mahbub (2018) Corporate governance, critical junctures and ethnic politics: Ownership and boards in Malaysia. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 55, pp. 33-52. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2017.12.006)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2018) Power of accounting and power over accounting. In: Hoque, Zahirul (ed.) Methodological Issues in Accounting Research. Spiramus Press. ISBN 9781910151464

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, 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)

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

Hopper, Trevor, Ashraf, Junaid, Uddin, Shahzad and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2015) Social theorisation of accounting: challenges to positive research. In: Jones, Stewart (ed.) Routledge Companion to Financial Accounting Theory. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 452-471. ISBN 9780415660280

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2015) Getting management accounting off the ground: post-colonial neoliberalism in healthcare budgets. Accounting and Business Research, 45(3), pp. 323-355. (doi: 10.1080/00014788.2015.1009358)

2012

Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (Eds.) (2012) Handbook of Accounting and Development. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. ISBN 9781848448162

Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2012) Introduction: Accounting and Development. In: Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. (eds.) Handbook of Accounting and Development. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781848448162

Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2012) Privatization, market-based reform and management control. In: Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. (eds.) Handbook of Accounting and Development. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 206-223. ISBN 9781848448162

2011

Jayasinghe, K. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2011) Power over empowerment: encountering development accounting in a Sri Lankan fishing village. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 22(4), pp. 396-414. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2010.12.008)

Jazayeri, M., Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Gooneratne, T. (2011) Convergence versus divergence of performance measurement systems: lessons from spatial variations. Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, 8(3), pp. 292-314. (doi: 10.1108/11766091111162098)

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2011) Ontological dependency on epistemology strategy: interpretive management accounting reseach revisited. In: Abdel-Kader, M. (ed.) Review of Management Accounting Research. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9780230252370

2010

Herath, S.K., Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Indrani, M.W. (2010) Improving efficiency and accountability: a case study on outsourcing strategies in higher education in Sri Lanka. International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting, 2(3), p. 275. (doi: 10.1504/IJMFA.2010.034119)

Herath, S.K., Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Indrani, M.W. (2010) A teaching case on implementing an activity-based costing system in a service firm: Lakhiru Insurance Company. International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting, 2(2), p. 177. (doi: 10.1504/IJMFA.2010.033290)

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2010) Review of 'The official history of privatization, volume 1 - the formative years 1970–1987', by David Parker. International Journal of Public Administration, 33(4), pp. 207-209. (doi: 10.1080/01900690903387733)[Book Review]

2009

Alawattage, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2009) Institutionalisation of control and accounting for bonded labour in colonial plantations: a historical analysis. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 20(6), pp. 701-715. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2009.02.001)

Alawattage, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2009) Weapons of the weak: subalterns' emancipatory accounting in Ceylon tea. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 22(3), pp. 379-404. (doi: 10.1108/09513570910945660)

Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2009) Management accounting in less developed countries: what is known and needs knowing. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 22(3), pp. 469-514. (doi: 10.1108/09513570910945697)

2008

Alawattage, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2008) Appearance of accounting in a political hegemony. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19(3), pp. 293-339. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2006.08.006)

Alawattage, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2008) Changing regimes of governance in a less developed country. Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies, 8, pp. 273-310. (doi: 10.1016/S1479-3563(08)08010-9)

Thomas, K.J.D. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2008) Bounded emotionality in entrepreneurship: an alternative framework. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 14(4), pp. 242-258. (doi: 10.1108/13552550810887408)

2007

Alawattage, C., Hopper, T. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2007) Introduction to management accounting in less developed countries. Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, 3(3), pp. 183-191. (doi: 10.1108/18325910710820256)

Jayasinghe, K. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2007) Calculative practices in a total institution. Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, 4(3), pp. 183-202. (doi: 10.1108/11766090710826637)

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Alawattage, C. (2007) Management Accounting Change: Approaches and Perspectives. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415393317

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Gooneratne, T. and Jayakody, J.A.S.K. (2007) Interest lost: the rise and fall of a balanced scorecard project in Sri Lanka. Advances in Public Interest Accounting, 13, pp. 237-271. (doi: 10.1016/S1041-7060(07)13009-1)

2006

Javasinghe, K and Wickramasinghe, D ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2006) Can NGOs Deliver Accountability? Predictions, Realities and Difficulties. In: Bhargava, H and Kumar, D (eds.) NGOs: Roles and Accountability: Introduction. ICFAI (Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India) University, pp. 296-327.

