Ioana LUPU

Associate Professor
department: Accounting and Management Control 
Campus de Cergy
+33 (0) 1 34 43 98 22
Management Control – Business Ethics & Business Philosophy
Biography

Prior to joining ESSEC, Dr Ioana Lupu was a Lecturer in Management Control at Queen Mary University London and a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at Cass Business School, Centre for the Study of Professional Service Firms working on an EU funded project. She is the author of a book based on her PhD dissertation: “Carrières de femmes. Identité, socialisation et vie familiale dans les cabinets d’audit et d’expertise“ [Women’s careers. Identiy, Socialization and family life in the accounting firms], Vuibert Editions, Paris (2014).

Her work received commendations such as: Faculty Transnational Research Best Conference Paper Award, Best Conference Paper Based on a Dissertation Award, and Best Paper by a Transnational Student Award (Academy of Management, 2012, 2013). Ioana's papers are published in Organization Science, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Harvard Business Review, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.

Currently, Ioana is working on projects exploring control, identity, temporal experiences, body and compulsive behaviours in knowledge-intensive firms (audit and law firms). More recently, she examines mental health and well-being at work in the context of digital transformation and data-driven performance management.

Ioana is interested in supervising PhD students on the above-mentioned research themes.

Diplomas

  • 2014: Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) (Cass Business School United Kingdom)
  • 2011: Ph.D. in Management Control (Conservatoire National des Arts & Métiers (CNAM) France)
  • 2003: MSc in Decision and Management Control (Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti Romania)
Career
Other Academic Appointments
    • 2021 – Now : Track Head (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2021 – Now : Track Head (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2021 – Now : Track Head Cima track (ESSEC Business School France)
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2017 – Now : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2016 – 2017 : Lecturer in Management Control (Université Queen Mary United Kingdom)
    • 2012 – 2014 : Assistant Professor (Neoma Business School France)
Other appointments
    • 2014 – 2016 : Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship (Cass Business School United Kingdom)

Awards

  • 2019 : Kanter Nominee for the year 2019 for her article “When the past comes back to haunt you: The enduring influence of upbringing on the work–family decisions of professional parents” which was selected as a nominee of the annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research
  • 2018 : Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Business & Management, Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Research on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (CRED). (Université Queen Mary, United Kingdom)
  • 2016 : Mary Parker Follett Award Outstanding Paper 2015, Emerald Publishing.
  • 2013 : “Faculty Transnational Research Best Conference Paper Award”, Gender, Diversity and Organization Division (GDO), 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) Conference, Orlando, USA. (Academy of Management)
  • 2013 : “William H. Newman Award Nominee”, for best paper based on a dissertation, 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM) Conference, Orlando, USA. (Academy of Management)
  • 2012 : Ph.D. dissertation publication award (Fondation Nationale pour l’Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises (FNEGE), France)
  • 2012 : Best Conference Paper Based on a Dissertation Award”, Sage Publications , AOM Conference, Boston, USA. (Sage Publications)
  • 2012 : “Best Paper by a Transnational Student Award”, AOM Conference, Boston, USA. (Academy of Management)

Grants

  • 2014 : Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship (2 years), € 232,000. (Commission européenne, Belgium)
  • 2010 : AFC mobility grant (Association Francophone de Comptabilité, France)
  • 2006 : Doctoral scholarship granted by the United Nations Development Program and the Romanian Government (two years), € 20,000 (Romania)

Journal articles

Presentations at an Academic or Professional conference

Management

  • 2021 – Now : Identity in HR and OB (ESSEC Business School France)

Accounting and Management Control 

  • 2019 – Now : Audit and Regulation (ESSEC Business School France)
Research activities
  • Editorial Board Membership
    • 2024 – 2027: Editorial Board Member: European Accounting Review
    • 2021 – Now: Editorial board member: Critical Perspectives on Accounting
    • 2021 – Now: Editorial advisory board member: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal