Bertrand Malsch

Top Tier Journals

Couchoux, O., and Malsch, B. How firms’ quality experts shape CPAB inspections and their outcomes: an analysis of intra-professional conflicts, third-party influences, and relational strategies. Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming.

Malsch, B., Tremblay, M.S., and Cohen, J.C. Non-audit engagements and the creation of public value: consequences for the public interest, Journal of Business Ethics, forthcoming.

Daoust, L., and Malsch, B. 2020. When the client is a former auditor: A Field Study of Auditees’ Influence on Audit Engagements Through Expert Knowledge and Social Capital (Selected for the CAR Conference 2018), Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming.

Daoust, L., and Malsch, B. 2019. How do ex-auditors remember their past: the transformation of audit experience into cultural memory. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 77.

Malsch, B. 2019. Discussion on “One team or two teams? Exploring relationship quality between auditors and IT specialists and its implications for a collective audit team identity and the audit process”. Auditing through politics, romance and institutional complexity. Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming.

Guénin-Paracini, H., Malsch, B., and Marché-Paillé, A. 2014. Fear and Risk in the Audit Process. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 39, 264-288

Malsch, B., and Gendron, Y. 2013. Re-theorizing Change: Institutional Experimentation and the Struggle for Domination in the Field of Public Accounting. Journal of Management Studies, 5, 871-899

Malsch, B. 2013. Politicizing the Expertise of the Accounting Industry in Corporate Social Responsibility. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 38, 149-168

Malsch, B., Gendron, Y. and Tremblay, M.S. 2012. Sense Making in Compensation Committees: A Cultural Theory Perspective. Organization Studies, 33, 389-421

Malsch, B. and Gendron, Y. 2011. Reining in Auditors: On the Dynamics of Power Surrounding an “Innovation” in the Regulatory Space. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 36, 456 – 476

Refereed journals 

Stack, R., and Malsch, B. Auditors’ professional identities: review and future directions. Accounting Perspectives, forthcoming.

Gendron, Y., Malsch, B., and Tremblay, M.S. 2021. Getting back to basics: challenging complexity and accountability in the boardroom, INNOVAR, 31(82), Special Monographic Issue on Critical Accounting.

Malsch, B., and O’Dwyer, B. 2021. New directions in auditing research: conceptual repair, technological disruption(s), local professional governance and the battle for inclusivity. European Accounting Review, 30(3), 439-444.

Hazgui, M., and Malsch, B. 2020. Navigating through the spatial and institutional contradictions of public audit oversight, European Accounting Review, 29(4), 781-802.

Kalyta, P., and Malsch, B. 2018. Ethnographic Accounting Research: Field Notes from the Frontier. Accounting Perspectives, 17(2), 241-252.

Malsch, B., and Morin, D. 2017. L'audit Législatif aux Frontières du Pouvoir et de la Politique. Contrôle, Comptabilité, Audit, 23, 75-96

Tremblay, M.S., Malsch, B., and Gendron, Y. 2016. Gender on Board: “Deconstructing the Legitimate Female Director”. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 29, 165-190

Malsch, B., and Salterio, S. 2015. “Doing Good Field Research”: Assessing the Quality of Audit Field Research. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 35, 1-22

Guénin-Paracini, H., Malsch, B. and Tremblay, M.S. 2015. The Reality of Auditors’ Operational

Independence: Lessons from the Field. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 34, 201236

Malsch, B. and Tessier, S. 2015. Journal Ranking Effects on Junior Academics. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 26, 84-98

Malsch, B. and Guénin-Paracini, H. 2013. The Moral Potential of Individualism and Instrumental Reason in Accounting Research. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 24, 74-82

Tremblay, M.S. and Malsch, B. 2012. The Public-Sector Audit Explosion: An Illusion of Control? Télescope : revue d’analyse comparée en administration publique, 18, 1-7

Malsch, B., Morin, D., and Tremblay, M.S. 2012. Collusion et Corruption Dans les Administrations : Les Vérificateurs Généraux Seraient-ils Condamnés à N’être Que Des tigres de Papier ? Télescope: revue d’analyse comparée en administration publique, 18, 173180

Malsch, B., Gendron, Y. and Grazzini, F. 2011. Investigating Interdisciplinary Translations: The Influence of Pierre Bourdieu on Accounting Literature. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 24, 194-228

Malsch, B. and Gendron, Y. 2009. Mythical Representation of Trust in Auditors and the Preservation of Social Order in the Financial Community. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 20, 735-750

Case Study

Stack, R., and Malsch, B. 2020. Clarke Building and Supplies Limited: Navigating Culture and Change. Submitted to Ivey Publishing.