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2006) Researching power in accounting. In: Hoqu, Z. (ed.) Methodological Issues in Accounting Research: Theories, Methods and Issues. Spiramus: London, pp. 339-356. ISBN 9781904905127

2005

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Hopper, T. (2005) A cultural political economy of management accounting controls: a case study of a textile mill in a traditional Sinhalese village. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 16(4), pp. 473-503. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2003.07.001)

2004

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Hopper, T. and Rathnasiri, C. (2004) Japanese cost management meets Sri Lankan politics: disappearance and reappearance of bureaucratic management controls in a privatised utility. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 17(1), pp. 85-120. (doi: 10.1108/09513570410525229)

1995

Hopper, T., Annisette, M., Dastoor, N., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (1995) Some Challenges and Alternatives to Positive Accounting Research. In: Jones, S, Romano, C and Ratnatunga, J (eds.) Accounting Theory: A Contemporary Review. Harcourt Brace, pp. 515-550. ISBN 0729509850

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Articles

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Adhikari, Pawan, Steccolini, Ileana and Jayasinghe, Kelum (2025) The recovery of public sector accounting as a site of possibility: publicness and localised-led development. Financial Accountability and Management, (Accepted for Publication)

Ang, Soon Yong and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2024) Cultivating public value and accountability beyond NPM: a non-western perspective. Financial Accountability and Management, (Accepted for 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)

Ahmed, Zahir, Hopper, Trevor and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2023) From minnow to mighty: a hegemonic analysis of social accountability in BRAC - the world's largest development NGO. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 92, 102503. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102503)

Ang, Soon Yong and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2023) Ethical disputes, coordinating acts and NGO accountability: evidence from an NGO river-care programme in Malaysia. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 92, 102416. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2022.102416)

Bracci, Enrico, Mouhcine, Tallaki, Rana, Tarek and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2022) Risk management and management accounting control systems in public sector organizations: a systematic literature review. Public Money and Management, 42(6), pp. 395-402. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2021.1963071)

Rana, Tarek, Bracci, Enrico and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2022) Management accounting and risk management—research and reflections. Public Money and Management, 42(6), pp. 361-364. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2022.2080917)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2022) Towards being critical in accounting research within LDCs. African Accounting and Finance Journal, 4(1), pp. 29-37.

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)

Joannides de Lautour, Vassili, Hoque, Zahirul and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2021) Operationalising ethnicity in accountability: Insights from an ethnic group within the Salvation Army. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(8), pp. 1883-1905. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-08-2013-1450)

Ahn, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0998-6270 and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2021) Pushing the limits of accountability: big-data analytics containing and controlling COVID-19 in South Korea. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(6), pp. 1320-1331. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-08-2020-4829)

Alam, Saiful, Ranasinghe, Seuwandhi B. and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2021) Another development challenge: gaining emancipation from a functional hegemony in accounting and management control research. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, 11(1), pp. 27-48. (doi: 10.1108/JAEE-02-2019-0039)

Ranasinghe, Seuwandhi B. and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2021) Unveiling a postcolonial neoliberalism: hybridised controls and emancipatory potentials for tea-plucking women in Sri Lanka. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(3), pp. 651-679. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-12-2018-3785)

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)

Joannides de Lautour, Vassili, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Berland, Nicolas (2020) From critical accounting to an account of critique: The case of cultural emancipators. Accounting Forum, 44(2), pp. 132-159. (doi: 10.1080/01559982.2019.1588452)

Yazdifar, Hassan, Askarany, Davood, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Nasseri, Ahmad and Alam, Ashraful (2019) The diffusion of management accounting innovation in dependent (subsidiary) organisations and MNCs. International Journal of Accounting, 54(1), 1950004. (doi: 10.1142/S1094406019500045)

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)

