Caroline LAMBERT
HEC Paris Born on 11/25/1974
1, rue de la Liberation Married, one child
78351 Jouy en Josas Cedex French nationality
FRANCE
e-mail: lambert@hec.fr
EDUCATION &DEGREES
2005 Ph.D. in Management Accounting, UNIVERSITE PARIS DAUPHINE
1998-1999 Master of Research in Accounting, UNIVERSITE PARIS DAUPHINE
Obtained with honors
1994-1998 ESCP EUROPE (PARIS,FRANCE)
Graduate Business & Management with specialization in Finance
1997 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DUBLIN
Semester in Master of Business Studies ACADEMIC POSITIONS &TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2004- HECPARIS,Accounting and Management Control Department (PARIS,FRANCE) Assistant Professor
Main courses taught: Management Accounting” and “Management Control and Advanced Management Accounting” (Master of Science Program), Basics of Management Accounting (MBA Program), , Management Accounting (Executive Education), Management Control Systems (Ph.D.)
International experience: Management Accounting (Joint MBA Program with Academy of International Business, Almaty, Kazakhstan), Intermediate
Management Accounting (Schulich School of Business, Toronto, Canada)
2000-2004 UNIVERSITE PARIS DAUPHINE (PARIS,FRANCE) Lecturer in Management Accounting (320 hours) Master of Science and MBA programs
1999-2004 ESCPEUROPE (PARIS,FRANCE)
Lecturer in Finance and Management Accounting (320 hours) Master of Science and Executive programs
VISITINGS
Oct-Dec 2006 LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (LONDON, UK) Accounting & Finance department
Visiting Research Student
Feb-May 2006 SCHULICH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (YORK UNIVERSITY,CANADA) Accounting department
Visiting professor
Sept.-Oct 2001 SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT (M.I.T, BOSTON,MA,USA)
Visiting Student
HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
2008 BEST PAPER PROCEEDING –ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT MEETING (Anaheim, CA, USA) (with C. Dambrin)
2006 BEST PAPER AWARD –COMPTABILITE CONTROLE AUDIT (with C. Dambrin)
2006 BEST THESIS AWARD (Francophone Accounting Association & FNEGE (Fondation Nationale pour l’Enseignement de Gestion))
Selected in the top ten of 2006 EDAMBA Doctoral Thesis Competition
2005 CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING - Emerging Scholar Program Fellow, (New York, USA)
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2003 INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING –Young Scholars Colloquium Fellow (Madrid, Spain)
2002 EUROPEAN GROUP FOR ORGANISATION STUDIES (EGOS) – Doctoral Colloquium Fellow (Barcelona, Spain)
2001 EDEN – EIASM (Brussels, Belgium)
One-week doctoral seminar in management accounting.
2000 CEFAG –FNEGE (France)
Three-week intensive training to methodology and epistemology for selected doctoral students.
GRANTS
2008 Research grant from the HEC FOUNDATION (€38 000) with Carlos Ramirez &
Claire Dambrin.
2008 Research grant from ASSOCIATION NATIONALE POUR LA RECHERCHE (€19 000) (French National Association for Research) with Carlos Ramirez & Claire Dambrin 2000-2003 Doctoral Grant from UNIVERSITE PARIS DAUPHINE – (€50 000)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
− Work and identity of management accountants
− Work and identity of public accountants
− Gender issues
− Management control systems
PUBLICATIONS
-ACCEPTED ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC JOURNALS
2010 “Pratiques budgétaires, rôles et critiques du budget. Perception des DAF et des contrôleurs de gestion”, Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit, co-written with S. Sponem, vol.16, n°1, pp. 159-194
2009 “La fonction contrôle de gestion : proposition d’une typologie”, Comptabilité- Contrôle-Audit, co-written with S. Sponem, vol.15, n°2, pp.113-144
"Les pratiques occultes des contrôleurs de gestion. Une étude ethnographique du
“sale boulot”", Finance Contrôle Stratégie, co-written with J. Morales, vol.12, n°2, pp. 5-34
2008 “Mothering or Auditing? The Case of Two Big Four in France”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol.21, n°4, pp.474-506, co-written with C.
Dambrin
2007 “Control and Change. Analysing the Process of Institutionalisation”, Management Accounting Research, vol. 18, issue 2, pp.172-208, co-written with C. Dambrin and S. Sponem
« Discipliner les autres et agir sur soi. La double vie du contrôleur de gestion », Finance-Contrôle- Stratégie, vol.10, n°1, pp.183-208, co-written with E. Pezet
2006 “Le deuxième sexe dans la profession comptable. Réflexions théoriques et méthodologiques. ”, Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit, vol. 12, n°2, pp.101-138, co- written with C. Dambrin. 2006 Best article award.
