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Department
Département
Accounting, management control & economics
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Management Control
Corporate Social Responsibility
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
Accounting & Auditing
Biography
Biographie
John joined Audencia Business School in 2022 as a professor in accounting. Before joining Audencia, John has worked at University of Liverpool Management School as an associate professor in accounting. John obtained his PhD in Accounting in the Australian National University in 2012 and started teaching accounting courses from 2009 in both Australia and UK. John has taught numerous accounting modules at both under graduate and post graduate levels. John has extensively published in internationally leading accounting journals such as European Accounting Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Auditing: a Journal of Practice and Theory, Accounting Forum, Sustainability Reporting, Management and Policy Journal etc.
Diplomas
PhD in Accounting
Australian National University, Canberra
(2012)
Master's Degree, Business administration, Management Control
Australian National University, Canberra
(2008)
Publications
Published
FLORACKIS C., DEWAN M.-A.-M., SUSHIL S., ZHANG J. Z., (2025). Stock Market Reaction to Mandatory Carbon Disclosure Announcements: The Role of Institutional Investors.
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 99 (1), 102 to 113
ZHANG J. Z., (2025). What Role Do Directors’ Networks Play in Corporate Brownwashing?.
Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 34 (1), page 1 to page 24
WENQIN LI W., BENKRAIEM R., DING R., SAADI S., ZHANG J. Z., (2024). Board centrality and environmental disclosures; evidence from polluting industries in China.
Emerging Markets Review, 60, 101 - 146
ZHANG J. Z., YANG J., (2023). The inevitable disclosure doctrine and CEO risk-taking incentives.
Asia Pacific Journal Of Accounting and Economics
ZHANG J. Z., DING R., (2023). Impact of Directors’ Network on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure: Evidence from China.
Journal of Business Ethics
ZHANG J. Z., SAINANI S., (2021). Protection of trade secrets and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine.
Journal of Business Research
ZHANG J. Z., SHEN H., (2020). Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy in China: Recent Developments and Future Avenues.
Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal
ZHANG J. Z., FARGHER N., (2019). Do Banks Audited by Specialists Engage in Less Real Activities Management? Evidence from Repurchase Agreements.
Auditing, A Journal of Practice and Theory
ZHANG J. Z., HOU W., (2018). The Burden of Attention: CEO Publicity and Tax Avoidance.
Journal of Business Research
ZHANG J. Z., HOU W., (2018). Media Censorship and Stock Price: Evidence from the Foreign Share Discount in China.
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
ZHANG J. Z., YU Y., (2016). Does board independence affect audit fees? Evidence from Recent Regulatory Reforms.
European Accounting Review
ZHANG J. Z., (2014). Asset securitizations and credit default swaps.
Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments
ZHANG J. Z., FARGHER N., (2014). Changes in the Measurement of Fair Value: Implications for Accounting Earnings.
Accounting Forum
Forthcoming
ZHANG J. Z., (2025). Stock Market Reaction to Mandatory Carbon Disclosure Announcements: The Role of Institutional Investors.
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
ZHANG J. Z., (2025). Liquidity Constraints and Auditor Responses to Repo Transactions.
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
ZHANG J. Z., (2025). The Nuanced Interplay between Blockholders and Audit Fees: Empirical Evidence from the UK Alternative Investment Market.
Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation
Press articles
ZHANG J. Z., (2025). what is offsetting?.
FNEGE Medias
ZHANG J. Z., (2023). Derrière les faillites bancaires, la main invisible des banques parallèles.
The Conversation
ZHANG J. Z., (2023). Behind bank failures, the invisible hand of shadow banking.
Financial Times
Professional conference
ZHANG J. Z., (2025). Journal of Business Finance and Accounting Conference.
ZHANG J. Z., (2025). French Finance Association Conference.
ZHANG J. Z., (2024). Liquidity Constraints and Auditor Responses to Real Activities Management.
ZHANG J. Z., (2024). Quantitative Finance and Data Analytics Conference 2024.
ZHANG J. Z., (2024). European Financial Management Association Conference 2024.
ZHANG J. Z., BENKRAIEM R., SAADI S., DING R., (2024). Does it Pay to Retain Talent? Evidence from Debt Contracting (AFS Summer Conference).
ZHANG J. Z., (2023). European Accounting Association Annual Conference.
Scientific activities
Associate Editor of an academic journal
Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics
2025
Member of the board of directors of an academic association
Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe)
2024
Reviewer for an academic journal
reviewer for Aisia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics
2024
reviewer for British Accounting Review
2023
reviewer for International Review of Financial Analysis
2021
Member of the editorial board of an academic journal
editorial board member of Sustainability Management and Policy Journal
2023
Awards and honors
British Academy Research Grant, 2016