Rana, Tarek, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Bracci, Enrico (2019) New development: Integrating risk management in management control systems—lessons for public sector managers. Public Money and Management, 39(2), pp. 148-151. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2019.1580921)

Mohamad-Yusof, Nor-Zalina, Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Zaman, Mahbub (2018) Corporate governance, critical junctures and ethnic politics: Ownership and boards in Malaysia. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 55, pp. 33-52. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2017.12.006)

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)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2015) Getting management accounting off the ground: post-colonial neoliberalism in healthcare budgets. Accounting and Business Research, 45(3), pp. 323-355. (doi: 10.1080/00014788.2015.1009358)

Jayasinghe, K. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2011) Power over empowerment: encountering development accounting in a Sri Lankan fishing village. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 22(4), pp. 396-414. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2010.12.008)

Jazayeri, M., Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Gooneratne, T. (2011) Convergence versus divergence of performance measurement systems: lessons from spatial variations. Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, 8(3), pp. 292-314. (doi: 10.1108/11766091111162098)

Herath, S.K., Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Indrani, M.W. (2010) Improving efficiency and accountability: a case study on outsourcing strategies in higher education in Sri Lanka. International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting, 2(3), p. 275. (doi: 10.1504/IJMFA.2010.034119)

Herath, S.K., Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Indrani, M.W. (2010) A teaching case on implementing an activity-based costing system in a service firm: Lakhiru Insurance Company. International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting, 2(2), p. 177. (doi: 10.1504/IJMFA.2010.033290)

Alawattage, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2009) Institutionalisation of control and accounting for bonded labour in colonial plantations: a historical analysis. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 20(6), pp. 701-715. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2009.02.001)

Alawattage, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2009) Weapons of the weak: subalterns' emancipatory accounting in Ceylon tea. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 22(3), pp. 379-404. (doi: 10.1108/09513570910945660)

Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2009) Management accounting in less developed countries: what is known and needs knowing. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 22(3), pp. 469-514. (doi: 10.1108/09513570910945697)

Alawattage, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2008) Appearance of accounting in a political hegemony. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19(3), pp. 293-339. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2006.08.006)

Alawattage, C. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2008) Changing regimes of governance in a less developed country. Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies, 8, pp. 273-310. (doi: 10.1016/S1479-3563(08)08010-9)

Thomas, K.J.D. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2008) Bounded emotionality in entrepreneurship: an alternative framework. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 14(4), pp. 242-258. (doi: 10.1108/13552550810887408)

Alawattage, C., Hopper, T. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2007) Introduction to management accounting in less developed countries. Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, 3(3), pp. 183-191. (doi: 10.1108/18325910710820256)

Jayasinghe, K. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2007) Calculative practices in a total institution. Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, 4(3), pp. 183-202. (doi: 10.1108/11766090710826637)

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Gooneratne, T. and Jayakody, J.A.S.K. (2007) Interest lost: the rise and fall of a balanced scorecard project in Sri Lanka. Advances in Public Interest Accounting, 13, pp. 237-271. (doi: 10.1016/S1041-7060(07)13009-1)

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Hopper, T. (2005) A cultural political economy of management accounting controls: a case study of a textile mill in a traditional Sinhalese village. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 16(4), pp. 473-503. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2003.07.001)

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Hopper, T. and Rathnasiri, C. (2004) Japanese cost management meets Sri Lankan politics: disappearance and reappearance of bureaucratic management controls in a privatised utility. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 17(1), pp. 85-120. (doi: 10.1108/09513570410525229)

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)

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 and Alawattage, C. (2007) Management Accounting Change: Approaches and Perspectives. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415393317

Book Sections

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)

Ang, Soon Yong and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2021) Capturing traditions and preserving outcomes: evidence from Malaysian river-care programmes. In: Hoque, Z. (ed.) Public Sector Reform and Performance Management in Emerging Economies: Outcomes-Based Approaches in Practice. Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367435523

Alam, Saiful, Ranasinghe, Seuwandhi B. and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2019) Ethnographic significance in researching management accounting: Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. In: Weetman, P. and Tsalavoutas, I. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Accounting in Emerging Economies. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 235-246. ISBN 9780815356202 (doi: 10.4324/9781351128506-19)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2018) Power of accounting and power over accounting. In: Hoque, Zahirul (ed.) Methodological Issues in Accounting Research. Spiramus Press. ISBN 9781910151464

