Walid Ben Amar
Full Professor
Ian Telfer Research Fellowship
Maîtrise (Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales), Maîtrise (UQAM), Ph.D. (HEC Montréal), CPA, CGA (CPA Ontario)
- Location
- DMS 7104
- Telephone
- 613-562-5800 x 4723
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Biography
Walid Ben-Amar is full professor and holder of an Ian Telfer Research Fellowship at the Telfer School of Management of the University of Ottawa. A chartered professional accountant (CPA) in Ontario, He holds a Master's degree in accounting from Université du Québec à Montréal and a Ph.D. in business administration from HEC Montréal. Professor Ben-Amar teaches financial accounting courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the Telfer School of Management. He was a recipient of a University of Ottawa’s excellence in education prize in 2019.
His areas of research include corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and corporate disclosure strategies. His current research funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) focus on climate risk reporting and governance. Professor Ben Amar has published his work in academic journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, European Accounting Review and British Journal of Management.
Publications during the last 7 years
Papers in Refereed Journals
- Ding, X., Chourou, L. and Ben Amar, W. 2024. Carbon Emissions and Audit Fees: Evidence from Emerging Markets. Emerging Markets Review, 60: 101139.
- Ayed, S., Ben Amar, W. and Arouri, M. 2024. Climate Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Dividends. Finance Research Letters, 60: 104948.
- Ben Amar, W., Castro-Herrera, D. and Martinez, I. 2024. Do Climate Risk Disclosures Matter to Financial Analysts? Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, (In Press).
- Ben Amar, W., Francoeur, C., Garcia-Meca, E. and Martinez-Ferrero, J. 2024. Do Gender-Diverse Boards Enhance the Linguistic Features of Corporate Financial Reporting? Accounting Horizons, 38(2): 57–81.
- Ben Amar, W., Comyns, B. and Martinez, I. 2024. Firm Commitments on Climate Change - Effects of Science-Based Targets on Financial Outcomes during the COVID-19 Crisis. Business Strategy and the Environment, (Accepted).
- Abdel-Nour, J., Aubert, N. and Ben Amar, W. 2023. Employee Stock Ownership and Voluntary Carbon Disclosure. Bankers, Markets & Investors, 172-173: 59-70.
- Ben Amar, W., Comyns, B. and Martinez, I. 2023. The COVID-19 Pandemic: Opportunity or Challenge for Climate Change Risk Disclosure? Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 36(2): 649-676.
- Maaloul, A., Zéghal, D., Ben Amar, W. and Mansour, S. 2023. The effect of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and disclosure on cost of debt: The mediating effect of corporate reputation. Corporate Reputation Review, 26(1): 1-18.
- Ben Amar, W., Chen, Q., Ding, S. and Quon, T.K.S. 2023. The Impact of Accounting Information and its Quality on Government Funding to Nonprofit Organizations. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 34(2): 349–377.
- Ben Amar, W., Gomes, M., Khursheed, H. and Marsat, S. 2022. Climate Change Exposure and Internal Carbon Pricing Adoption. Business Strategy and the Environment, 31(7): 2854-2870.
- Soliman, M. and Ben Amar, W. 2022. Corporate Social Responsibility Orientation and Textual Features of Financial Disclosures. International Review of Financial Analysis, 84: 102400.
- Ben Amar, W., Bujaki, M.L., McConomy, B.J. and McIlkenny, P. 2022. Disclosure Transparency and Impression Management: A Textual Analysis of Board Gender Diversity Disclosures in Canada. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 29(5): 1247-1265.
- Ben Amar, W., Bujaki, M.L., McConomy, B.J. and McIlkenny, P. 2021. Gendering Merit: How the Discourse of Merit in Diversity Disclosures Supports the Gendered Status Quo on Canadian Corporate Boards. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 75: 102170.
- Ben Amar, W., Francoeur, C., Marsat, S. and Wahid Sijamic, A. 2021. How Do Firms Achieve Corporate Social Performance? An Integrated Perspective. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 28(3): 1078-1090.
- Ben Amar, W., Ebondo Wa Mandzila, E. and McIlkenny, P. 2020. Corporate social responsibility and the readability of listed firms’ compensation discussion and analysis. Recherches en Sciences de Gestion-Management Sciences-Ciencias de Gestión, 138: 213-242.
