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James Tuffour

James Tuffour

Dean, School of Business
Associate Professor
(403) 782-3381  x 4039

Office location: Northwest Hall
jamestuffour@burmanu.ca

Education

PhD Business Administration, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
MBA, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
BSc (Accounting), Oxford Brookes University, UK
HND (Accounting), Sunyani Technical University, Ghana

Areas of Expertise

Sustainability Accounting
Natural Resources Management
Financial Reporting Quality
Small Enterprises Development
Corporate Governance
Business History

Biography

Dr James Tuffour is the Dean of the School of Business at Burman University, Alberta, Canada.

James holds a PhD and an MBA from Anglia Ruskin University, and a BSc in Accounting from Oxford Brookes University. He is a chartered accountant by profession and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in the UK. Dr Tuffour is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK, and a member of several reputable academic bodies, including the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, the British Academy of Management, and the Academy of International Business.

James has over two decades of teaching and industry experience in Ghana, Canada, and the UK.
Prior to joining Burman University as an Associate Professor, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast. He has previously taught Financial Reporting, Sustainability Accounting, Auditing and Assurance, Taxation, and other business modules at both the postgraduate and undergraduate levels at the University of Cambridge, University of East London, Anglia Ruskin University, and the London School of Commerce.

Dr Tuffour has extensive industry experience. He spent about a decade of his career in industry with the Ghana Audit Service, the Internal Audit Agency, and a national roads construction firm in Ghana. He also held a Financial Accountant position in a private company in England for over five years. James is the Founding President of Growing Together Educational Foundation, a charity that supports teaching and learning of young people in rural Ghana.

Dr Tuffour’s research interests cover sustainability reporting, small business development, auditing and financial reporting quality, business history, and corporate governance. Some of his studies have been published in peer-reviewed journals, books, and online news portals. James has presented over a dozen research papers at international conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Dr James Tuffour has consulted on European Union-sponsored projects in England, Botswana, Ghana, Namibia, South Africa, and Mozambique.

Professional Affiliations

  • Fellow, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK
  • Fellow, the Higher Education Academy, UK
  • Member, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Canada
  • Member, British Academy of Management, UK
  • Member, Academy of International Business, USA
     

Current Research or Professional Activities

Selected Publications

  1. Tuffour, J., Appiah-Boateng, S., Arhin, E. Y., Acheampong, A., & Boakye-Yiadom, N. (2026). High stakes account for low grades? Examining the interplay of gambling severity, attitudes, behaviours, and intervention approaches among university students, Journal of Gambling Issues, 57(6), 102-128. https://doi.org10.4309/UOQY1733
  2. Tuffour, J., Arhin, E. Y., Amoako, K. O., Agyei, S. K., & Sarkodie-Tuffour, F. (2025). Higher education internationalisation: Evidence from a Ghanaian public university, Pan-African Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 7(1), 77-94.
  3. Tuffour, J., Acheampong, A., Mensah-Williams, E., & Hector Amonoo, J. (2025). Debt capital access procedures for small and medium-sized enterprises in an emerging economy: does financial knowledge matter? Cogent Business & Management, 12(1), 2508368.
  4. Tuffour, J., Patnaik, S., & Ayikoru, M. (2025). Accounting for informalization in Africa's extractive industry: Evidence from Ghana's small‐scale gold mining sector during the colonial period. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 1–16.
  5. Manu, V., Amoako, K. O., Amaning, N., Tuffour, J., Amoako, I. O., & Yankey, N. (2025). The effects of corporate social responsibilities on the financial performance of RCBs in Ghana: The moderating role of board quality, in The Emerald Handbook of African Studies, (ed.) Omeihi, K. O., & Harrison, C. Emerald Publishing Limited.
  6. Erdiaw-Kwasie, M. O., Tenakwah, E. S., Tenakwah, E. J., & Tuffour, J. (2024). Sustainable energy strategies among small and medium-scale enterprises: The mediating role of business associations. Journal of Cleaner Production, 470, 143237.
  7. Amoako, K. O., Dixon, K., Amoako, I. O., Marfo, E. O., Tuffour, J., & Lord, B. R. (2024). Stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainability performance of a gold mining subsidiary in Ghana. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, 20(3), 409-432.
  8. Tuffour, J., Patnaik, S., Ayikoru, M. & Amoako, K. O. (2024). Accounting for the informalisation of small-scale enterprises: Evidence from Ghana’s gold mining industry, in ‘Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa’. Edward Elgar Publication.
  9. Boahen, E., Ambe, E., Tuffour, J. & Shampa, R. (2023). Experiential learning and employability skills development at the tax and accountancy in ‘International handbook on clinical tax education’ (ed.), Lawton, A. University of London Press.
  10. Oduro K. A., Oduro I. A., Tuffour, J., & Amaning, N. (2023). Challenges of sustainability practices of a mining subsidiary operating in Ghana, in ‘Contextualizing African studies: Challenges and the way forward’(ed.) Omeihi, K. O., & Harrison, C. Emerald Publishing Limited.
  11. Oduro K. A., Oduro I. A., Tuffour, J., & Amaning, N. (2022). Contextualising sustainability reporting in host communities: An insight from a mining subsidiary in Ghana, in ‘The African context of Business and Society’ (137–164) (ed.) Agyapong, D. & Boohene, R. Emerald Publishing Limited.
  12. Vijay, P., Tuffour, J., Temouri, Y., Ashish, M., & Patnaik, S. (2021). The quest for CSR: Mapping responsible and irresponsible practices in an intra-organizational context in Ghana’s gold mining industry, Journal of Business Research, 135, 268-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.06.024
  13. Oduro K. A., Oduro I. A., and Tuffour, J., & Marfo, E. O. (2021). Formal and informal sustainability reporting: An insight from a mining company’s subsidiary in Ghana, Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFRA-12-2020-0368
  14. Patnaik, S., Temouri, Y., Tuffour, J., Tarba, S., & Singh, S. K. (2018). Corporate social responsibility and multinational enterprise identity: Insights from a mining company's attempt to localise in Ghana, Social Identities, 24(5), 604–623. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2017.1386369

