Yves Gendron

Yves Gendron is a Canadian accounting academic and qualitative researcher, largely known for his studies in corporate governance, social accountability of auditors, and professional legitimacy.

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. He became a CA in 1987. Post-certification, he spent most of 1992 completing propaedeutic courses at Université Laval in order to meet the requirements of admission to the PhD program. He completed his PhD in Science Administration at Université Laval from 1993 to 1997. 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.

Gendron currently conducts his research and teaches at Laval University and has been since 2006. His main teaching and research fields are audit, governance, and research methodology. Some of his notable publications concern the construction of expertise, the transformation of ideas in the business world, corporate governance, professional identity, legitimacy and auditor independence, as well as the epistemology of research in accounting. Gendron is also the co-editor of the peer-reviewed accounting journal Critical Perspectives on Accounting

• 1985-1989: junior auditor and later first auditor at Samson Bélair, Rimouski.
• 1989-1992: auditing director at Deloitte & Touche, Rimouski.
• 1998-2006: accounting professor at the University of Alberta.

• Gendron received the Faculty of Business Administration at Université Laval Hermès award for research excellence in 2011.
• Gendron was awarded the Research Medal at Université Laval for three consecutive years (2010, 2011, 2012). This medal is attributed to a group within the professorial body of the faculty in order to recognize their research publications during the past two years.
• Gendron was also awarded the Socrate Distinction for the following academic school years: 2008-2009, 2009-2010, and 2010-2011. This distinction is attributed to professors who have distinguished themselves through their teaching and instruction.
• In 2011, Gendron received the Outstanding Reviewer Award by the Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.
• Gendron also contributed to the publication that received the High commendation paper, Mary Parker Follett Award in 2011 and to the publication that won the Outstanding paper, Mary Parker Follett Award in 2005.

• Gendron, Y., Suddaby, R., and Qu, S.Q. 2009. Professional-organisational commitment: A study of Canadian professional accountants. Australian Accounting Review, 19(3), 231-248.
• Picard, C.-F., Durocher, S., and Gendron, Y. Forthcoming. From meticulous professionals to superheroes of the business world: A historical portrait of a cultural change in the field of accountancy. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.
• Gendron, Y., and Suddaby, R. 2004. Professional insecurity and the erosion of accountancy’s jurisdictional boundaries. Canadian Accounting Perspectives, 3(1), 85-115.