Keolasy, R., Gendron, Y., and Malsch, B. 2012. L’affaire WorldCom : Incompétence ou complicité des auditeurs ? Revue Internationale de Cas en Gestion, 10, 1-19

Working Papers

Couchoux, O., and Malsch, B. “Dexterous with both hand”: Audit firms” response to CPAB inspections and the shift in institutional complexity. Status: Revise and resubmit (2^nd round) (Resubmitted April 2020), Contemporary Accounting Research

Couchoux, C., Daoust, L., and Malsch, B. Intercultural sensemaking in the audit process: Lessons from Indigenous engagements in the Canadian North. Status: Submitted (May 2020), Accounting, Organizations and Society

Gaudy, C., and Malsch, B. Can it be more than just a job? Sustainability assurance and the search for meaningfulness in small and medium practices. Status: Submitted (April 2020), Accounting, Organizations and Society

Gendron, Y., Malsch, B., and Tremblay, M.S. Getting backs to basics: challenging accountability and complexity in the boardroom. Status: Revise and Resubmit (2^nd round) (resubmitted: April 2019), Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Malsch, B., Tremblay, M.S., and Cohen, J.C. When do accounting firms produce public outcomes? (Re)positioning the public interest in auditing. Status: Revise and Resubmit (1^st round) (June

2019), Journal of Business Ethics

Opinion Editorials

Malsch, B. When ‘social license’ Costs Become Unbearable. National Post. 23 February 2016

Malsch, B. and Kalyta, P. Accounting for the Planet. The Globe and Mail. 9 December 2015

Malsch, B. and Tremblay, M.S. Le Coût de L’éthique. Huffington Post. 5 December 2015

Tremblay, M.S. and Malsch, B. Le verdict! La Presse. 25 November 2015

Malsch, B. Uber et Contre Tous ! Huffington Post. 15 May 2015

Malsch, B. Un Budget Amer. La Presse. 15 April 2015

Malsch, B. L’espoir Trudeau? Huffington Post. 15 March 2015

Malsch, B., and Tremblay, M.S. Les 12 Travaux de Carlos Leitao. Le Devoir. 3 June 2014

Malsch, B. Pour en Finir Avec les Économistes. Huffington Post. 28 May 2014

Malsch, B., and Tremblay, M.S. Les Risques de L’éthique. Huffington Post. 15 May 2014

Tremblay, M.S. and Malsch, B. La Vérification Dans le Secteur Public : le Risque D’une Illusion de Contrôle. Le Devoir (4 February 2013)

Malsch, B., Morin, D. and Tremblay, M.S. Où Sont Passés les Vérificateurs Généraux du Québec ? La Presse. 29 October 2012

Malsch, B., Provencher, A. and Tremblay, M.S. Budget Bachand - Crépuscule Budgétaire à Québec. Le Devoir. 24 March 2012

Malsch, B., Tremblay, M.S. and Gendron, Y. Rémunération et Indignation – Contre le Mythe Des Hauts Dirigeants Héroïques. Le Devoir. 9 January 2012

Malsch, B. and Tremblay, M.S. Élections fédérales – Les Femmes et le Sénat Conservateur. Le Devoir. 26 April 2011

In the Media

How auditors find their footing in the indigenous world, Smith Business Insight, May, 2018

Women On Boards: A Battle For Legitimacy, Smith Business Insight, March 2017

Lost in The Gap Between Rich and Poor, Smith Business Insight, January 2017

Radio Interview with Radio Canada. A Discussion on the OXFAM Report Entitled “An Economy for the 99 Percent.” 17 January 2017

