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Professor Elena Giovannoni

The Department of Accounting
Professor of Accounting
Head of the Department of Accounting

Contact details

Telephone: +44(0)121 415 58439
Email: e.giovannoni@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Business School
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Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Elena Giovannoni is Professor of Accounting at Birmingham Business School, Department of Accounting, where she is Head of the Department of Accounting.

Elena’s research bridges critical and historical perspectives in accounting and organization studies. She is interested in exploring the design and implementation of performance measurements and management control systems in different settings (recently, the space sector, the food industry, and knowledge-intensive organizations, and arts), ranging from global to medium-sized and small enterprises, particularly as they face the challenges coming from organizational change and sustainable development. Elena is also interested in exploring the multiplicity of calculative practices in relation to climate change and sustainability, also through temporal perspectives. Her research approaches draw on case-study methods, archival and other historical research methods and multimodal approaches.

She led a number of projects funded by international bodies and organizations, leading to publications in top academic journals as well as in professional journals.

She serves in the editorial boards of a number of international journals such as Accounting Forum, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Accounting History, Family Business Review and Organization Studies.

Qualifications

Professor of Accounting 2018
Higher Education Academy Fellowship 2017
PhD in Economia Aziendale (Business Administration/Accounting) 2004

Teaching

Management Accounting
Accounting, Management and Accountability
Advanced Management Accounting and Control (Singapore)

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Decker, S, Foster, WM & Giovannoni, E (eds) 2023, . Handbooks of Research Methods in Management Series, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Article

Giovannoni, E, Begkos, C, Mouritsen, J & Kornberger, M 2025, '', Organization Studies.

Decker, S, Giovannoni, E & Plakoyiannaki, E 2024, '', Management and Organizational History.

Busco, C, Giovannoni, E, Riccaboni, A & Frigo, M 2024, '', Management Accounting Research.

Gran脿, F, Achilli, G, Giovannoni, E & Busco, C 2024, '', Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 37, no. 5.

Giovannoni, E & Giorgino, MC 2023, '', Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 135-160.

Achilli, G, Busco, C, Giovannoni, E & Grana', F 2023, '', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 94, 102464.

Giovannoni, E & Napier, CJ 2023, '', Organization Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 401-425.

Achilli, G, Busco, C & Giovannoni, E 2022, '', Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 492-517.

Davison, J & Giovannoni, E 2022, '', Human Relations.

Busco, C, Frigo, M, Giovannoni, E, Pavlovic, A & Riccaboni, A 2022, '' Strategic Finance, no. November 2022, pp. 27-33.

Napier, CJ & Giovannoni, E 2020, '', The British Accounting Review.

Giovannoni, E & Siena, U 2018, '', The British Accounting Review, vol. 51, no. 2, 51(2), pp. 211.

Chapter

Giovannoni, E & Ruggiero, P 2023, . in S Decker, W Foster & E Giovannoni (eds), Handbook of Historical Methods for Management. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 344-360.

Decker, S, Foster, WM & Giovannoni, E 2023, in S Decker, WM Foster & E Giovannoni (eds), Handbook of Historical Methods for Management. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 1-15.