Mohamed Chelli
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- DMS 7159
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- 613-562-5800 x 4766
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Biography
Professor Mohamed Chelli holds a Master of Research degree in accounting from the Université Paris-Dauphine (France). He also holds a PhD in Business Administration (accounting) from the Université Laval (Québec, Canada) and the Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris, France) as part of a joint degree program. His doctoral thesis is on the legitimization of corporate socio-environmental performance indicators and analyzes how the measures adopted by these organizations impose a sort of disciplinary authority on both the organizations being studied and the stakeholders.
Professor Chelli's teaching areas include Financial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, Managerial Accounting and Qualitative Methods in Accounting Research.
Professor Chelli has presented his research at several conferences such as: APIRA (Auckland, 2019), AFC (Montréal 2013 et Toulouse 2015) et AAC (Québec 2012, Montréal 2018), CSEAR (Toulouse 2017, Toronto 2018), CAAA (Ottawa, 2019). His research relates primarily, but not exclusively, to environmental disclosure, water disclosure and performance, human rights discourse, corporate socio-environmental performance indicators and sustainability ratings / rankings / certifications. Professor Chelli has published his research in such referred journals as the Journal of Business Ethics (JBE), the Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ), Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE) and Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit (CCA).
Publications during the last 7 years
Papers in Refereed Journals
- Chelli, M., Durocher, S. and Fortin, A. 2019. Substantive and Symbolic Strategies Sustaining the Environmentally Friendly Ideology: A Media-sensitive Analysis of the Discourse of a Leading French Utility . Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 32(4): 1013-1042.
- Ben Amar, W. and Chelli, M. 2018. What drives voluntary corporate water disclosures? The effect of country‐ level institutions. Business Strategy and the Environment, 27(8): 1609-1622.
- Chelli, M., Durocher, S. and Fortin, A. 2018. Normativity in environmental reporting: A comparison of three regimes. Journal of Business Ethics, 149(2): 285-311.
- Chelli, M. and Gendron, Y. 2015. L’expertise en évaluation socio-environnementale des entreprises : légitimation et mises à l’épreuve. Comptabilité Contrôle Audit, 21(2): 63-96.
- Chelli, M., Durocher, S. and Richard, J. 2014. France's New Economic Regulations: Insights from Institutional Legitimacy. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 27(2): 283-316.
- Chelli, M. and Gendron, Y. 2013. Sustainability ratings and the disciplinary power of the ideology of numbers. Journal of Business Ethics, 112(2): 187-203.
Funded Research during the last 7 years
| From-To | Source | Title | * | ** | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-2020 | SSHRC | Corporate Water Performance, Market Valuation and Cost of Equity Capital | R | C | PI | $ 43,402 |
| 2018-2019 | Telfer School of Management | Research Fund Start-Up | R | I | PI | $ 10,000 |
| 2018 | University of Ottawa, Office of the Vice-President, Research | Visiting Researcher Program – Professor Ataur Belal (Sheffield University, UK) | R | O | PI | $ 5,000 |
| 2017 | University of Ottawa & Telfer School of Management | Corporate Water-related Risks: Disclosure, Performance and Market Valuation | R | I | PI | $ 14,000 |
| 2016-2017 | Telfer School of Management | Research Fund Start-Up | R | I | PI | $ 10,000 |
| 2015-2016 | Federal University, Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, France | Environmental communication: Comparison between France and Canada | R | O | PI | $ 21,517 |
LEGEND:
*Purpose
C: Contract (R and D) | E: Equipment Grant | R: Research Grant | S: Support Award | P: Pedagogical Grant | O: Other, U: Unknown
**Type
C: Granting Councils | G: Government | F: Foundations | I: UO Internal Funding | O: Other | U: Unknown
Role
PI = Principal Investigator | Co-I = Co-Investigator | Co-PI = Co-Principal Investigator