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, 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

Hopper, Trevor, Ashraf, Junaid, Uddin, Shahzad and Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2015) Social theorisation of accounting: challenges to positive research. In: Jones, Stewart (ed.) Routledge Companion to Financial Accounting Theory. Series: Routledge companions in business, management and accounting. Routledge: New York, NY, pp. 452-471. ISBN 9780415660280

Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2012) Introduction: Accounting and Development. In: Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. (eds.) Handbook of Accounting and Development. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9781848448162

Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2012) Privatization, market-based reform and management control. In: Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. (eds.) Handbook of Accounting and Development. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 206-223. ISBN 9781848448162

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2011) Ontological dependency on epistemology strategy: interpretive management accounting reseach revisited. In: Abdel-Kader, M. (ed.) Review of Management Accounting Research. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9780230252370

Javasinghe, K and Wickramasinghe, D ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2006) Can NGOs Deliver Accountability? Predictions, Realities and Difficulties. In: Bhargava, H and Kumar, D (eds.) NGOs: Roles and Accountability: Introduction. ICFAI (Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India) University, pp. 296-327.

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2006) Researching power in accounting. In: Hoqu, Z. (ed.) Methodological Issues in Accounting Research: Theories, Methods and Issues. Spiramus: London, pp. 339-356. ISBN 9781904905127

Hopper, T., Annisette, M., Dastoor, N., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (1995) Some Challenges and Alternatives to Positive Accounting Research. In: Jones, S, Romano, C and Ratnatunga, J (eds.) Accounting Theory: A Contemporary Review. Harcourt Brace, pp. 515-550. ISBN 0729509850

Book Reviews

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2025) The Resilience of New Public Management. Edited by Irvine Lapsley and Peter Miller, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 400. $145 (hardback). ISBN: 9780198883814. Regulation and Governance, (doi: 10.1111/rego.70031)[Book Review] (Early Online Publication)

Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (2010) Review of 'The official history of privatization, volume 1 - the formative years 1970–1987', by David Parker. International Journal of Public Administration, 33(4), pp. 207-209. (doi: 10.1080/01900690903387733)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Hopper, T., Tsamenyi, M., Uddin, S. and Wickramasinghe, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147 (Eds.) (2012) Handbook of Accounting and Development. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. ISBN 9781848448162

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Supervision

 

  • Muttaqin, Muhammad Faizal
    Evolution of governance in Indonesian SOEs: a governmentality perspective
  • Wandono, Rhoni Tanjung Marji
    Big Data Analysis and Accountability: A Case Study of Taxpayer Compliance Risk Management System in the Indonesian Tax Authority
  • Xu, Ying
    Governance and Accountability in China COVID-19 Crisis: Perspective from a Local Residents Committee
  • Zhang, Yuan
    The Green Finance Initiative in China: A Governmentally Perspective on its Accountability Practices

Teaching

  • Management accounting and controls
  • Management accounting in organisations and society
  • Financial Information Management 
  • Entrepreneurial Finance for SMEs

Professional activities & recognition

Editorial boards

  • 2016: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
  • 2014: Critical Perspectives on Accounting
  • 2013: Accounting and Business Research
  • 2011: Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change
  • 2010: Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies
  • 2011: Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management

Additional information

Among the others, the following are some of the projects Danture is engaged in:

  1. Working with the World Bank’s Sri Lankan office examining how their social auditing project generates mundane governance and accountability in relation to the participative development programme being institutionalised
  2. Working with a Sri Lankan local authority to examine how Sustainable Development Goals are being translated into 'Beyond Budgeting Practices'.
  3. Guest editing (with Dr Tarek Rana and Dr Enrico Bracci a special issue on “Risk management in the public sector” for Journal of Public Money and Management
  4. Co-editing a Palgrave Series of Accounting and Finance Praces (with Associate Professor Vassili Jonnides and Professor Aude Deville)
  5. Working with the Sri Lanka Institute of Chartered Accountants examining the effects of corporate governance initiatives in Sri Lanka (with Dr C Abeysinghe)