Gregory Saxton

Gregory D. Saxton is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Schulich School of Business. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Communication at the University at Buffalo, SUNY and Associate Professor of Public Administration at SUNY, College at Brockport, and has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Singapore Institute of Management. He has received PhDs in Political Science from Claremont Graduate University (2000) and in Accounting from York University (2016). He also received an M.A. in Public Policy from Claremont Graduate University, an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Victoria. He has worked for the California state government and as a consultant for nonprofit organizations.

Greg’s research uses Big Data and data analytic techniques to analyze nonprofit organizations, corporate social responsibility, and the capital markets, and has appeared in the Financial Times 50 journals Accounting, Organizations, and Society and Journal of Business Ethics as well as numerous ABDC A*/A journals, including Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Public Administration Review, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Communication, Public Relations Review, British Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Voluntaristics Review and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Area of Expertise

• Accounting

Research Interests

• Big Data and Data Analytics
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Social Media
• Voluntary Disclosure

Honours

2021 Best Book Award, Academy of Management - Public and Nonprofit Division

2013 Best Paper Award, for best paper presented at the 2013 conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, November 21-23, 2013, Hartford, CT.

2013 Best Paper Award, Public Relations Division, annual meeting of the International Communication Association, June 17-21, London, UK.

2012 Top Research Paper Award, Public Relations Division, 98th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, November 12-15, Orlando, FL.

2002 ARPA Best Article Award, for best manuscript published in the American Review of Public Administration