Walid Ben Amar

Publications during the last 7 years

Papers in Refereed Journals

• Ben Amar, W., Kong, Z. and Martinez, I. 2025. How Does Corporate Social Responsibility Shield Firms from the Adverse Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic? the Role of Financial Flexibility. Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, (In Press).
• 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.

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

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