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Business and Management
Iran
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Iran Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Iran Leader Award

Overview

Mahdi Salehi is affiliated with Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on subfields including Accounting, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, and Finance.

Salehi's research encompasses several main topics:

  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
  • Corporate Governance and Financial Management
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies

Their recent published papers include:

  • The relationship between corporate governance and financial reporting transparency, 2022, Journal of financial reporting & accounting
  • Sustainability Reporting and Corporate Reputation: The Moderating Effect of CEO Opportunistic Behavior, 2022, Sustainability
  • Business strategy, intellectual capital, firm performance, and bankruptcy risk: evidence from Oman's non-financial sector companies, 2021, Asian Review of Accounting
  • The relationship between management characteristics and financial statement readability, 2020, EuroMed Journal of Business
  • The relationship between board characteristics and social responsibility with firm innovation, 2022, European Journal of Management and Business Economics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Salehi include:

  • Grzegorz Zimon
  • Mahmoud Lari Dashtbayaz
  • Mahdi Moradi
  • Arash Arianpoor
  • Tamanna Dalwai

Salehi often publishes in these academic journals:

  • Journal of Facilities Management
  • Management Research Review
  • The TQM Journal
  • Journal of Public Affairs
  • Journal of Islamic accounting and business research

Best Publications

  • Usefulness of Accounting Information System in Emerging Economy: Empirical Evidence of Iran

    Mahdi Salehi;Vahab Rostami;Abdolkarim Mogadam

  • E-Banking in Emerging Economy: Empirical Evidence of Iran

    Mahdi Salehi;Mehrdad Alipour

  • A Study of on the Job Training Effectiveness: Empirical Evidence of Iran

    Mehrdad Alipour;Mahdi Salehi;Ali Shahnavaz

  • Competitive Advantages and Strategic Information Systems

    Mahmood Hemmatfar;Mahdi Salehi;Marziyeh Bayat

  • Fraud Detection and Audit Expectation Gap: Empirical Evidence from Iranian Bankers

    Mahdi Salehi;Zhila Azary

  • Audit Competence and Audit Quality: Case in Emerging Economy

    Ali Mansouri;Reza Pirayesh;Mahdi Salehi

  • Sustainability Reporting and Corporate Reputation: The Moderating Effect of CEO Opportunistic Behavior

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  • Business strategy, intellectual capital, firm performance, and bankruptcy risk: evidence from Oman's non-financial sector companies

    Tamanna Dalwai;Mahdi Salehi

  • Audit expectation gap: Concept, nature and trace

    Mahdi Salehi

  • Corporate social responsibility and future financial performance: Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange

    Mahdi Salehi;Mahmoud Lari DashtBayaz;Sohila Khorashadizadeh

  • Audit Independence and Expectation Gap: Empirical Evidences from Iran

    Mahdi Salehi;Ali Mansoury;Zhila Azary

  • The relationship between corporate governance and financial reporting transparency

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  • Study of the Relationship between Capital Structure Measures and Performance: Evidence from Iran

    Mahdi Salehi;Kumars Biglar

  • A meta-analysis approach for determinants of effective factors on audit quality: Evidence from emerging market

    Mahdi Salehi;Mohamad Reza Fakhri Mahmoudi;Ali Daemi Gah

  • The Driving Factors of Italy’s CO2 Emissions Based on the STIRPAT Model: ARDL, FMOLS, DOLS, and CCR Approaches

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  • The relationship between board characteristics and social responsibility with firm innovation

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  • The relationship between management characteristics and financial statement readability

    Maryam Seifzadeh;Mahdi Salehi;Bizhan Abedini;Mohammad Hossien Ranjbar

  • A study of the barriers of implementation of accounting information system: Case of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange

    Mahdi Salehi

  • The Relationship between Intellectual Capital with Economic Value Added and Financial Performance

    Mahdi Salehi;Gholamreza Enayati;Parisa Javadi

  • Empirical study on the effective factors of social responsibility disclosure of Iranian companies

    Mahdi Salehi;Hossein Tarighi;Malihe Rezanezhad

  • The relationship between managerial entrenchment, earnings management and firm innovation

    Mahdi Salehi;Mahbubeh Mahmoudabadi;Mohammad Sadegh Adibian

  • The relationship between board of directors’ structure and company ownership with corporate social responsibility disclosure: Iranian angle

    Mahdi Salehi;Hossein Tarighi;Malihe Rezanezhad

  • The effect of characteristics of audit committee and board on corporate profitability in Iran

    Mahdi Salehi;Mohammad Tahervafaei;Hossein Tarighi

  • Audit committee impact on the quality of financial reporting and disclosure: Evidence from the Tehran Stock Exchange

    Mahdi Salehi;Mohammadamin Shirazi

Frequent Co-Authors

Niranjan Nagarajan
Niranjan Nagarajan Genome Institute of Singapore
Adelchi Azzalini
Adelchi Azzalini University of Padua
Keyvan Raeissi
Keyvan Raeissi Isfahan University of Technology
Reza Ansari
Reza Ansari University of Guilan
Ronny Berndtsson
Ronny Berndtsson Lund University
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan McMaster University

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