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Biography

Dr. Seleshi Sisaye is a Professor of Accounting at the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business. He teaches Managerial Accounting and Cost Accounting.

Dr. Sisaye has written several scholarly books and publications, which have appeared in refereed journals in accounting, international development, and management. He has presented his work at national and international conferences and is published in proceedings.

His research interests include sustainability development and reporting, accounting innovations, and management control systems.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
  • Ph.D., Development Sociology, Cornell University
  • M.B.A, University of Pittsburgh
  • M.L.S., State University of New York at Albany
  • M.A., Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • B.A., Public Administration, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (formerly Haile Sellassie I University)

School

Palumbo-Donahue School of Business
  • Wojeski Summer Research Grant, Accounting Program, 2021

Articles in Journals

Sisaye, S. (2023). An Ecological Approach to Sustainability Development: Applications of Ecological Anthropology and Organizational Ecology-Sociology to Accounting Education. Journal of Accounting and Finance, 23(5), 45-57.

Sisaye, S. (2022). The Sustainability Framework in Anthropology: Applications to Accounting Ethics. Journal of Accounting and Finance, 22(3), 113-127.

Sisaye, S. (2022). The Organizational Ecological Resource Framework of Sustainability Reporting: Implications for Corporate Social Reporting (CSR). Journal of Business and Socio-economic Development, 2(2), 99-116.

Sisaye, S. (2021). The Influence of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) on the Development of Voluntary Sustainability Accounting Reporting Rules. Journal of Business and Socio-economic Development, 1(1), 5-23.

Sisaye, S. & Turcsanyi, J. (2013). Corporate social responsibility and its link to financial performance: Application to Johnson & Johnson, a pharmaceutical company. World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 10 (1), 4-18.

Sisaye, S. (2013). The Development of Sustainable Practices in Complex Organizations: Implications and Potentials for Integration into the Accounting Curriculum. World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 9 (4), 223-245.

Sisaye, S., Christofi, A., & Christofi, P. (2012). Corporate Sustainability: Historical Development and Reporting Practices. Management Research Review, 35 (2), 157-172.

Sisaye, S. (2012). An Ecological Analysis of Four Competing Approaches to Sustainability Development: Integration from the Industrial Ecology and Ecological Anthropology Literature. World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 8 (1), 18-35.

Sisaye, S. (2011). Ecological Systems Approaches to Sustainability and Organizational Development: Emerging Trends in Environmental and Social Accounting Reporting Systems. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 32 (4), 379-396.

Sisaye, S. & Birnberg, J. G. (2010). Extent and Scope Dimensions of Diffusion and Adoption of Process Innovations in Management Accounting systems. International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, 18 (2), 118-139.

Sisaye, S. & Birnberg, J. G. (2010). Organizational Development and Transformational Learning Approaches in Process Innovations: A Review of the Implications to the Management Accounting Literature. Review of Accounting and Finance, 9 (4), 337-362.

Sisaye, S., Christofi, P., & Bodnar, G. (2008). The Integration of Total Quality Management into Sustainability. Internal Auditing, 23 (1), 33-39.

Sisaye, S., Christofi, P., & Bodnar, G. (2007). Micro-Socio-Sustainable TQM. Internal Auditing, 22 (1), 35-40.

Sisaye, S. (2005). Management Control Systems and Organizational Development: New Directions for Managing Work Teams. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 26 (1), 51-61.

Sisaye, S. (2005). Teams and Management Control Systems: A Synthesis of Three Organizational Development Approaches. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 26 (3), 172-185.

Sisaye, S., Bodnar, G., & Christofi, P. (2005). TQM and Sustainability: Insights from Environmental Resources Management. Internal Auditing, 20 (4), 27-32.

Sisaye, S., Bodnar, G., & Christofi, P. (2004). Total Quality Management and Sustainability Reporting: Lessons from Social Soundness Analysis. Internal Auditing, 19 (5), 32-39.

Sisaye, S. (2003). Process Innovation and Adaptive Institutional Change Strategies in Management Control Systems: Activity Based Costing as Administrative Innovation. Advances in Management Accounting, 11, 251-285.

Books, Monographs, Compilations, Manuals

Sisaye, S. (2017). Ecology, Sustainable Development and Accounting, Paperback Edition. England, Great Britain: Routledge.

Sisaye, S. (2016). Ecology, Sustainable Development and Accounting. Milton Park, Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Sisaye, S. (2012). An Organizational Learning Approach to Process Innovations: The Extent and Scope Dimensions of Adoption and Diffusion in Management Accounting Systems. Wagne Lane, Bngley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Sisaye, S. (2006). The Ecology of Management Accounting and Control Systems: Implications for Managing Teams and Work Groups in Complex Organizations. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, An Imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Sisaye, S. (2001). Organizational Change and Development in Management Control Systems: Process Innovation for Internal Auditing and Management Accounting. In M. Epstein. Amsterdam, Netherlands: JAI-An Imprint of Elsevier Science.

Chapters

Sisaye, S. (2015). The Functional-Institutional and Consequential-Conflictual Sociological Approaches to Accounting Ethics Education: Integration from Sustainability and Ecological Resources Management Literature. In Emerald Group Publishing Limited, New Perspectives in Accounting Ethics, 1, 1-36. Great Britain, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Sisaye, S. & Birnberg, J. (2014). Sociological Approaches to Organizational Learning: Applications to Process Innovations in Management Accounting Systems. Advances in Management Accounting. Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Sisaye, S. (2012). An Ecological Approach for the Integration of Sustainability into the Accounting Education and Professional Practice. In. J.Y. Lee & M. Epstein, Advances in Management Accounting, 3, 47-73.

Sisaye, S. (2004). Organizational Adaptation Change Approaches on the Development and Effectiveness of Environmental Management Accounting and Reporting Systems. In K. E. Karim & R.W. Rutledge, Environmental Disclosure Practices and Financial Performance (pp. 75-101). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.