TV Interview with Business News Network. A Discussion on the New Ontario Public Sector Executive Compensation Framework. 13 September 2016

Press Interview with Human Resources Reporter. Salary Caps Hit Ontario’s Broader Public Sector 19 September 2016

Press Interview with Human Resources Management Canada. Board members to blame for Ontario salary caps? 21 September 2016

The Greening of Profits, Smith Business Insight, December 2015

Fear and Auditing, Smith Business Insight, July 2015

Undergraduate Teachings

HEC Montreal

• Specialized topics in financial accounting (BAA-391606)
• Introduction to financial analysis (BAA-190206)
• Introduction to financial accounting (BAA-190106)

Smith School of Business

• Introduction to managerial accounting (COMM 112/ COMM 212)
• Management Control System (COMM 415)

Graduate Teachings

Smith School of Business

• Financial Accounting Theory (MACC 811)
• Accounting III – Management Accounting Research (MGMT 912)
• Introduction to accounting research – Field Studies (MGMT 915)
• Qualitative Methods – (MGMT 802)

Queen’s Faculty of law

• Accounting and the Law (Law 684)

Graduate Supervision

External Examiner

• Thesis committee – Ph.D., Yasser Alnafisah, Manchester School of Business (Defended, October 2019)

Smith School of Business

• Supervisor – Ph.D., Till-Arne Hahn (In progress) o Placement: Assistant Professor HEC Montreal
• Supervisor – Ph.D., Oriane Couchoux (In progress)
• Supervisor – Ph.D., Ryan Stack (In progress)
• Supervisor – Ph.D., Laurence Daoust (Completed, August, 2018) o Placement: Assistant Professor HEC Montreal
• Thesis committee – Ph.D., Russell Evans (Completed, November 2017)
• Thesis committee – Ph.D., Christie Hayne (Completed, July 2015)

HEC Montreal

• Supervisor – M.Sc. (completed): 3 students

Case Competitions

• Examiner - 2016 Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (I.C.B.C.)
• Examiner - 2017 Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (I.C.B.C.)
• Examiner - 2018 Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (I.C.B.C.)
• Examiner - 2019 Inter-Collegiate Business Competition (I.C.B.C.)

Visiting Positions

Visiting Professor
Toulouse School of Management, France
2018

Visiting Research Student
University of Alberta, Canada
2011

Visiting Research Student
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
2009-2010

Guest Speaker Presentations

Sustainability assurance practice and the search for meaningfulness in small and medium practices. Schulich School of Business, Toronto; January 2020

Creating public value in professional service firms: the case of client-acceptance decision. Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary University, Halifax; January 2020

Professionalism vs. Commercialism: The audit firm as a business unit, Doctoral Class, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal; March 2019

When the client is a former auditor: A Field Study of Auditees’ Influence on Audit Engagements

Through Expert Knowledge and Social Capital. Boston College, Boston, USA; March 2019

Auditors’ strategic and conflicting responses to CPAB inspections: acquiescing, compromising, avoiding. University Central Florida, Orlando, USA; February 2019

‘New Directions in Auditing Research’, Speaker in Plenary Panel, European Accounting Association, Milan, Italy; June 2018

When the client is a former auditor: A Field Study of Auditees' Influence on Audit Engagements Through Expert Knowledge and Social Capital. Toulouse School of Management, Toulouse, France; May 2018

How to Become an Ex-auditor: Past, Present and Memory of a Big Four Experience. Manchester School of Business; November 2017

Discussion on “One Team or Two Teams? Exploring Relationship Quality Between Auditor and IT Specialists and its Implications for a Collective Audit Team Identity and the Audit Process”. Status: under review”. Contemporary Accounting Research Conference, Waterloo, October 2016

(Re)Theorizing Professional Change. Institutional Change and Regulatory Rescaling. HEC Paris, Paris; June 2016

When Social License Costs Become Unbearable. Western Transportation Advisory Council, 2016 Spring Member Forum, Edmonton; May 2016

Critical Perspectives on Sustainability and Accountability, Doctoral Class, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal; March 2015

Getting Back to Basics. Deconstructing Complexity in the Boardroom. John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal; November 2014

