New Full Professors Schulich faculty members are leading scholars from the world’s best universities. Their award-winning research is recognized globally. They are at the forefront of their fields and are increasingly being acknowledged for their long-term impacts and contributions to management education and research. Six members of Schulich’s faculty have recently been advanced in position from Associate Professor to Professor.
Marcia Annisette
M AR C I A A N N ISE TTE Professor of Accounting
Research Keywords • Accounting — Globalization • Accounting — History • Accounting — Immigration • Accounting Institutions
64 Schulich School of Business
Marcia Annisette is Professor of Accounting. Her major research interest is in the social organization of the accountancy profession, and her research seeks to understand the strategies deployed by professional accounting bodies to differentiate themselves and achieve monopoly or elite status in the market for expert accounting labour. Her research has an international breadth and includes studies of the profession in Ireland, England, Trinidad and Tobago and Canada. Her research is also historically and sociological informed highlighting how national bases of social exclusion such as religion, social class, race, nationality or immigration status, interact with professional structures to achieve professional closure. Marcia’s work has been published in top academic journals, including Accounting Organizations and Society; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; and Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Several of her works are considered accounting classics and have contributed to the establishment of new streams of research within the interdisciplinary accounting paradigm. Marcia has received several awards for her scholarly work, including: the 1999 the Basel Yamey Prize for the best article for the year published in Accounting History Review; the 2008 Outstanding Paper Award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence for her paper published in Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management and the 2011 and 2016 Highly Commended Award in the Mary Parker Follett Manuscript Award for articles published in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. She is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of Accounting Organizations and Society, an FT 50 journal; was Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Perspectives in Accounting (2009 – 2018) and currently sits on the editorial boards of 9 other academic accounting journals. She has previously held academic appointments at universities in England, the USA, Spain, and Trinidad and Tobago. Currently, Marcia is the School’s Associate Dean Academic, prior to which she was the Associate Dean Students (2013 – 2020). She is the founding director of the Master of Accounting, was its program director from 2011 – 2020 and oversaw CPA Ontario’s initial accreditation of the MAcc and subsequent re-accreditations of the program.
