Climate Measures and Reporting

Meet our members

About the director

Matthäus is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Accountancy. His research focuses on organization’s risk management and management accounting and control practices. Matthäus teaches courses on managerial accounting and enterprise risk management in the MBA and bachelor programs.

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Impact lab members

Hussam Al Maleh

Al Maleh is a PhD candidate in the Department of Accountancy. A project manager by trade, he investigates how innovation and entrepreneurship are impacted by management control in the uncertain field of sustainability in business. His research portfolio includes the topics of sustainability disclosure and the application of ESG in performance evaluation. Hussam’s research methodology consists of qualitative analysis (interviews, documents, and observation) using social psychology as the basis for interpreting findings.

Sophie Audousset-Coulier

Audousset-Coulier is a professor in the Department of Accountancy. Her research focuses on auditing, accounting practices, diversity, and sustainability (including fossil-fuel divestment movements, Environmental, Social and Governance disclosures, and ESG ratings). She is the co-editor in chief of the journal Comptabilité Contrôle Audit / Accounting Auditing Control.

Bianca Grohmann

Grohmann is a professor in the Department of Marketing. Her research examines branding, social responsibility, and gender-related topics from a consumer psychology perspective. She is the founder of Concordia University's Laboratory for Sensory Research.

Luo He

He is an associate professor in the Department of Accountancy. She holds a PhD in Accounting from Queen’s University, an MBA from Wake Forest University (USA), and a BA in Economics from Sichuan University (China).

Her research interests include sustainability accounting, financial reporting quality, corporate governance, and voluntary disclosure. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including European Accounting Review and Journal of Business Finance & Accounting. Her research has received funding from provincial (FRQSC) and national (SSHRC) agencies.

Xiaodan Pan

Pan, an academic scholar and industry veteran, joined the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University in 2018. Her research applies business analytics to enhance societal well-being, with a focus on retail and service operations. She investigates areas such as retail strategy, consumer stockpiling, disaster resilience, last-mile logistics, and technology innovation.

By examining these topics in the context of economic volatility, natural disasters, public health crises, and social inequality, her work offers insights that promote more efficient, resilient, and responsible business practices.

Begüm Sener

Sener is an assistant professor in the Department of Marketing. Her research focuses on digital communications and natural language processing.

Marziyeh Talebian

Talebian is a PhD candidate and part-time lecturer in the Department of Management. She conducts research at the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability. Her research exploring business model innovation as a strategic response to grand challenges has been published in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (FT 50). Marziyeh’s ongoing research explores how equity crowdfunding shapes the governance and performance of entrepreneurial firms as they grow and progress through their life cycles.

Yuyan Wei

Wei is an assistant professor in the Department of Marketing. Her research focuses on corporate sustainability strategies, word-of-mouth (WOM), and the marketing-finance interface. Her current work examines how firms adopt responsible and green innovation practices, respond to ESG-related media buzz and how these factors shape firm performance.