Doing Qualitative Research in Corporate Governance, Doctoral Consortium at the Auditing Section Midyear Conference, American Accounting Association, San Antonio, Texas; January 2014

(Re)empowering Compensation Committees, Queens’ School of Business; February 2013

Accounting Matters! Contemporary Accounting Research Conference, Ottawa; October 2012

The Energy of Shame: Emotional Episodes and Institutional Work, ESCP Paris, June 2012

‘Research Diversity in Accounting’, Speaker in Plenary Panel, European Accounting Association, Ljubljana, Slovenia; May 2012

(Re)empowering Compensation Committees, Schulich School of Business; June 2012

Accounting Firms as Political Agents of Depoliticization: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility, University of Alberta School of Business; February 2011

Risk, Blame and Allegiance in Compensation Committees: A Cultural Theory Perspective, Amsterdam Business School; November 2009

Risk, Blame and Allegiance in Compensation Committees: A Cultural Theory Perspective, Copenhagen Business School; October 2009

Scholarly Conferences

Cochoux, O., and Malsch, B. Auditors’ strategic and conflicting responses to CPAB inspections:

acquiescing, compromising. 8^th EIASM workshop on accounting and regulation, Siena, Italy: June 2019

Daoust L., and Malsch, B. When the client is a former auditor: A Field Study of Auditees' Influence on Audit Engagements Through Expert Knowledge and Social Capital. CAR Conference, Banff, Canada: October 2018

Daoust L., and Malsch, B. When the client is a former auditor: A Field Study of Auditees' Influence on Audit Engagements Through Expert Knowledge and Social Capital. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh: July 2018

Malsch, B., Tremblay, M.S., and Cohen, J.C. When do accounting firms produce public outcomes? (Re)positioning the public interest in auditing. Alternative Account Conference, HEC Montreal: May 2018

Malsch, B., and Daoust, D. How to Become an Ex-auditor: Past, Present and Memory of a Big Four Experience. PIAG Workshop, Schulich School of Business, Toronto: October 2017

Malsch, B., Gendron, Y., and Tremblay, M.S. “I Know What I Don’t Know”. A Study of Ignorance and Negative Knowledge in Executives’ Compensation. Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, FSA, Université Laval, Québec City; May 2017

Malsch, B., and Hazgui, M. (Re)Theorizing Professional Change. Institutional Change and Regulatory Rescaling. Alternative Account Conference, Telfer School of Business, Ottawa; April 2016

Gendron, Y., Malsch, B., and Tremblay, M.S. Getting Back to Basics. Deconstructing Complexity in the Boardroom. Alternative Account Conference, Telfer School of Business, Ottawa; April 2015

Guénin-Paracini, H., Malsch, B. and Tremblay, M.S. 2014. The Reality of Auditors’ Operational

Independence: Lessons from the Field. European Accounting Association Conference, Estonia School of Business, Tallinn; May 2014

Micro Games of Power in Auditing: Getting Comfortable with the Auditee. European Accounting Association Conference, Université Dauphine, Paris; May 2013

Micro Games of Power in Auditing: Getting Comfortable with the Auditee Alternative Accounts in Accounting Research, Schulich School of Business; April 2013

Re-theorizing Change: Institutional Experimentation and the Struggle for Domination in the Field of Public Accounting. European Accounting Association Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia; May 2012

The Moral Potential of Individualism and Instrumental Reason in Accounting Research. European Accounting Association Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia; May 2012

Reining in Auditors: On the Dynamics of Power Surrounding an ‘Innovation’ in the Regulatory Space. International Symposium on Audit Research, Quebec; June 2011

Activism in stakeholder democracy: A Critical Ethnography of a Group of Small Shareholders. Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Clearwater, Florida; July 2011

Independent Audit Regulators and the Reproduction of Conflicts of Interests in the Field of Public Accounting. Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Accounting, Innsbrück, Austria; July 2009

Social Change and Social Reproduction in the Field of Public Accounting. Fourth Alternative

Perspectives in Accounting Research Conference; Avril 2009

Conference Organizer

Alternative Accounts Conference, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University Kingston; May 2019

