Research

Within ESSEC, our department aims to create knowledge through innovative, high-quality, interdisciplinary research that addresses the many societal and environmental challenges of the world today. The research we produce is characterized by a high degree of engagement with its end-users in the public, private and non-profit sectors.

The professors of the department also have editorial responsibilities, serving on the editorial boards of many international academic journals.

Many of their research papers have been published in journals such as: Academy of Management Journal; Accounting, Organizations & Society; Organization Science; Contemporary Accounting Research; Management Accounting Research, etc.

The research seminars organized by ESSEC's Accounting and Management Control department attract leading researchers from Europe, North America, Asia and elsewhere. In addition to regular research seminars, the department welcomes a distinguished guest every year. This researcher spends several days talking to faculty members and leading workshops and conferences.

Discover our research seminars

Education

Our Department offers students an introduction to Accounting and Management Control methods. It equips students with the keys for understanding how to implement these methods in a variety of contexts – strategic decision making and financial management or communication – and diverse environments – large and small companies, start-ups in the private, public and non-profit sectors.

The Accounting and Management Control Department also offers interdisciplinary courses that provide an overview of the organizational and behavioral dimension of management tools. These courses also cover human resources management, organizational change, CSR/ SRI and ERPs.

Our tracks:

CFO Track (Consulting, Finance and Organization)

Chartered Institute of Management Control Track (CIMA)

Management and Society

PhD Program

Accounting and auditing concentration

The ESSEC PhD program in Accounting and Auditing (A&A) is devoted to training doctoral candidates to conduct research at the highest level on questions dealing with the role of accounting information in an ever-changing economic environment. It is aimed at providing the necessary intellectual equipment to conduct scholarly research on a variety of accounting and auditing issues. 

Management Control concentration

Students in Management Control will be supervised by faculty from the Management Control (MC) group, which is part of the Accounting and Management Control (A&MC) department.

Management control tools such as budgets, key performance indicators and timesheets, practices such as performance assessment, promotion, and remuneration, and culture represent key organizational control mechanisms.

Our group is committed to the creation of knowledge through original, high-quality and interdisciplinary research, which tackles many of today’s societal challenges. Our team conducts interdisciplinary research, publishing in prestigious journals in Accounting as well as Management: Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal etc.

In today’s world where phenomena are very complex, being able to draw on interdisciplinary perspectives to build a research project and to publish it, it is a strong asset. Thus, our team has also been successful in attracting external funding for its projects from the European Union (Marie-Curie IEF Fellowship, Eutopia); Eutopia CY, as well the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR).

Because we care about research with impact, our research is published or featured in practitioner-oriented or wider public outlets such as: Harvard Business Review, The Economist, Psychology Today, Le Monde.

More information on the MC group and its faculty members