السيرة الذاتية
Professor Ridha Mohamed SHABOU
Finance Department
College of Business Administration
King Saud University
CONTACT
Name: Ridha Mohamed SHABOU
Nationality: Tunisian
Date and place of birth: 28 September 1960, Sfax, Tunisia
Social status: Married, two children
Postal address 1 Finance Department, CBA-KSU, P.O Box 71115 - Al-Riyadh 11785
Postal address 2 15, Road Jameleddine Afghani, El Bostan, Sfax – Tunisia
Electronic address: rshabou@ksu.edu.sa
Web site http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/rshabou/home
Telephone (Saudi Arabia) : (00966) - 11 - 46 74 336 (bureau)
(00966) 553 428 322 (mobile)
Fax (Saudi Arabia) (00966) – 11 – 46 73 763
Telephone (Tunisia): (00 216) - 98 641 584 (mobile)
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Ph.D. University of Tunis, 1997
M.SC. University of Tunis, 1985
B.B.A. University of Sfax, 1983
WORK EXPERIENCE
Professor – Department of Finance, CBA-KSU, December 2007 – present
Professor - Department of Finance, University of Sfax, Tunisia, March, 2006 – present
Associate Professor, University of Sfax, Tunisia, June 1999- March 2006
TEACHING
Undergraduate level:
Principles of Finance (FIN 200), Corporate Finance (FIN 210), Fundamentals of Investments (FIN 220), Cases Studies in investment (FIN 461)
Graduate level:
Corporate Finance (FIN 501), Financial Management (BUS 521), Corporate Finance (Bus 525), Financing Decisions (FIN 541) and Advanced Topics in Finance (BUS 528)
Doctoral level:
Theory of Finance (FIN 611), Seminar in Corporate Finance (FIN 614), Current Issues in Finance (FIN 630), Research Proposal Dissertation (FIN 700).
MASTER/ PHD COMMITTEES
2010- 2013: Council of graduate programs in business, member, CBA – KSU
2009 – Present: Master of business (Mbus) Committee, member, CBA - KSU
2008 – Present: PhD committee – member, CBA – KSU- Saudi Arabia
1999 – 2006: PhD committee – member, FSEGS, University of Sfax -Tunisia
1998-2006: M.S.F committee, member, FSEGS, University of Sfax – Tunisia
DISSERTATION SUPERVISION
1999 – present- Have supervised / guided 200 undergraduate students; 22 graduate students; and 14 doctoral students in their research projects
REFERRED ARTICLES
1. Ridha Shabou, (2015), “Conflicts of interest in the edition of scientific articles: a case study”, Responsible.unige.ch, N0 60.
2. Ridha Shabou, (2015), “Scientific and Ethical Issues in Financial Markets Research: Potentially Critical Incidents”, under review in Journal of Business Ethics (ISI Journal).
3. Ridha Shabou (2015), “May Intensive Board Monitoring lead to a better understanding of the interactions between Board of Directors and Ownership Structure in Saudi Arabia” Working Paper, College of Business Administration, KSU. With Hanane AlHussein.
4. Ridha Shabou, (2010), “Crisis Transmission and Governance: Evidence from East Asian Countries”, International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, Issue 60, with Hanene Zine, Bernard Olivero
5. Ridha Shabou (2010) “The Link between Firm’s Social Performance and Earnings Management” Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 27, N0. 4, pp. 320-334 (ISI Journal) with Rim Makni Gargouri, Claude Francoeur.
6. Ridha Shabou, (2010) “Income Smoothing Practices: Evidence from Banks Operating in OECD Countries” International Journal of Economics and Finance, November, vol 2, N0 4., pp. 140-150. With Neila Boulila Taktak and Pascal Dumontier
7. Ridha Shabou (2009), “Crisis Propagation and Governance” (in French) French Revue of Corporate Governance, number 6, with Hanene Zine, Bernard Olivero
8. Ridha Shabou, (2008) “Manager’s Entrenchment Strategies and Corporate Bankruptcy: An Empirical Analysis”, The Journal of Global Business Management, Volume 4, Number 1, April . pp.155-163. With and Daniel Zeghal
9. Ridha Shabou, (2008) “Audit Quality, Corporate Governance and Earnings Management»,. The Review of Economics and Business, N 1, pp. 1-27. Qassim University. With Fatma Zehri.
10. Ridha Shabou, (2003) « The Nature of Block-holders, Governance Mechanisms and Firms Financial Performance» (in French), Revue Gestion 2000, November-December, N°6. pp.125-144.
