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.