Ioana Lupu

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 how the COVID-19 pandemic shapes workplaces, specifically in the areas of digital transformation and data-driven performance management.

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

Education

• CNU 06 Sciences de Gestion Qualification aux fonctions de Maître de Conférences (2012 — 2012)
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (2007 — 2011)
• Visiting research student Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd (2010 — 2010)
• Visiting student Birmingham University (2009 — 2009)

Companies

• Associate Professor ESSEC Business School (2017)
• Lecturer in Management Control Queen Mary University of London (2016 — 2017)
• Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow Cass Business School (2014 — 2016)
• Assistant Professor in Management Control NEOMA (ex Rouen) Business School (2012 — 2014)
• Assistant Professor in Financial and Management Accounting Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France (2009 — 2012)
• Temporary lecturer (vacataire) in Management Accounting Telecom Ecole de Management (2011 — 2011)
• Graduate teaching assistant INSEAD (2010 — 2011)
• Manager and owner Café "Hello Mo" (2003 — 2005)

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). (Queen Mary University of London. School of Economics and Finance, United Kingdom)
• 2016 : Mary Parker Follett Award Outstanding Paper 2015, Emerald Publishing.
• 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)
• 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)
• 2012 : Best Conference Paper Based on a Dissertation Award”, Sage Publications , AOM Conference, Boston, USA. (Sage Publications)
• 2012 : Ph.D. dissertation publication award (Fondation Nationale pour l'Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises (FNEGE), France)
• 2012 : “Best Paper by a Transnational Student Award”, AOM Conference, Boston, USA. (Academy of Management)

Journal articles

• LUPU, I. and RUIZ-CASTRO, M. (2021). Work-Life Balance Is a Cycle, Not an Achievement. Harvard Business Review, Digital.
• LUPU, I. and ROKKA, J. (2021). ‘Feeling in Control’: Optimal Busyness and the Temporality of Organizational Controls. Organization Science, In press.
• LUPU, I. (2021). An autoethnography of pregnancy and birth during Covid times: Transcending the illusio of overwork in academia? Gender, Work and Organization, In press.
• RUSSO, M. and LUPU, I. (2021). Why Young Professionals Should Prioritize Rest Over Work. Harvard Business Review, online.
• LUPU, I., RUIZ-CASTRO, M. and LECA, B. (2020). Role Distancing and the Persistence of Long Work Hours in Professional Service Firms. Organization Studies, In press.
• LUPU, I., SPENCE, C. and EMPSON, L. (2018). When the Past Comes Back to Haunt You: The Enduring Influence of Upbringing on the Work–Family Decisions of Professional parents. Human Relations, 71(2), pp. 155-181.
• LUPU, I. (2017). Your Feelings About Work-Life Balance Are Shaped by What You Saw Your Parents Do. Harvard Business Review, Digital.
• LUPU, I. and SANDU, R. (2017). Intertextuality in corporate narratives: a discursive analysis of a contested privatization. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 30(3), pp. 53-564.
• LE THEULE, M.A. and LUPU, I. (2016). Publishing without Editors or Authors? Competing Logics, Circulation, and Cultural Creation in a Publishing Firm. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 38(July), pp. 14-33.
• LUPU, I. and EMPSON, L. (2015). Illusio and overwork: Playing the game in the accounting field. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 28(8), pp. 1310-1340.
• LUPU, I. (2012). Approved routes and alternative paths: the construction of women’s careers in large accounting firms. Evidence from the French Big Four. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 23(4-5), pp. 351-369.
• LUPU, I. and SANDU, R. (2008). Beyond the balance sheet: Intellectual Capital disclosure in transition economies. A Case Study from the Oil Industry. Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems (JAMIS), 24, pp. 88-100.
• LUPU, I., SANDU, R. and BOGDAN, A. (2007). Les rapports narratifs du management, sont-ils équilibrés ? Etude de cas sur la reconnaissance du capital intellectuel dans les rapports annuels”, Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, no. 20, pp. 98-111, (with Bogdan, A. & Sandu, R.). Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems (JAMIS), 20.

Books

• LUPU, I. (2014). Carrières de femmes. Identité, socialisation et vie familiale dans les cabinets d’audit et d’expertise. Vuibert.