Fellowships

PricewaterhouseCoopers/Tom O’Neill Fellow of Accounting, $35,000 (2017-2020)

Queen’s School of Business, Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Accounting, $30,000 (2014-2017)

Research Awards

Queen's School of Business, New Researcher Achievement Award, $5,000 (2014)

Highly commended in the 2012 AAAJ/Emerald/European Foundation for Management Development Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (2012)

Scholarships

Dean’s Scholarship, $10,000 (2011)

Port de Québec Scholarship, $2,500 (2008)

University Laval Foundation Scholarship, $8000 (2008)

Other

Best Student Case Award for the Case Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) for the case entitled: “Clarke Building and Supplies Limited: Navigating Culture and Change”. (2020)

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ) Mary Parker Follett Best Paper Award for the paper entitled: “Gender on board: “Deconstructing the legitimate female director.” (2016)

A Journal of Practice and Theory (AJPT) Best Paper of the year Award and $1,000 for the paper entitled: “On the Operational Reality of Auditors’ Independence: Lessons from the Field.” (2016)

Emerald Literary Award and Citations of Excellence Winner for paper entitled: “Re-theorizing change: Institutional experimentation and the struggle for domination in the field of public accounting.” (2016)

Highly commended in the 2012 Parker Follett Best Paper Award (2012)

Faculté des Sciences de l’Administration Honour Roll (2009)

Grants & Funding

Bertrand Malsch (Principal Researcher) with Laurence Daoust and Oriane Couchoux. ‘Jumping on the Start-Ups Bandwagon: A Field Study on the Role of Accountants and Financial Information in Tech Start-Ups in Canada’. (2018)
CPA Canada-CAAA Special Topics Research Grant Program | $9,960

Bertrand Malsch (Principal Researcher) with Pavlo Kalyta and Marie-Soleil Tremblay. ‘Inside tax havens and the making of offshore accounting in Canada.’
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) | $151,375

Bertrand Malsch, Pavlo Kalyta and Tina Dacin. ‘Accounting Firms, Corporate Accountability, and Aboriginal Peoples.’ (2016)
General Research Grant competition, Smith School of Business | $25,000

Henri Guénin-Paracini and Bertrand Malsch. ‘The Role of Emotions in Auditors’ Practices.’ (2016)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) | $96,206

‘Professional Expertise of Economists in Times of Crisis: Practices, Calculations and Rationality.’ (2012)
Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC) | $39,600

Editorial and Reviewing Activities

• Accounting, Organizations, and Society (2022)
• Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (2020)
• Accounting Horizons (2018 - 2022)
• Behavioral Research in Accounting (2017 - 2022)
• Accounting and Business Research (2016 - 2022)

• Contemporary Accounting Research (2018)
• European Accounting Review (2018)
  • Guest Editor Special Issue: “New directions in auditing research”

• Contemporary Accounting Review (2015)
• European Accounting Review (2015)
• Accounting, Organizations and Society (2014)
• Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2014)
• Journal of Accounting and the Public Interest (2018)
• Accounting Forum (2019)

• The Accounting Review (2020)
• Journal of Information System (2020)
• M@n@gement (2019)
• Long Planning Review (2019)
• Accounting forum (2019)
• British Journal of Industrial Relations (2015)
• Regulation & Governance (2015)
• European Accounting Review (2014)
• Organization (2014)
• Accounting Education an International Journal (2013)
• Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (2013)
• Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (2013)
• Contrôle, Comptabilité, Audit (2013)
• Human Relations (2013)
• Organization Studies (2011)
• Public Administration (2012)
• Journal of Management Studies (2011)

• 2018 CAAA Research Grant Program
• 2018 SSHRC Insight Grants Program
• 2020 SSHRC Insight Grants Program
  • Member of the adjudication committee
• 2021 SSHRC Insight Grants Program
  • Co-chair of the adjudication committee

Memberships

Board member of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association and Chair of the Research Committee (Since 2020)

Member of the External Reporting Advisory Group of the Canadian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (Since 2020)

Member of the Quebec Cannabis Oversight Committee (Since 2019)

Member of the Quebec Bar (Since 2019)

Member of the American Accounting Association

Member of the European Accounting Association