Yves Gendron

Université Laval

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Faculte des sciences de l'administration

2325 rue de la Terrasse, Local 2636

Quebec City, Quebec G1V 0A6

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What Went Wrong? The Downfall of Arthur Andersen and the Construction of Controllability Boundaries Surrounding Financial Auditing

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What Went Wrong? The Downfall of Arthur Andersen and the Construction of Controllability Boundaries Surrounding Financial Auditing

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Jul 2009
Yves Gendron and Laura F. Spira
Université Laval and Oxford Brookes University
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Arthur Andersen, Controllability boundaries, Financial auditing, Organizational controls, Regulation, Sensemaking

What Went Wrong? The Downfall of Arthur Andersen and the Construction of Controllability Boundaries Surrounding Financial Auditing

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 13 Jul 2009
Yves Gendron and Laura F. Spira
Université Laval and Oxford Brookes University

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Arthur Andersen, Controllability boundaries, Financial auditing, Organizational controls, Regulation

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Strengthening the Financial Reporting System: Can Audit Committees Deliver?

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 23 Jul 2009
Jean Bédard and Yves Gendron
Université Laval - École de comptabilité and Université Laval
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Audit committee, Corporate governance, Effectiveness, Regulation, Review of literature

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Interview-Based Research in Accounting 2000-2014: A Review

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2016
Narisa Tianjing Dai, Clinton Free and Yves Gendron
University of International Business and Economics - Business School, University of Sydney Business School and Université Laval
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Interviewing; quotations; Methods sections; Saturation; Accounting research

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Deploying Narrative Economics to Understand Financial Market Dynamics: An Analysis of Activist Short Sellers’ Rhetoric

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Deploying Narrative Economics to Understand Financial Market Dynamics: An Analysis of Activist Short Sellers’ Rhetoric

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming, HEC Paris Research Paper No. ACC-2020-1401
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 16 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2020
Luc Paugam, Hervé Stolowy and Yves Gendron
HEC Paris, Accounting and Management Control Department, HEC Paris - Accounting and Management Control Department and Université Laval
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activist short sellers, persuasion, rhetorical strategies, narrative economics, credibility

Deploying Narrative Economics to Understand Financial Market Dynamics: An Analysis of Activist Short Sellers’ Rhetoric

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 08 Feb 2021
Luc Paugam, Hervé Stolowy and Yves Gendron
HEC Paris, Accounting and Management Control Department, HEC Paris - Accounting and Management Control Department and Université Laval

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activist short sellers, persuasion, rhetorical strategies, narrative economics, credibility

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Shaping collective action in financial markets through the development of popular expertise: An analysis of Due Diligence posts on WallStreetBets

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 03 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2024
Yves Gendron, Alexandre Madelaine, Luc Paugam and Hervé Stolowy
Université Laval, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, HEC Paris, Accounting and Management Control Department and HEC Paris - Accounting and Management Control Department
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Collective action; Digital platforms; Fairness; Financial markets; Information intermediaries; Investment narratives; Popular expertise; Social movement; WallStreetBets

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On the Elusive Nature of Critical (Accounting) Research

Critical Perspectives on Accouting, Vol. 50, 2018
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Feb 2018
Yves Gendron
Université Laval
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critical accounting research, critical paradigm, epistemology, marginalization, research boundaries

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Building the Legitimacy of Whistleblowers: A Multi-Case Discourse Analysis

Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming, HEC Paris Research Paper No. ACC-2018-1277
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 13 May 2018 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2018
Hervé Stolowy, Yves Gendron, Jodie Moll and Luc Paugam
HEC Paris - Accounting and Management Control Department, Université Laval, The University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and HEC Paris, Accounting and Management Control Department
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Whistleblowing, Fraud Detection, Role Definition, Discourse Analysis, Legitimacy, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

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Constituting the Academic Performer: The Spectre of Superficiality and Stagnation in Academia

European Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 01 Aug 2007
Yves Gendron
Université Laval
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Accounting academia, Intellectual conformity, Representations of identity, Journal rankings, Performance measurement practices, Superficiality

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Professional Insecurity, Accountant Identity and the Erosion of Accountancy's Jurisdictional Boundaries

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 May 2004
Yves Gendron and Roy Suddaby
Université Laval and Peter B Gustavson School of Business
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Accounting profession, Auditor independence, Professional identity, Professional insecurity, Systems of expertise

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Competing For Narrative Authority In Capital Markets: Activist Short Sellers Vs. Financial Analysts

Accounting, Organizations and Society, Forthcoming, HEC Paris Research Paper No ACC-2022-1449
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 10 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2022
Hervé Stolowy, Luc Paugam and Yves Gendron
HEC Paris - Accounting and Management Control Department, HEC Paris, Accounting and Management Control Department and Université Laval
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Activist short sellers, expertise, financial analysts, framing, narrative authority

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Professional-Organizational Commitment: A Study of Canadian Professional Accountants

Australian Accounting Review, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 231-248, 2010
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2013
Yves Gendron, Roy Suddaby and Sandy Qu
Université Laval, Peter B Gustavson School of Business and York University - Schulich School of Business
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accounting profession, culture, occupational stress, organizational commitment, professional commitment, workplace diversification

