David Sharp, Western University

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Associate Professor Business London, Ontario dsharp@ivey.uwo.ca Office: (519) 661-3945

Bio/Research

David J. Sharp is an Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting and Control at Richard Ivey School of Business. Before joining the Ivey Business School, Sharp taught at Boston College. He worked for an electrical engineering company and in sales research at a business systems company in his nat...

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Bio/Research

David J. Sharp is an Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting and Control at Richard Ivey School of Business. Before joining the Ivey Business School, Sharp taught at Boston College. He worked for an electrical engineering company and in sales research at a business systems company in his native England prior to teaching business studies for five years in the Middle East. He studied Engineering Science and Economics at Oxford University, and has a Masters degree in Management from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He earned his Ph.D in International Management at the MIT Sloan School in 1987.

Sharp's research interests centre around international management accounting and management decision-making issues. Presently, he is interested in cross-cultural differences in risky decision-making, international business ethics, and the role of control systems in promoting moral behaviour in organizations.

He teaches Managerial Accounting and Control and International Accounting in the MBA Program and Executive MBA programs. He also teaches in the Strategic Marketing Management Program, and in the Modular M. Eng program in the Faculty of Engineering.

His publications include scholarly articles in the areas of international financial management, cross-cultural behavior, and international business ethics. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation and The Journal of International Accounting Research, and associate editor of Advances in International Accounting. He is active in the American Accounting Association, and served as president of the International Accounting Section in 2001-2.



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