LESCOAT Pierre

Accounting, Control & Legal Affairs

PhD, Management, Management Control

Pierre is an Assistant professor of Management Control at NEOMA Business School. Pierre’s research is interdisciplinary. He studies evaluation practices in organizations. His focus is on the impact of such practices on subjectivities, accountability and gender equality . He uses mostly qualitative methods. Pierre is also working on a project on work intermediaries in different fields, such as the creative industries or the finance industry. He collaborated to the book “Quantifier l’égalité”(Quantifying Equality) and participated in many academic conferences. His PhD dissertation received the 2020 prize of the best interdisciplinary dissertation by the FNEGE. Before joining Neoma Business School Pierre worked as a financial controller in the film industry and a management consultant in the media/telco industry. Pierre holds a PhD from ESCP Europe and two masters’ degrees from HEC Paris and Paris Nanterre University.

Areas of research

Management control
Sociology of accounting
Sociology of finance
Gender studies
Individual performance evaluation, subjectivation, "accountability" structures

Recent academic contributions

LESCOAT, P., "Queering the pandemic at work, a fictocritical tale", Gender, Work and Organization, November 2022
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
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

Article

LESCOAT, P., "Queering the pandemic at work, a fictocritical tale", Gender, Work and Organization, November 2022
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

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., 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 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" Warwick Business School research seminar. 2018, Coventry, 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