Veronica CASARIN

Associate Professor
department: Accounting and Management Control 
Campus de Cergy
+33 (0) 1 34 43 98 21
Management Control
Career
Biography

Veronica Casarin is Associate Professor of Accounting and Management Control. Her current research focuses on the role of management control in innovation networks and digital platforms in the pharmaceutical R&D and aviation sectors. She also investigates the ethical aspects of management control system design. Her work has been published in top journals, such as Accounting, Organizations and Society and Journal of Business Ethics. Veronica teaches courses on management control in several ESSEC programs. She is a course co-coordinator for bachelor-level courses and is a member of the Global Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) pedagogical committee. Prior to joining ESSEC, Veronica was a post-doctoral researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She earned her PhD in Business Studies from Cardiff University and her MPhil in Accounting from the London School of Economics.

Diplomas

  • 2016: Ph.D. in Business studies: accounting & finance (Cardiff Business School United Kingdom)
  • 2011: M. Phil. In Accounting (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom)
Career
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2024 – Now : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2017 – 2024 : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
Distinctions
Research

Presentations at an Academic or Professional conference

Teaching

Management

  • 2023 – Now : Disciplinary Foundations of Management I (ESSEC Business School France)

Accounting and Management Control 

  • 2022 – Now : Fundamental Readings and Theories of Management Control (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2022 – Now : Qualitative Research Methods in Interdisciplinary Accounting and Management Control (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2021 – Now : Strategic Cost Management (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2021 – Now : Valuation, Control and Organization (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2020 – Now : Performance Management and Business Model Innovation in the Digital Era (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2020 – Now : Strategic Cost Management (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2019 – Now : Refresher in Accounting (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2017 – Now : Strategic Management Control (ESSEC Business School France)
Other activities
Research activities
  • Other academic activity
    • 2023 – 2023: Panelist at the roundtable “Research on Innovation: Opportunities and Pathways to Collaboration” – ESSEC Research Day
  • Organization of a conference or a seminar
    • 2023 – 2023: Organizer of the distinguished guest program in management control – Distinguished guest: prof. David Stark (Columbia University)
    • 2022 – 2022: Organizer of the distinguished guest program in management control – Distinguished guest: prof. Marc Wouters (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
    • 2022 – 2022: Co-organizer of the 10th HEC – ESSEC joint research workshop
    • 2020 – 2020: Co-organizer of the 8th HEC – ESSEC joint research workshop
    • 2019 – 2023: Co-organizer of the research seminar series at the department of accounting and management control
Services
    • 2022 – Now: Member of the BBA pedagogical committee