- Brieger, S., Francoeur, C., Welzel, C. and Ben Amar, W. 2019. Empowering Women: The Role of Emancipative Forces in Board Gender Diversity. Journal of Business Ethics, 155(2): 495-511.
- Ben Amar, W., He, L., Li, T. and Magnan, M. 2019. The Corrosive Effect of Offshore Financial Centers on Multinational Firms’ Disclosure Strategy . European Accounting Review, 28(3): 483-512.
- Ben Amar, W. and Belgacem, I. 2018. Do Socially Responsible Firms Provide more Readable Disclosures in Annual Reports? Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 25(5): 1009-1018.
- André, P., Ben Amar, W. and Huang, Z. 2018. Entreprises familiales, richesse socio-affective et méthode de paiement des fusions et acquisitions. Revue Française de Gouvernance d’Entreprise, 19: 11-39.
- Labelle, R., Hafsi, T., Francoeur, C. and Ben Amar, W. 2018. Family Firms' Corporate Social Performance: A Calculated Quest for Socioemotional Wealth. Journal of Business Ethics, 148(3): 511-525.
- 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.
- Ben Amar, W., Chang, M. and McIlkenny, P. 2017. Board Gender Diversity and Corporate Response to Sustainability Initiatives: Evidence from the Carbon Disclosure Project. Journal of Business Ethics, 142(2): 369-383.
Chapters in Books
- Soliman, M. and Ben Amar, W. Corporate Governance and Narrative Disclosure Features: A Literature Review. In Marzouk, M. and Hussainey, K.. Corporate Narrative Reporting Beyond the Numbers. London, UK: Routledge, 2022, (In Press).
- Ben Amar, W., McIlkenny, P. and Mhedhbi, K. What Explains Voluntary Corporate Carbon Disclosures in Emerging Markets. In Boubaker, S., Cumming D. and Nguyen, H.. Handbook of Finance and Sustainability. London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.
Funded Research during the last 7 years
| From-To | Source | Title | * | ** | Role | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-2024 | SSHRC Insight Development Grant | Are climate risk disclosures in earnings conference calls relevant to analysts? | R | C | Co-I | $ 49,504 |
| 2021-2023 | Autorité des Normes Comptables, France | Intégration des enjeux climatiques dans les états financiers | R | O | Co-PI | $ 71,578 |
| 2020-2023 | SSHRC Insight Grant | The effect of formal and informal institutions on corporate innovation: The case of gender diversity, state ownership and political connection | R | C | Co-I | $ 65,884 |
| 2020-2022 | SSHRC - Insight Development Grants | Trouver réponse à un défi planétaire : gouvernance d'entreprise, motivations et pressions pour réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre | R | C | Co-I | $ 48,264 |
| 2020-2022 | Europlace Institute of Finance | Do Investors Care more or less about Climate Change in a Post-Pandemic World? | R | O | Co-I | $ 14,724 |
| 2020-2022 | CPA - Canada Accounting and Governance Research Centre | Climate-Related Disclosures, Risk Financial Materiality and Capital Market Outcomes | R | I | PI | $ 5,000 |
| 2020-2021 | Agence Nationale de la recherche (ANR), France | Covid-19 and Organizational Resilience: Does Corporate Adaptation to Climate Change Pay in Troubled Times? | R | C | Co-I | $ 70,016 |
| 2019 | Telfer School of Management | Climate Change Disclosures in Family Firms | R | I | PI | $ 4,000 |
| 2018-2020 | Autorité des marchés financiers du Québec | Analyse de la lisibilité des entreprises Canadiennes : état des lieux et enjeux | R | O | Co-PI | $ 88,420 |
| 2018-2020 | SSHRC - Insight Development Grants | Corporate Water Performance, Market Valuation and Cost of Equity Capital | R | C | Co-PI | $ 43,402 |
| 2018-2019 | CPA Ontario | CPA-Accounting and Governance Research Centre | R | O | PI | $ 48,000 |
| 2018-2019 | Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) | What Explains Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting and Assurance Decisions? | R | I | PI | $ 500 |
| 2017-2018 | University of Ottawa, Research Development Program (RDP) | Corporate Water-Related Risks: Disclosure, Performance and Market Valuation | R | I | Co-I | $ 14,000 |
| 2016-2017 | CPA/Laurier Centre for the Advancement of Accounting Research and Education | Gender Diversity Disclosures: Transparency or Management Obfuscation? | R | O | Co-I | $ 5,520 |
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
