Darlene Himick

Associate Professor

L.L.B. (York University, Osgoode Hall Law School), Call to the Bar of Nova Scotia (Canadian Bar Association), M.B.A. (Dalhousie), CFA Charterholder (CFA Institute), Ph.D. (U of Calgary)

Location: DMS 6161
Telephone: 613-562-5800 x 2611

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Biography

Darlene Himick received a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Calgary and an MBA from Dalhousie University. Professor Himick also earned an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Her teaching interests include financial accounting, accounting theory, and financial statement analysis. A Charterholder with the CFA Institute, Ms. Himick served for several years as a pension investment consultant before she began her academic career. Among her many current roles, she is a Senior Research Fellow with the Shareholder Association for Research and Education, based in Vancouver, B.C.

Research Interests

Professor Himick regularly presents her research at academic conferences and industry forums. Her work has been published in Accounting, Organizations and Society, the European Accounting Review, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, the Journal of Business Ethics, and the Journal of Management Studies. Her research focuses on pension accounting, responsible investing by pension funds, and the use of experts during standard setting. She is also interested in accounting history and the accounting profession, specifically its interaction with the actuarial profession. Ms. Himick has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) to study the issues around the use of accounting information in the context of retirement plans in Canada and the United States and the emergence of the individual shareholder activist.

Research Areas

Accounting and Actuarial Expertise Accounting standard setting and the use of experts during standard setting Pension accounting Qualitative research Sociological Theories of Accounting Practice Tax-Assisted Savings and Retirement

Publications during the last 7 years

Papers in Refereed Journals

Himick, D. and Brivot, M. 2019. Carriers of ideas in accounting standard-setting and financialization: The role of epistemic communities. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 66: 29-44.
Himick, D. and Ruff, K. 2019. Counter accounts of profit: outrage to action through ‘just’ calculation. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.
Brivot, M., Baud, C. and Himick, D. 2019. Accounting Ethics and the Fragmentation of Value. Journal of Business Ethics.
Boubaker, S., Chourou, L., Himick, D. and Saadi, S. 2017. It's about Time! The Influence of Institutional Investment Horizon on Corporate Social Responsibility. Thunderbird International Business Review, 59(5): 571-594.
Himick, D., Brivot, M. and Martinez, D. 2017. Constructing, Contesting, and Overloading: A Study of Risk Management Framing. European Accounting Review, 26(4): 703-728.
Cooper, C., Graham, C. and Himick, D. 2016. Social impact bonds: the securitization of the homeless. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 55(2016): 63-82.
Himick, D. 2016. Actuarialism as biopolitical and disciplinary technique. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 54(2016): 22-44.
Himick, D., Brivot, M. and Henri, J.F. 2016. An ethical perspective on accounting standard setting: The case of Professional and lay-experts' contribution to GASB's Pension Project. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 36: 22-38.
Himick, D. and Audousset-Coulier, S. 2016. Responsible Investing of Pension Assets: Links between Framing and Practices for Evaluation. Journal of Business Ethics, 136(3): 539-556.
Crane, A., Graham, C. and Himick, D. 2015. Financializing Stakeholder Claims. Journal of Management Studies, 52(7): 878-906.
Himick, D. 2015. Human depreciation accounting and the emergence of industrial pensions: linking human assets to the firm. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 28(2): 242-262 .

Funded Research during the last 7 years

Funded Research during the last 7 years
From-To	Source	Title	*	**	Role	Amount
2018	SSHRC	Healthy Professional/Knowledge Workers	C	C	PI	$ 1,425,000
2018	SSHRC	The Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement	R	C	PI	$ 98,224
2018-2019	Telfer School of Management	Modern Slavery - a Review and Research Agenda	O	I	PI	$ 12,000
2016-2019	SSHRC	Individual Investors as Engaged Shareholders	R	C	PI	$ 43,000
2012-2015	Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC)	The use of accounting information: a case study in the field of retirement plans in Canada and the United States	R	G	PI	$ 34,100

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Role
PI = Principal Investigator | Co-I = Co-Investigator | Co-PI = Co-Principal Investigator