Publications Database

Welcome to the new Schulich Peer-Reviewed Publication Database!

The database is currently in beta-testing and will be updated with more features as time goes on. In the meantime, stakeholders are free to explore our faculty’s numerous works. The left-hand panel affords the ability to search by the following:

  • Faculty Member’s Name;
  • Area of Expertise;
  • Whether the Publication is Open-Access (free for public download);
  • Journal Name; and
  • Date Range.

At present, the database covers publications from 2012 to 2020, but will extend further back in the future. In addition to listing publications, the database includes two types of impact metrics: Altmetrics and Plum. The database will be updated annually with most recent publications from our faculty.

If you have any questions or input, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

 

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Nadia Albu, Cătălin Nicolae Albu, Charles H. Cho, Caterina Pesci (2023). "Not on the Ruins, but with the Ruins of the Past – Inertia and Change in the Financial Reporting Field in a Transitioning Country", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 96, 102535.

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Abstract We investigate how local actors in the Romanian financial reporting field mobilize their indigeneity to enact and operationalize transnational financial reporting models in a context where neoliberal ideas represent a substantive change in respect to the past. We mobilize interviews with local key actors, evidence from multiple data sources, and Bourdieu’s concept of habitus to investigate how inertia and change are intertwined. We explain how the Romanian state continues to draw on and reproduce the local accounting inclinations inherited from communist times. At the macro level, the state’s actions (through the role of financial reporting regulator) suggest a strong agency exerted in the backstage, paralleling the appearance of accepting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the frontstage. At the micro level, where rules are operationalized, indigenous professionals deal with their historically created habitus and with various destabilizing influences from newcomers to the financial reporting field, which reflects diverse relationships and power imbalances between nascent actors of a market economy. We show that habitus is critical in understanding the complicated dynamics of inertia and change in accounting practices. Our results illustrate a web of improvisation, imitation, hybridization, and reinterpretation of both locally traditional and Western principles as local accounting rules and practices become global and remain local.

De Clercq, D. and Voronov, M. (2011). "Sustainability in Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Logics", International Small Business Journal, 29(4), 322-344.

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Abstract Given the uncertainty surrounding the role and meaning of sustainability in business practice, it is important to explore the legitimacy drivers that newcomers (entrepreneurs) to a field derive from balancing sustainability and profitability. Drawing on the institutional logics literature and Bourdieu’s notion of habitus, this article theorizes how the characteristics of the field, as well as entrepreneur characteristics and actions, influence the legitimacy derived from adhering to the field-prescribed balance between sustainability and profitability. First, regarding the role of field-level factors, we discuss how the impact of field-imposed expectations on entrepreneur legitimacy may be amplified for dominant and mature fields. Second, regarding the role of micro-level factors, we highlight that whilst previous experience of the field-prescribed balance between sustainability and profitability may amplify the impact of field-imposed expectations on legitimacy, strategic actions can suppress this impact.

De Clercq, D. and Voronov, M. (2009). "The Role of Domination in Newcomers’ Legitimation as Entrepreneurs", Organization, 16(6), 799-827.

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Abstract Drawing on Bourdieu’s social theory, we theorize two facets of legitimacy bestowed upon newcomers entering a field: institutional legitimacy, which represents the extent to which newcomers conform with the field’s current power arrangements (‘fit in’) and innovative legitimacy, which pertains to the extent to which newcomers challenge these arrangements (‘stand out’). We conceptualize newcomers’ ability to be endowed with these two facets of legitimacy by field incumbents as a necessary condition to be legitimized as ‘entrepreneurs’ and highlight the forces of domination inherent in this process. We further discuss the intricate and possibly conflicting relationship between incumbents’ expectations about the need for newcomers to fit in and stand out and how newcomers can artfully navigate between these two demands by artfully managing the meaning associated with their and others’ activities. Finally, we discuss the relationship between newcomers’ endowment with legitimacy and the reproduction or transformation of the field’s power arrangements.