11. Ridha Shabou, (2002) «The Determinants of Creative Accounting: An empirical Study in the Tunisian Context » (in French), Comptabilité Contrôle Audit, May, vol1, pp. 5-24. With and Neila Boulila Taktak,
12. Ridha Shabou, (2001) « Degree and Nature of Ownership Concentration and Corporate Borrowing: the Tunisian Case”. (In English), paper presented in “journées de micro-économie appliqué” organised at the University of Nancy2, 6 and 7 June 2001.
13. Ridha Shabou, (1999), «The Indirect Costs of Financial Distress and Performance of Tunisian Firms » (in french), les Annales d’Economie et de Gestion, College of Economics and Business of Tunis, March, 1999, N° 12, pp. 10-35.
14. Ridha Shabou, (1996) «Ownership Structure and Firms Financial Performance : A Simultaneous Equations Approach », les Annales d’Economie et de Gestion, College of Economics and Business of Tunis, March , N° 6, pp. 177-216.
15. Ridha Shabou, (1995) « The Capital Structure of Tunisian’s Firms : A Simultaneous Equations Approach » (in French), Finance, vol 16, N° 2. pp. 49-73.
16. Ridha Shabou, (1995), «Ownership Structure, Agency Relationship and Firms Leverage» (in French) les Annales d’Economie et de Gestion, College of Economics and Business of Tunis, March, N° 4, pp. 75-110.
CURRENT RESEARCH
1. Ridha Shabou, (2015), “Financial theory and financial strategy”, with Ghada Almunajem, Mohammad Almutairi and Hesah Jarboa.
2. Ridha Shabou, (2015), “Agency theory as a framework for the Government- Private Sector relationship: The case of Saudi Labor Market”, with Abdullah Alqahtani
REFERRED PROCEEDINGS
Full paper
1. Ridha Shabou, (2009), “Crisis Propagation and Governance”, 30th Congress of French Association of Accounting”, Strasbourg School of Management (France) from May 27 to 29, 2009
2. Ridha Shabou, (2009), “Crisis Propagation and Quality of Accounting Informations ”, 5th International Finance Conference, March 13 -14, Hammamet, Tunisia.
3., Ridha Shabou, (2005), « Why Do International Active Banks Smooth their results?» (in French), Annual Meeting of the “Association Tunisienne des Sciences de Gestion”, TABARKA,from 8 to 10 March 2005.(See Also the Annual Report Activity of the University of Geneve, 2005). With Pascal Dumontier Neila Boulila
4. Ridha Shabou (2005), “Does Manager’s Entrenchment leads to Firms Bankruptcy », ( in French) CGA Accounting Research Center, 2005, University of Ottawa. With Daniel Zeghal
5. Ridha Shabou, (2001), “Degree and Nature of Ownership Concentration and Corporate Borrowing: The Tunisian case” 18th Days of Applied Micro-economic. Juin 7 -8 University of Nancy, France.
6. Ridha Shabou and Mohamed Djarraya, (1986) « The Analysis of The Tunisian Financial Market With reference to The Capital Asset Pricing Model » (in French), Working Paper, Business Department, College of Economics and Business of Sfax.
7. Ridha Shabou and Mohamed Djarraya, (1987) "Dividends and Stock Prices: the Functional Form of Empirical Relations", Working Paper, Business Department, College of Economics and Business of Sfax.
SERVICE
Service to the University
College assignments:
2010. Contribution to the achievement of the PhD Programs, CBA-KSU
2009. Contribution to the achievement of the M.S.F Programs, CBA-KSU
2008. Contribution to the achievement of the Bachelor Programs, CBA-KSU
2008. Contribution to the achievement of the Bachelor Programs, CBA-El Kharj University
Chair:
2007-2009: President of the Exams Committee, CBA-KSU
Member:
2011 to present: Member of the Council of Graduate Programs in Business (CGPB)
2010 to present: Member of the PhD committee (CBA-KSU)
2010: Member of the academic advising committee, CBA-KSU
2008. Member of the disciplinary committee, CBA-KSU
2002. Member in the National Committee for Recruitment of Assistant Professor in Tunisia
Service to the community
1999-present: Reviewer in many national and international academic journals
1999-present: Reviewer in Deanship Scientific Research of many Saudi Universities
1999-present: Training Activities
1999-present: University workshops
HONORS AND AWARDS
Award of “Best Professor in Financial Management” offered by the World Education Congress, 2011