Yves Gendron

Gendron began his university studies in 1982 at Université du Québec where he obtained, in 1985, his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a specialization in accounting.^[1] He became a CA in 1987.^[1] Post-certification, he spent most of 1992 completing propaedeutic courses at Laval University in order to meet the requirements of admission to the PhD program. He completed his PhD in Science Administration at Laval University from 1993 to 1997.^[1] His thesis was dedicated to the decision of accepting new clients in audit firms as a result of a compromise between logics of action. Although his thesis was mainly audit-focused, it also addressed professional concerns in relation to the application of accounting standards. Gendron then completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Alberta in 1998.^[1]

Prior to entering academia, Gendron worked as an auditor for Samson Bélair and Deloitte & Touche in Rimouski. Following his PhD, he joined the faculty of the University of Alberta, serving there from 1998 to 2006. Gendron then moved to Laval University, becoming full professor in 2008.^[1][2]

Gendron became co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed accounting journal Critical Perspectives on Accounting in January 2014, and is an editor and editorial board member of several other accounting journals.^[1][3]

Gendron does qualitative research that examines the daily lives of auditors, focusing on how they make decisions or how they handle stress. His work also looks at the legitimization processes that surround public accountants’ claims to expertise, particularly in emerging fields of practice such as performance measurement, online auditing, and consulting.^[4]

Gendron has also studied:

• Corporate governance, focusing on the role of audit committees and compensation committees
• The relationship between research and practice
• The emergence of interpretive accounting research
• Performativity pressures in academia^[4]

These articles have all been cited over 100 times, according to Google Scholar:

• Malsch, B., & Gendron, Y. (2013). Re‐theorizing change: Institutional experimentation and the struggle for domination in the field of public accounting. Journal of Management Studies, 50(5), 870-899.
• Bédard, J., & Gendron, Y. (2010). Strengthening the financial reporting system: Can audit committees deliver? International Journal of Auditing, 14(2), 174-210.
• Suddaby, R., Gendron, Y., & Lam, H. (2009). The organizational context of professionalism in accounting. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34(3-4), 409-427.
• Gendron, Y. (2008). Constituting the academic performer: the spectre of superficiality and stagnation in academia. European Accounting Review, 17(1), 97-127.
• Gendron, Y., Cooper, D. J., & Townley, B. (2007). The construction of auditing expertise in measuring government performance. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 32(1-2), 101-129.
• Gendron, Y., & Bédard, J. (2006). On the constitution of audit committee effectiveness. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 31(3), 211-239.
• Gendron, Y., Suddaby, R., & Lam, H. (2006). An examination of the ethical commitment of professional accountants to auditor independence. Journal of Business Ethics, 64(2), 169-193.
• Gendron, Y., Bedard, J., & Gosselin, M. (2004). Getting inside the black box: A field study of practices in “effective” audit committees. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 23(1), 153-171.
• Gendron, Y., Cooper, D. J., & Townley, B. (2001). In the name of accountability: State auditing, independence and new public management. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 14(3), 278-310.