RAMIREZ Carlos
Department : Accounting and Management Control
Professor
Campus de Cergy
Contact
- email : ramirez@essec.edu
- tél : +33 (0)1 34 43 96 78
Diplomas
- 2014 : Habilitation to supervise doctoral students (HDR) (IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School, France)
- 2005 : PhD in Sociology (with first-class honours) (EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France)
- 1995 : Agrégation in Social Sciences Ecole Normale Supérieure (France)
- 1990 : MSc in Management (HEC Paris, France)
Certificates
- 2008 : International Teachers Programme (Bocconi University, Italy)
Career
- 2016 - Present : Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
- 2014 - 2016 : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
- 2008 - 2013 : Associate Professor at the department of Accounting and Management Control (HEC Paris, France)
- 2002 - 2008 : Assistant Professor at the department of Accounting and Management Control (HEC Paris, France)
- 1997 - 2002 : Research Officer (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Trustees Research Program) at the Department of Accounting and Finance (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom)
- 2009 : Visiting scholar (University of Hitotsubashi, Japan)
- 2009 : Visiting scholar (University of Sydney Business School, Australia)
- 2020 - 2023 : Academic director IMHI (ESSEC Business School, France)
- 2019 - 2022 : Co-Head of the Accounting and Management Control Department (ESSEC Business School, France)
Full-time academic appointments
Other Academic Appointments
Grants
- 2012 - 2014 : Research Grant (Foundation HEC, France)
Awards
- 2009 : Association Francophone de Comptabilité Best Paper Award in 2009 for “Aux sources de la théorie positive : Contribution à une analyse institutionnelle des changements de paradigmes dans la recherche comptable”
- 2007 : Nominated for the best teacher of the year at HEC Paris – Pierre Vernimmen Teaching Award (HEC Paris, France)
Journal articles
- RAMIREZ, C., STRINGFELLOW, L. and MACLEAN, M. (2015). Beyond Segments in Movement: A 'Small' Agenda for Research in the Professions. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 28(8), pp. 1341-1372.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2013). We are Being Pilloried for Something We did not Even Know We Had Done Wrong!” Quality Control and Orders of Worth in The British Audit Profession. Journal of Management Studies, 50(5), pp. 845-869.
- RAMIREZ, C., GOLSORKHI, D., LECA, B. and LOUNSBURY, M. (2009). Analysing, Accounting for and Unmasking Domination: On Our Role as Scholars of Practice, Practitioners of Social Science and Public Intellectuals. Organization, 16(6), pp. 779-797.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2009). Back to the Origins of Positive Theories: A Contribution to an Analysis of Paradigm Changes in Accounting Research. Accounting in Europe, 6(1), pp. 107-126.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2009). Constructing the governable small practitioner: the changing nature of professional bodies and the management of professional accountants' identities in the UK. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34(43924), pp. 381-408.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2009). Reform or rebirth? The 1966 Companies Act and the problem of the modernisation of the audit profession in France. Accounting History Review (formerly Accounting, Business and Financial History), 19(2), pp. 127-148.
- RAMIREZ, C. and JEANJEAN, T. (2008). Aux sources de la théorie positive : Contribution à une analyse institutionnelle des changements de paradigmes dans la recherche comptable. Comptabilité, Contrôle, Audit, 14(2), pp. 5-26.
- RAMIREZ, C. and CHIAPELLO, E. (2004). La sociologie de la comptabilité : une introduction. Comptabilité, Contrôle, Audit, 10(numéro spécial), pp. 3-5.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2003). Du commissariat aux comptes à l'audit - Les Big 4 et la profession comptable depuis 1970. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, (146-147), pp. 62-79.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2001). Understanding social closure in its cultural context: accounting practitioners in France (1920 - 1939). Accounting, Organizations and Society, 26(43955), pp. 391-418.