2005 “Corporate Governance and Profit Manipulation: A French Field Study”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol.16, n°6, pp.717-748, co-written with Samuel Sponem
- CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIVE BOOKS
2010 « Le contrôleur de gestion et son manager », in N.Berland and Y.de Rongé (Eds), Contrôle de gestion, Perspectives stratégiques et managériales, Pearson, Paris, pp.97-120
2009 « Pourquoi les femmes sont-elles si peu nombreuses au top management des entreprises ?», » co-written with C. Dambrin, in Pras B. (ed.), Management : tensions d’aujourd’hui, FNEGE, Vuibert, Paris, pp.273-281
“Femmes et comptabilité”, co-written with C. Dambrin, in Colasse B. (ed.), Encyclopédie de Comptabilité,contrôle de gestion et audit, Economica, Paris
2008 « Les salariés sont de plus en plus autonomes, c’est l’ère de l’empowerment ! » co- written with C. Dambrin, in Pezet A. & Sponem S. (eds.), Petit bréviaire des idées reçues en management, La Découverte, Paris pp. 120-128
« L’égalité hommes-femmes aux postes de direction n’est qu’une question de temps. » co-written with S. Belghiti-Mahut & C. Dambrin, in Pezet A. & Sponem S. (eds.), Petit bréviaire des idées reçues en management, La Découverte, Paris, pp. 238-247
2008 « L’État à l’heure de la gestion par objectifs. Quelles leçons tirer des pratiques des entreprises ? », co-written with S. Sponem, in B. Ramanantsoa (Ed.), L'Art du management - Performance - Développement Durable - Leadership, Village Mondial, Paris
2007 “Beauty or Not Beauty… Les techniques du souci de soi comme outils de contrôle dans une entreprise cosmétique” (co-written with C. Dambrin), in Pezet E.(ed.), Management et Conduite de Soi : Enquête sur les ascèses de la performance, Vuibert, Paris
- NON PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2007 « El « techo de cristal » en la profesión de contable : constataciones y explicaciones », Ejecutivos, diciembre, co-written with C. Dambrin
2006 « Le "plafond de verre" dans la profession comptable », Echanges, n°237, pp.52- 53, co-written with C. Dambrin
- WORKING PAPERS
2007 “Motherhood: The Key to the Glass Ceiling? The Case of the Big Four in France”, CR862/2007, HECPARIS, co-written with Claire Dambrin
“Be yourself or rather be your Brand!” Care of the Self as a Control Tool in a Cosmetics Firm, CR855/2007, HECPARIS, co-written with Claire Dambrin
2006 « Discipliner les autres et agir sur soi - Les vies du contrôleur de gestion », CR844/2006, HECPARIS, co-written with Eric Pezet
« La question du genre en comptabilité - Analyses théoriques et méthodologiques », CR843/2006, HECPARIS, co-written with Claire Dambrin
“Control and Change - Studying the Process of Institutionalisation”, CR842/2006, HECPARIS, co-written with Claire Dambrin and Samuel Sponem
2002 « Les femmes et la comptabilité : une revue des recherches », CREFIGE, UNIVERSITE PARIS DAUPHINE, co-written with Claire Dambrin
2001 « Revues anglo-saxonnes en comptabilité », CREFIGE, UNIVERSITE PARIS
DAUPHINE, co-written with Claire Dambrin WORK IN PROGRESS
- “REVISE AND RESUBMIT” PAPERS
“The making of the management accountant”
[4d round] Accounting, Organizations and Society, with E.Pezet
“From “dirty work” to “dirty dust”. An ethnographic study of the shadowy activities of management controllers”
[2nd round] Accounting, Organizations and Society, with J.Morales
The Roles of the Management Accounting Function [2nd round] European Accounting Review, with S. Sponem
“Diversité des pratiques de contrôle budgétaire : approches contingentes et néo-institutionnelles”
“Who is she and who are we? A critical essay on reflexivity in research into the rarity of women executives in accountancy”
[2nd round] Critical Perspectives on Accounting, with C. Dambrin - TO BE SUBMITTED PAPERS
“Be yourself or rather be your Brand!” Care of the Self as a Control Tool in a Cosmetics Firm With C. Dambrin
Time, R&D activities and the construction of the management accountant With M. Messner
Motherhood and copying selves in the accounting profession With C. Dambrin
PRESENTATIONS
- INVITED CONFERENCES
2009 LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (LONDON, UK) Event in the Honour of Anthony Hopwood, July 15
“Accounting for the future”.
HELSINSKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (HELSINSKI,FINLAND)
“Not-so-ordinary invitation”, May 12-15
2008 INNSBRUCK UNIVERSITY (INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA),
“Identity and Reflexivity in Research into the Scarcity of Women in Executive Positions in the Accounting Profession” with C. Dambrin, Jan 16
UNIVERSITE PARIS DAUPHINE (PARIS,FRANCE)
“From dirty work to dirty dust. An ethnographic study of the shadowy activities of management controllers ” with J.Morales
2007 UNIVERSITE PARIS DAUPHINE (PARIS,FRANCE)
“Just be your brand! The instrumentalisation of the subject in a cosmetics firm” with C.
Dambrin
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (LONDON, UK)
“Just be your brand! The instrumentalisation of the subject in a cosmetics firm” with C.
Dambrin
2006 LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (LONDON, UK)
“Motherhood: The Key to the Glass Ceiling? The Case of the Big Four in France” with C. Dambrin
SCHULICH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (YORK UNIVERSITY,CANADA)
“Control and change: an institutional perspective”, co-written with C. Dambrin & S.
Sponem
- PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS
2009 “From “dirty work” to “dirty dust”. An ethnographic study of the shadowy
activities of management controllers”, 8th IPA Congress – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting, (Innsbruck, Austria), co-written with J. Morales
“The Management Control Function: Proposing a Typology”, 32th E.A.A. Congress - European Accounting Association, (Tampere, Finland), co-written with S.Sponem
“From “dirty work” to “dirty dust”. An ethnographic study of the hidden activities of management controllers”, 4th Alternatives Perspectives on Accounting, (Québec City, Canada), co-written with J. Morales
2008 “From “dirty work” to “dirty dust”. An ethnographic study of visibility and invisibility created through accounting practices”, 6th Conference on New Directions on
Management Accounting, EIASM, (Brussels, Belgium), co-written with J. Morales
“Identity and Reflexivity in Research on Women Accountants”, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, (Anaheim, CA, USA), Best Paper Proceedings, co- written with C. Dambrin, 6 pages
“Just be your brand! The instrumentalisation of the subject in a cosmetics firm”, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, (Anaheim, CA, USA), co-written with C.
Dambrin, 38 pages
“Identity and Reflexivity in Research into the Scarcity of Women in Executive Positions in the Accounting Profession”, American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, (Anaheim, CA, USA), co-written with C. Dambrin, 39 pages
“La fonction contrôle de gestion : proposition d’une typologie”, 29th A.F.C.
Congress– Association Francophone de Comptabilité, (Cergy-Pontoise, France), co- written with S. Sponem, 40 pages
“Pratiques budgétaires. Proposition d’une typologie”, 29th A.F.C. Congress–
Association Francophone de Comptabilité, (Cergy-Pontoise, France), co-written with S. Sponem, 40 pages
“Du dirty work au dirty dust. Efforts de contrôleurs de gestion pour entrer dans le processus de décision”, 29th A.F.C. Congress– Association Francophone de Comptabilité, (Cergy-Pontoise, France), co-written with J.Morales, 40 pages
“Be yourself… or rather, be your brand! Making Up the Subject in a Cosmetics Firm”, What is an organization? Materiality, Agency, Discourse Conference, May 21-22, (Montreal, Canada), co-written with C. Dambrin, 38 pages
“From Dirty Work to Dirty Dust”, 2008 Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, (New York, USA), April, co-written with J. Morales, 40 pages
2007 “Be yourself… or rather, be your brand! Care of the self as a control tool in a cosmetics firm”, 23rd EGOS Colloquium– European Group for Organization Studies, (Vienna, Austria), juillet 2007 (co-written with C. Dambrin)
“Mothering or Auditing? The French Big 4’s Desperate Auditors”, 28th A.F.C.
