His research specialises in the operation of management accounting systems in a range of innovative contexts, including healthcare. His work focuses on the effect of accounting performance measures and devices on employee incentives and their consequent organisational outcomes. Professor Sivabalan’s work has been published in leading academic journals globally and he has lectured in the postgraduate programmes of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Said School of Business in the University of Oxford. Professor Sivabalan currently leads the Financial and Performance Transformation Group in Healthcare, a collaboration between the UTS Business School and NSW Health.