LESCOAT Pierre
PhD, Management, Management Control
Accounting, Control & Legal Affairs
PhD, Management, Management Control
Pierre is an Assistant Professor at NEOMA Business School. He holds a PhD from Sorbonne University and ESCP Europe, an M.A. in Management and Organizational Dynamics from Paris X University, and an M.Sc. from HEC Paris. His PhD was awarded the 2019 best interdisciplinary thesis award from the National Foundation for Management Research and Teaching .
His research primarily focuses on two key sectors: the financial industry and the film industry. His work is interdisciplinary, drawing on economic sociology, gender studies, and cultural sociology, with a strong emphasis on qualitative methodologies.
Pierre actively collaborates on research projects with various organizations and is also involved in the ODILE project, funded by the French National Research Agency, in partnership with the University of Paris-Saclay and ISG Paris.
Before transitioning to academia, he held various positions in the media and telecommunications industries. His research has been published in New Technology, Work and Employment, Gender, Work and Organization, and by Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
Areas of research
- Sociology of accounting
- Sociology of finance
- Gender studies
- action-research
- market intermediaries
- film industry
- economic sociology
- cultural sociology
- critical management studies
Recent academic contributions
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CORON, C., I. SCHEIBMAYR, P. LESCOAT, "How to do HRM with numbers? A performative lens on HR metrics, HR analytics and HR algorithms", New Technology, Work and Employment, July 2024, pp. 1-24
DOI : 10.1111/ntwe.12306 -
LESCOAT, P., "Queering the pandemic at work, a fictocritical tale", Gender, Work and Organization, May 2023, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 1037-1041
DOI : 10.1111/gwao.12942 - DE BECDELIÈVRE, P., A. LAURENT, P. LESCOAT, "L'entrée dans la carrière académique" in L'expérience de la thèse en management., Hugo Gaillard, Julien Cloarec, Juliette Senn, Albane Grandazzi Eds, EMS - Editions Management et Société, pp. 383-403, 2023
Article
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CORON, C., I. SCHEIBMAYR, P. LESCOAT, "How to do HRM with numbers? A performative lens on HR metrics, HR analytics and HR algorithms", New Technology, Work and Employment, July 2024, pp. 1-24
DOI : 10.1111/ntwe.12306 -
LESCOAT, P., "Queering the pandemic at work, a fictocritical tale", Gender, Work and Organization, May 2023, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 1037-1041
DOI : 10.1111/gwao.12942 -
LESCOAT, P., "Nobody likes a whistleblower. Witnessing silenced racism and homophobia at work..", Gender, Work and Organization, September 2021, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1893-1897
DOI : 10.1111/gwao.12717
Book chapter
- DE BECDELIÈVRE, P., A. LAURENT, P. LESCOAT, "L'entrée dans la carrière académique" in L'expérience de la thèse en management., Hugo Gaillard, Julien Cloarec, Juliette Senn, Albane Grandazzi Eds, EMS - Editions Management et Société, pp. 383-403, 2023
- LESCOAT, P., C.DAMBRIN, "Dé-neutraliser l’évaluation de la performance : Les illusions de l’« objectivité » et de la « méritocratie » en salles de marché" in Quantifier l'égalité au travail., Soline Blanchard et Sophie Pochic Ed., Presses Uiversitaires de Rennes, 2021
Academic conferences
- LESCOAT, P., C. CHEMIN-BOUZIR, "What we can learn from practitionners" in International Critical Management Studies conference, 2023, Notthingam, United Kingdom
- LESCOAT, P., P. DEBECDELIEVRE, "Sustainable careers and performance evaluation systems: the example of investment bankers" in 32è congrès de l'AGRH, 2021
- LESCOAT, P., "From expert valuation to the evaluation of expertise: the organizational embeddedness of sell-side analysts’ performance." in 39th AFC Conference (French Accounting Association), 2018, Nantes
- LESCOAT, P., C.DAMBRIN, "A masculine hegemony of performance? Gender representations and performance management tools among financial markets professionals" in 29th AGRH Conference (French Human Resource Association), 2018, Lyon
- LESCOAT, P., C.DAMBRIN, "A masculine hegemony of performance? Gender representations and performance management tools among financial markets professionals" in Critical Finance Studies conference, 2017, Leicester, United Kingdom
- STENGER, S., P. LESCOAT, "Truth or dare? Sexual orientation, stigma and masculine professions: coming out as a professional of the financial services industry" in Gender, Work and Organization Conference, 2016, Keele, United Kingdom
- LESCOAT, P., C. DAMBRIN, "A masculine hegemony of performance? Gender representations and performance management tools among financial markets professionals" in Gender, Work and Organization Conference, 2016, Keele, United Kingdom
Participation at an academic or professional conference
- LESCOAT, P., "Skepticism and accounting, a Cavellian approach to "what accounting is"" in What accounting Is Conference, 2020, Online (Covid), United Kingdom
- LESCOAT, P., "Gendering financial markets, gendering performance. A study of performance practices and representations on the trading floor" Atelier d'écriture - Neoma Business School. 2019, Paris, France
- LESCOAT, P., C.DAMBRIN, "A fair evaluation? The “de-neutralizing” of performance indicators in the banking sector" Warwick Business School research seminar. 2018, Coventry, United Kingdom
- LESCOAT, P., C.DAMBRIN, "A masculine hegemony of performance? Gender representations and performance management tools among financial markets professionals" Leicester Business School research seminar. 2018, Leicester, United Kingdom
- LESCOAT, P., C.DAMBRIN, "A fair evaluation? The “de-neutralizing” of performance indicators in the banking sector" in Management Control Doctoral Workshop Dauphine University, 2017, Paris, France
- LESCOAT, P., "Accounting and performance: social representations and management devices among sell-side analysts and exotic traders" Social Studies of Finance workshop. 2017, Paris, France
- LESCOAT, P., "Accounting and the marketization of performance" in 32nd emerging scholars’ colloquium, European Accounting Association, 2016, Maastricht, Netherlands
- LESCOAT, P., "Accounting and the marketization of performance" in 8th doctoral colloquium, Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference, 2016, Melbourne, Australia
- LESCOAT, P., "To evaluate or discriminate? Measuring the diversity of performances within an exclusive space: the trading room" in AGRH (French Human Resource Management Association) Doctoral Colloquium, 2015, Montpellier, France
Professional journals
- LESCOAT, P., P. DE BECDELIÈVRE, "Faire carrière dans la finance : eldorado ou prison dorée ?", The Conversation, January 2024
- LESCOAT, P., P. DE BECDELIÈVRE, "Faire carrière dans la finance : eldorado ou prison dorée ? Les Echos Start", Les Echos, January 2024
- SUQUET, J.-B., A. ROUQUET, P. LESCOAT, "Redynamiser les centres-villes par le commerce, c’est possible !", The Conversation, June 2024
- LESCOAT, P., A. ROUQUET, J.-B. SUQUET, "Le développement du commerce de centre-ville ne se réduit pas à la poursuite d’un objectif marchand", Le Monde, October 2024