Congress– Association Francophone de Comptabilité, (Poitiers, France), co-written with C. Dambrin
“Twenty Years of Gender Studies in Accounting - A Focus on the Glass Ceiling”, 30th E.A.A. Congress - European Accounting Association, avril 2007, (Lisboa, Portugal), (co-written with C. Dambrin)
2006 “The Business Partner: A Panacea”, 5th Conference on New Directions on Management Accounting, EIASM, (Brussels, Belgium)
“The Roles of the Management Control Function. Evidence from France”, Integrating Global Organizations. The Role of Performance Measurement Systems, (Siena, Italy)
“Motherhood: The Key to the Glass Ceiling? The Case of the Big Four in France”, Seventh IPA Congress – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting, (Cardiff, UK), co-written with C. Dambrin
“Be yourself… or rather, be your brand! Norms and the creation of enterprising selves in a cosmetic firm”, 22nd EGOS Colloquium– European Group for Organization Studies, (Bergen, Norway), co-written with C. Dambrin
“Le plafond de verre dans les cabinets d’audit – questions théoriques et méthodologiques”, 27th A.F.C. Congress– Association Francophone de Comptabilité, (Tunis, Tunisie), co-written with C. Dambrin
“Discipliner les autres et agir sur soi. La double vie du contrôleur de gestion”, 27th A.F.C. Congress– Association Francophone de Comptabilité, (Tunis, Tunisie), co- written with E. Pezet
2005 “Maintaining a Panopticon: Beyond Discipline, the Roles of Games of Truth”, ESRC/AFRU Seminar, Open University Business School, (Milton Keynes, UK), co- written with E. Pezet
“Control and change: an institutional perspective”, 28th E.A.A. Congress – European Accounting Association, (Göteborg, Sweden), co-written with C. Dambrin & S.
Sponem
« Contrôle et changement, une perspective néo-institutionnelle », 26th A.F.C.
Congress– Association Francophone de Comptabilité, (Lille, France), co-written with C. Dambrin & S. Sponem
“Control and change: an institutional perspective”, Critical Perspective on Accounting, (New York City, U.S.A), co-written with C. Dambrin & S. Sponem
“Control and change: a neo-institutional perspective”, Research Conference on the Changing Roles of Management Accounting as a Control System, MCA-ENROAC, (Antwerpen, Belgium), co-written with C. Dambrin & S. Sponem
2004 “Control and Change. An Institutional Perspective”, 4th Conference on New Directions on Management Accounting, EIASM, (Brussels, Belgium), co-written with C.Dambrin & S. Sponem
“When Controllers Take Control. The Case of an Automotive Parts Distributor that Became a Panopticon”, 27th E.A.A. Congress – European Accounting Association, (Praga, Czech Republic)
2003 “The French management controller’s job: when ambiguity leads to job crafting”, Sixth IPA Congress – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting, (Madrid, Spain)
“Gouvernance d’entreprise et gestion du résultat. Les contrôleurs de gestion de l’autre côté du miroir ”, 24th A.F.C Congress– Association Francophone de Comptabilité, (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium), co-written with S. Sponem.
“Management controllers’ implication in the earning management: A French Study”, 26th E.A.A. Congress – European Accounting Association, (Seville, Spain), co- written with S. Sponem
2002 “The management controller’s job: when ambiguity leads to job crafting”, 25th EAA Congress (Copenhaguen, Denmark)
2001 « Les frontières entre hommes et femmes dans le monde de la comptabilité : une revue des recherches », 22nd A.F.C. Congress, (Metz, France), co-written with C. Dambrin
« Comment les contrôleurs de gestion perçoivent-ils leur fonction ? Etude d’une fonction support », First forum on La Prospective des Métiers (Caen, France)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reviewer for:
Management Accounting Research Critical Perspectives on Accounting
Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit
Management International
2009 Member of Jérémy PhD Defense Committee at University Paris Dauphine
2008 Participation to the organizing committee of the Management Accounting as a Social Practice Workshop, held in HEC Paris
2007- Member of the Francophone Accounting Association Committee for the Best Thesis Award
Discussant at Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting (2003, 2006, 2009) ; European Accounting Association (2009), Association Francophone de Comptabilité (2006, 2008), Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2005, 2008), EGOS 2006.
Member of AAA – American Accounting Association., AOM – Academy of Management., AFC - Association Francophone de Comptabilité, EAA – European Accounting Association, EGOS – European Group for Organization Studies, MACORG and CRIM (Critique et Management).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
- EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
2004- Consulting missions for various firms such as ORANGE, BOUYGUES.
2001- 2003 PLUS CONSULTANTS. Consultant
18 months 200-hour training program for management controllers of the Postal Services on their Management Information Systems.
2000 ALTEDIA - Consultant
Training Carrefour top management for promoting employee share option plans - OTHER
April - Jul’98 ARTHUR ANDERSEN MANAGEMENT (BEARING POINT) Finance and Accounting Department
Conducting consulting missions within the department stores industry and the state-owned sector
Jan - Mar’98 L’ORÉAL –LANCÔME FRANCE -Sales Department
Financial modeling analysis, marketing, large accounts management
Feb - Jul’97 AUTOMOBILES PEUGEOT -Management Control Department Reporting
- Languages
French (Native), English (Fluent), Spanish (Fluent), Italian (Beginner)
