2026 Michel Magnan: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	45	1263	1180	56	51	233	12594
Economics and Finance	45	1730	1555	44	38	228	12565

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Michel Magnan is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada and has an extensive record of research in the field of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their work spans a range of subfields including Accounting, Strategy and Management, Finance, Marketing, and Management Information Systems.

The main topics explored in their research include:

Corporate Finance and Governance
Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
Environmental Sustainability in Business
Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies

Michel Magnan has published frequently in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Managerial Auditing Journal
Journal of Financial Reporting & Accounting
International Journal of Managerial Finance
Accounting in Europe

Notable recent papers include:

"Are ESG performance-based incentives a panacea or a smokescreen for excess compensation?" (2023), published in Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal
"Environmental and social transparency and investment efficiency: The mediating effect of analysts' monitoring" (2021), Journal of Cleaner Production
"The association between voluntary disclosure in audit committee reports and banks' earnings management" (2020), Managerial Auditing Journal
"Auditors and the Principal-Principal Agency Conflict in Family Controlled Firms" (2020), Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory
"Risk Management in Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses and How Accountants Contribute" (2022), Contemporary Accounting Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Michel Magnan include:

Ahmad Hammami
Denis Cormier
Rucsandra Moldovan
Mahmoud Delshadi
Emilio Boulianne

Michel Magnan was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2014 by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

Environmental disclosure quality in large German companies: Economic incentives, public pressures or institutional conditions?

Denis Cormier;Michel Magnan;Barbara Van Velthoven

1409
Citations
Environmental reporting management: a continental European perspective

Denis Cormier;Michel Magnan

977
Citations
Corporate environmental disclosure strategies: Determinants, costs and benefits

Denis Cormier;Michel Magnan

785
Citations
Corporate environmental disclosure, financial markets and the media: An international perspective

Walter Aerts;Denis Cormier;Michel Magnan

564
Citations
The informational contribution of social and environmental disclosures for investors

Denis Cormier;Marie‐Josée Ledoux;Michel Magnan

529
Citations
Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Contrasting Management's Perceptions with Reality

Denis Cormier;Irene M. Gordon;Michel Magnan

519
Citations
Intra-industry imitation in corporate environmental reporting: An international perspective

Walter Aerts;Denis Cormier;Michel Magnan

481
Citations
The Economic Relevance of Environmental Disclosure and its Impact on Corporate Legitimacy: An Empirical Investigation

Denis Cormier;Michel Magnan

466
Citations
The revisited contribution of environmental reporting to investors' valuation of a firm's earnings: An international perspective

Denis Cormier;Michel Magnan

449
Citations
Is Environmental Governance Substantive or Symbolic? An Empirical Investigation.

Michelle Rodrigue;Michel Magnan;Charles H. Cho

443
Citations
Stakeholders’ influence on environmental strategy and performance indicators: A managerial perspective

Michelle Rodrigue;Michel Magnan;Emilio Boulianne

346
Citations
Investors' assessment of implicit environmental liabilities: An empirical investigation

Denis Cormier;Michel Magnan

346
Citations
Corporate governance and information asymmetry between managers and investors

Denis Cormier;Marie‐Josée Ledoux;Michel Magnan;Walter Aerts

286
Citations
The impact of corporate pollution on market valuation: some empirical evidence

Denis Cormier;Michel Magnan;Bernard Morard

252
Citations
Attributes of social and human capital disclosure and information asymmetry between managers and investors

Denis Cormier;Walter Aerts;Marie-Josée Ledoux;Michel Magnan

241
Citations
Fair Value Accounting and the Financial Crisis: Messenger or Contributor?*

Michel L. Magnan

235
Citations
The use of Web sites as a disclosure platform for corporate performance

Denis Cormier;Marie-Josée Ledoux;Michel Magnan

210
Citations
The Impact of Mandated Disclosure on Performance‐Based CEO Compensation

Jane A. Craighead;Michel L. Magnan;Linda Thorne

194
Citations
The Stock Market Valuation of R&D Information in Biotech Firms*

Bixia Xu;Michel L. Magnan;Paul E. André

186
Citations
Fair value accounting: information or confusion for financial markets?

Michel Magnan;Michel Magnan;Andrea Menini;Antonio Parbonetti

173
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis Cormier University of Quebec at Montreal

Sabri Boubaker EM Normandie

Jeffrey R. Cohen Boston College

Timothy J. Fogarty Case Western Reserve University

Jeong-Bon Kim City University of Hong Kong

External Links

Personal website of Michel Magnan Google Scholar page

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