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Professionalization in Action: Accountants' Attempt at Building a Network of Support for the Webstrust E-Commerce Seal of Assurance

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 Apr 2002
Yves Gendron and Michael Barrett
Université Laval and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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WebTrust, E-commerce, Actor-network theory, Professionalization

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Professionalization in Action: Accountants' Attempt at Building a Network of Support for the Webtrust Seal of Assurance

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 May 2004
Yves Gendron and Michael Barrett
Université Laval and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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E-commerce, professionalization, new assurance services, expertise claims

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Making Sense of Risk Management as a (Dis)comfort-Inducing Practice

Gendron, Y., Samsonova-Taddei, A, and Guénin, H., Making sense of risk management as a (dis)comfort-inducing practice. Behavioral Research in Accounting, (Forthcoming).
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Oct 2020
Yves Gendron, Anna Samsonova-Taddei and Henri Guénin
Université Laval, The University of Manchester and Université Laval - Faculté d'Administration
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risk management, boards of directors, consultants, corporate governance, comfort

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Blurred Roles and Elusive Boundaries: On Contemporary Forms of Oversight Surrounding Professional Work

Mouna Hazgui, Yves Gendron (2015) Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 28 Iss: 8, pp.1234-1262
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2024
Mouna Hazgui and Yves Gendron
HEC Montreal - Department of Accounting Studies and Université Laval
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Professional associations, Accounting and auditing regulation, Boundary work, Independent oversight, Professional regulation, Regulatory space

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The Construction of Risk Management Credibility within Corporate Boardrooms

Gendron, Y., Brivot, M., and Guénin-Paracini, H. The construction of risk management credibility within corporate boardrooms. European Accounting Review. Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 Jun 2015
Yves Gendron, Marion Brivot and Henri Guénin
Université Laval, Université Laval and Université Laval - Faculté d'Administration
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construction of legitimacy, purity boundaries, risk management, sense-making

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Seeing, Showing Off and Being Seen: On the Ramifications of Panoptical Surveillance in Contemporary Society

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Jan 2010
Marion Brivot and Yves Gendron
Université Laval and Université Laval
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Collegial control, Panopticon, Professional Service Organizations, Regulation

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Beyond Conventional Boundaries: Corporate Governance as Inspiration for Critical Accounting Research

Critical Perspectives on Accouting, Vol. 55, 2018
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Sep 2018
Yves Gendron
Université Laval
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audit committees and compensation committees, board of directors, box-breaking research, corporate governance, critical accounting research, marginalization

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Breaking Incommensurability Boundaries? On the Production and Publication of Inter-Paradigmatic Research

Forthcoming, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, HEC Paris Research Paper No. ACC-2023-1474
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2024
Yves Gendron, Luc Paugam and Hervé Stolowy
Université Laval, HEC Paris, Accounting and Management Control Department and HEC Paris - Accounting and Management Control Department
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epistemic mediation; incommensurability thesis; inter-paradigmatic research; mediation strategies; paradigms

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“Fly alone, die alone”? The clan and the production of tax expertise

British Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 04 Apr 2024
Maryse Mayer and Yves Gendron
Université Laval - School of Accounting and Université Laval

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tax planning work; professional service firms; clan-based knowledge production processes, production of comfort, peer consultation, informal social norm.

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From Emotionality to the Cultivation of Employability: An Ethnography of Change in Social Work Expertise Following the Spread of Quantification in a Social Enterprise

Forthcoming in Management Accounting Research
Posted: 26 Jun 2018
Thierry Amslem and Yves Gendron
IE University - IE Business School and Université Laval

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change in expertise; ethnography; legitimization; quantification; social enterprise; social work

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The Construction of Auditing Expertise in Measuring Government Performance

Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 32, No. 1/2, 2007, University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-142
Posted: 26 May 2013 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2013
Yves Gendron, David J. Cooper and Barbara Townley
Université Laval, University of Alberta - Department of Accounting, Operations & Information Systems and University of Edinburgh - Business School

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In the Name of Accountability - State Auditing, Independence and New Public Management

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2001 , University of Alberta School of Business Research Paper No. 2013-138
Posted: 26 May 2013 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2013
Yves Gendron, David J. Cooper and Barbara Townley
Université Laval, University of Alberta - Department of Accounting, Operations & Information Systems and University of Alberta

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Accountability, Auditing, Canada, Financial management, Local government

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IFRS: On the Docility of Sophisticated Users in Preserving the Ideal of Comparability

European Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 12 Jan 2010
Sylvain Durocher and Yves Gendron
University of Ottawa - Telfer School of Management and Université Laval

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Boundaries of purity, Docility, IFRS, Myth production, Sophisticated users of financial statements

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On Interdisciplinary Movements: The Development of a Network of Support Around Foucaultian Perspectives in Accounting Research

European Accounting Review, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 525-569, 2005
Posted: 26 Sep 2005
Yves Gendron and Charles Richard Baker
Université Laval and Adelphi University - School of Business

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Epistemological uncertainty, Interdisciplinary movements, Michel Foucault, Networks of support, Sociology of translation, Travel of ideas

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