Conference Presentations

  1. Tuffour, J., Acheampong, A., Mensah-Williams, E., & Amonoo, J. H. Debt capital access procedures for small and medium-sized enterprises in an emerging economy: Does financial knowledge matter? Annual Conference – Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, University of Waterloo, 2025, Canada.
  2. Tuffour, J., Acheampong, A., &Agyemang F. K. Enhancing entrepreneurial self-efficacy development through teaching quality, learning methods, and university support systems: Evidence from Ghanaian universities. Annual Conference – Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, University of Waterloo, Canada.
  3. Manu, V., Amoako, K. O., Amaning, N., and Tuffour, J., Amoako, I. O., & Yankey, N., 2024. Effects of corporate social responsibilities on the financial performance of rural and community banks in Ghana: The moderating role of board quality. Applied Research Conference of Technical Universities in Ghana, 2024, Sunyani Technical University, Ghana.
  4. Tuffour, J., Patnaik, S., & Ayikoru, M. (2024). Accounting for informalization in Africa's extractive industry: Evidence from Ghana's small‐scale gold mining sector during the colonial period. Annual Conference – Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Université de Sherbrooke, Montréal, Canada [Best Paper Award – Business History Division].
  5. Temouri, Y., Vijay, P., Patnaik, S., Ashish, M. and Tuffour, J. The quest for ethics amidst institutional change: Mapping responsible and irresponsible practices within Ghana’s mining industry. British Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2020, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
  6. Oduro K. A., Oduro I. A., and Tuffour, J. Contextualising sustainability reporting in host communities: An insight from a mining subsidiary in Ghana. British Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2020, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
  7. Tuffour, J. Institutional changes in the Ghana mining industry: The struggle for power between chiefdom and colonial administration. Business and Law Research Conference, 2019, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  8. Tuffour, J. The quest for CSR amidst institutional changes: Mapping the responsible and irresponsible practices within Ghana’s gold mining industry. Academy of International Business Annual Conference, 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  9. Tuffour, J. The quest for ethics amidst institutional change: The case of Ghana’s mining industry. Global Strategy and Emerging Markets Conference, 2019, University of Texas at Dallas, United States.
  10. Tuffour, J. The quest for ethics amidst institutional change: The case of Ghana’s mining industry. Extractive for Development Workshop, University of Surrey, 2018, Surrey, United Kingdom.
  11. Tuffour, J. The quest for CSR amidst institutional changes: Mapping the ethical practices within Ghana’s gold mining industry. Ghanaian Scholars’ Research Conference, 2018, Coventry, United Kingdom.
  12. Tuffour, J., and Patnaik, S. Corporate social responsibility in a mining MNE in Ghana – a case of corporate reputation versus sustainable development. Academy of International Business Annual Conference, 2017, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  13. Tuffour, J. Adapting to local condition: Emerging evidence of a multinational enterprise’s attempt to localise corporate social responsibility strategy. British Academy of Management - Doctoral Symposium, 2016, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom.

Online Publications

  1. The cedi dances: One-step forward, multiples backward, The High Street Journal, May 2025 (Available at: https://thehighstreetjournal.com/the-cedi-dances-one-step-forward-multiples-backward/).
  2. Sustaining the Ghanaian economy: Beyond the Friday wear, The High Street Journal, October 2025 (Available at: https://thehighstreetjournal.com/sustaining-the-ghanaian-economy-beyond-the-friday-wear/).
     
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