Book chapters
- POULLAOS, C. and RAMIREZ, C. (2020). Professionalisation. In: John Richard Edwards, Stephen P. Walker eds. The Routledge Companion to Accounting History. 2nd ed. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, pp. 279-306.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2013). Normalisation des services marchands ou marchandisation des normes ? Les Big 4 et la normalisation internationale de la comptabilité et de l’audit. In: Services sans frontières. Mondialisation, normalisation et régulation de l'économie des services. 1st ed. Paris: SciencesPo. Les Presses, pp. 223-252.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2012). How Big Four audit firms control standard setting in accounting and auditing. In: Finance: The Discreet Regulator: How Financial Activities Shape and Transform the World. 1st ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 40-59.
- RAMIREZ, C. and LABARDIN, P. (2012). Les histoires de la profession comptable en France. In: Comptabilité, Société, Politique. Mélanges en l’honneur du Professeur Bernard Colasse. 1st ed. Paris: Economica, pp. 268-284.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2010). Promoting transnational professionalism: Forays of the “Big Firm” accounting community into France. In: Transnational communities. Shaping Global Economic Governance. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 174-196.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2009). L’audit : critique d’une pratique critique. In: Les études critiques en management. Une perspective française. 1st ed. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, pp. 261-280.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2009). La règle et la norme : des grands cabinets d’audit multinationaux et de la place qu’ils occupent dans la profession comptable libérale. In: Sociologie des groupes professionnels. 1st ed. Paris: La Découverte, pp. 129-139.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2009). Sociologie de la comptabilité. In: Encyclopédie de comptabilité, audit et contrôle de gestion. 1st ed. Paris: Economica, pp. 1269-1277.
HDR
Presentations at an Academic or Professional conference
- ZICARI, A. and RAMIREZ, C. (2019). Al fin de cuentas, qué es un balance social? In: 12th Spanish Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) 2019.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2019). Collective Action and Intra-Professional Segmentation: The Case of the French Accountancy Profession (1942-2000). In: 31st Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Meeting.
- RAMIREZ, C. and DI FABIO, C. (2018). Cui Bono: A Bourdieusian Perspective on the European Accounting Field. In: 2018 Annual conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
- RAMIREZ, C., GARNIER, C. and STENGER, S. (2017). The Audit Court Society: Applying an Eliasian Theoretical Framework to the Analysis of the Up-Or-Out System in Audit Firms. In: 40th European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Congress.
- RAMIREZ, C., STENGER, S. and GARNIER, C. (2016). The Audit Court Society: Applying an Eliasian Theoretical Framework to the Analysis of the Up-Or-Out System in Audit Firms. In: 32nd European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2016.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2015). The SMA New Avenues for Research on Professional Categorization. In: IPA Conference 2015.
- RAMIREZ, C., STRINGFELLOW, L. and MACLEAN, M. (2015). The Small Practitioner: There is No Such Beast ! New Avenues for Research on Professional Organization. In: 36ème Congrès de l'Association Francophone de Comptabilité (AFC) 2015.
- RAMIREZ, C., STRINGFELLOW, L. and MACLEAN, M. (2015). There Is No Such Beast! New Avenues for Research on Professional Categorization. In: 31st European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2015.
- RAMIREZ, C. (2014). Repertoires of collective Action and Intra-Professional Segmentation in the French Accountancy Profession (1942-2000). In: 35ème Congrès de l'Association Francophone de Comptabilité (AFC) 2014.
Services
- 2009 - 2013 : Member of the Research Committee, HEC Paris, France
- 2010 - 2012 : Head of the department of Accounting and Management Control, HEC Paris, France
- 2008 - 2010 : Member of the Pedagogy committee, HEC Paris, France
Research activities
- 2014 - 2021 : Editorial board membership - Critical Perspectives on Accounting
- 2014 - 2019 : Editorial board membership - European Accounting Review
- Reviewer for Accounting and Business Research; Accounting Auditing Control; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Contemporary Accounting Research; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; European Accounting Review; Human Relations; Journal of Management Studies; Journal of Organizational Behavior; Organization; Organization Studies
- 2012 - 2014 : Member of the audit committee of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy
- 2011 - 2014 : Member of the scientific committee of the European Accounting Association congress
