Teaching
- Finance
- Management
Qualifications
- Ph.D, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China (2012-2016)
- MBA, Institute of Management Science Multan, Pakistan (2008-2010)
- BBA, Management, Business and IT, Institute of Management Science Multan, Pakistan (2004-2008)
Research interests
- Financial Management
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Financing Policies
- Firm performance
- Sustainability
Work experience
- Associate professor, Finance and Accounting Academic Area, Rennes School of Business (September 2020 – Present)
- Assistant professor, Finance and Accounting Academic Area, Rennes School of Business (September 2017 – August 2020)
- Assistant professor, Finance and Accounting Academic Area, Air University, Pakistan (October 2016 – August 2017)
- Management Trainee, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan (2010 – 2012)
Intellectual contributions
Published Articles
- Beyond the balance sheet: Assessing corporate governance through the lens of debtholders, International Review of Financial Analysis, Vol. 96, Issue November (2024).
- Does Local Culture Affect CSR Transparency? The Effect of Corruption Culture on CSR Decoupling, International Journal of Accounting, Available online (2024).
- Does climate governance affect waste disclosure: Evidence from the U.S., Applied Economics, Vol. 56, Issue 43 (2024).
- Does corruption sand the wheels of sustainable development? Evidence through green innovation, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 33, Issue 5 (2024).
- Do firms walk the talk when economic uncertainty is high?, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 436, Issue January (2024).
- Does brand capital improve stock liquidity? Evidence from China, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Available online (2023).
- The impact of policy uncertainty on corporate innovation in China: The moderating role of family ownership and political connections, Applied Economics, Available online (2023).
- How to deal with customer-supplier concentrations to attain sustainable financial growth: Evidence from China, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 32, Issue 7 (2023).
- Striving to safeguard shareholders or maintain sustainability in periods of high uncertainty: A multi-country evidence, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 118, Issue March (2023).
- Does country-level eco-innovation help reduce corporate CO2 emissions? Evidence from Europe, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 379, Issue December (2022).
- Does waste management affect firm performance? International evidence, Economic Modelling, Vol. 114, Issue September (2022).
- Do corporate governance mechanisms curb the anti-environmental behavior of firms across the world? An illustration through waste management, Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 310, Issue May (2022).
- Economic policy uncertainty and sustainable financial growth: Does business strategy matter?, Finance Research Letters, Vol. 46, Issue May (2022).
- The impact of financial flexibility and directors’ academic experience on corporate R&D investments: A Quantile regression approach, Applied Economics, Vol. 54, Issue 17 (2022).
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm-Value: The Role of Sensitive Industries and CEOs Power in China, Applied Economics, Vol. 54, Issue 16 (2022).
- How to deal with policy uncertainty to attain sustainable growth: The role of corporate governance, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, Vol. 21, Issue 1 (2021).
- The nexus between policy uncertainty, sustainability disclosure, and firm performance, Applied Economics, Vol. 53, Issue 4 (2021).
- Investment opportunities, corporate governance quality, and firm performance in the UAE, Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, Vol. 10, Issue 2 (2020).
- Investor-advisor Big Five personality similarity and stock trading performance, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 109, Issue March (2020).
- The impact of sustainability (environmental, social, and governance) disclosure and board diversity on firm value: The moderating role of industry sensitivity, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 29, Issue 3 (2020).
- Corporates strategic responses to economic policy uncertainty in China, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 29, Issue 2 (2020).
- The impact of financial liberalization on capital structure adjustment in Pakistan: a doubly censored modelling, Applied Economics, Vol. 49, Issue 41 (2017).
- Mean reverting financial leverage: Theory and evidence from Pakistan, Applied Economics, Vol. 48, Issue 5 (2016).
Refereed Proceedings – Discipline-Based Scholarship
- “Steering Through Uncertainty: How Corporate Governance Influence the Conception of Debtholders.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting – (2024). Available online here.
- “Does Eco-Innovation Now Help Mitigate Future Climate Change Risk? Recent Evidence from Europe.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting – (2022). Available online here.
- “Business Strategy and Sustainable Growth of Chinese Firms: The Moderating Role of Supplier-Concentration.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting – (2020). Available online here.
Chapters, Cases, Readings, Supplements
Chapter
- “Corporate governance, competition and corporate performance: a comparative analysis of the Muslim world with rest of the world.”, Research in Corporate and Shari’ah Governance in the Muslim World: Theory and Practice. Emerald, 2019. Available online here.
- “Equity and Debt Financing Strategies to Fuel Global Business Operations during Crisis.”, Global Financial Crisis and its Ramifications on Global Economic Activity. Springer, 2017. Available online here.