Bio:

Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber will join the University Duisburg-Essen as Full Professor at the Chair for Managerial Accounting and Sustainability as of September 1, 2025. Moreover, she is Adjunct Faculty Member at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA) and Affiliated Professor at Groningen University (The Netherlands). 

Before joining the University Duisburg-Essen, she served as Assistant and later Associate Professor at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and as Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg (Germany). She is a regular Visiting Researcher at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA), and she was a Visiting Researcher at Johns Hopkins University (Maryland, USA). She received her Ph.D. at the Technical University of Dresden (Germany). Through her work as a project manager for a European Regional Development Fund Project, she also gained valuable management experience in practice. 

Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber’s research focus is on management controls and in particular on how budgeting, performance measurement, and management control systems are transformed by developments like sustainability, AI, and increasing individualization. Her research has been published in leading, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary academic journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Organizational Research Methods, British Accounting Review, and Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, as well as in practice-oriented publications. 

Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber is reviewer at leading journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Management Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and British Accounting Review. She is currently co-editing the Handbook on Management Control in a Transforming Society. She is also reviewer for third-party funded projects, and has secured herself meaningful third-funded projects from the Foundation for Auditing Research.

Publications:

• Bellora-Bienengäber, L.; Speklé, R.  F.; Widener, S.  K.: Performance Measurement as a Lever of Control. In: Lillis, A.; Grafton, J. (Ed.): Research Handbook on Performance Measurement for Management Control. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, p. 112-131. DetailsCitation
• Bellora-Bienengäber, L.; Harten, C.; Meyer, M.: The Effectiveness of Risk Assessments in Risk Workshops: The Role of Calculative Cultures. In: Journal of Risk Research, Vol26 (2023), p. 163-183. doi:10.1080/13669877.2022.2091234DetailsCitation
• Harten, C.; Bellora-Bienengäber, L.; Meyer, M.: Improving Risk Workshops: The Im-portance of the Right Process. 2023. DetailsFull textCitation
• Harten, C.; Bellora-Bienengäber, L.; Meyer, M.: Understanding Decision-Making in Risk Workshops: Risk Management and Calculative Cultures. 2023. DetailsFull textCitation
• Bellora-Bienengäber, L.; Derfuss, K.; Endrikat, J.: Taking Stock of Research on the Levers of Control with Meta-Analytic Methods: Stylized Facts and Boundary Conditions. In: Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol106 (2023), p. 101414. doi:10.1016/j.aos.2023.101414DetailsCitation
• Plähn, J.; Bellora-Bienengäber, L.; Mertens, K.  G.; Meyer, M.: Combining Experiments with Agent-Based Modelling: Benefits for Experimental Management Accounting Research. In: Squazzoni, F. (Ed.): Advances in Social Simulation. Springer, 2023, p. 371-382. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-XXXX-X_23DetailsCitation
• Harten, C.; Bellora-Bienengäber, L.; Meyer, M.: Effektive Risikoworkshops … aber wie? Simulationsexperimente zur Gestaltung effektiver Risikoworkshops. In: Controlling—Zeitschrift für erfolgsorientierte Unternehmenssteuerung, Vol35 (2023), p. 48-52. doi:10.1007/s11612-023-00678-5DetailsCitation
• Bellora-Bienengäber, L.; Radtke, R.; Widener, S.  K.: Counterproductive Work Behaviors and Work Climate: The Role of an Ethically Focused Management Control System and Peers’ Self-Focused Behavior. In: Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol96 (2022), p. 101275. doi:10.1016/j.aos.2022.101275DetailsCitation
• Harten, C.; Meyer, M.; Bellora-Bienengäber, L.: Talking About the Likelihood of Risks: An Agent-Based Simulation of Discussion Processes in Risk Workshops. In: Journal of Accounting \& Organizational Change, Vol18 (2022), p. 153-173. doi:10.1108/JAOC-09-2021-0152DetailsCitation
• Derfuss, K.; Bellora-Bienengäber, L.; Endrikat, J.: Implementing Risk Governance: A Levers of Control Approach. In: Wiedemann, A.; Stein, V.; Fonseca, M. (Ed.): Impulse zur Risk Governance—Anstösse für die Weiterentwicklung. Universitätsverlag Siegen, 2022, p. 93-98. DetailsCitation
• Bellora-Bienengäber, L.: Configurations of Control in Product Development. In: Journal of Accounting \& Organizational Change, Vol15 (2019), p. 127-146. doi:10.1108/JAOC-08-2018-0092DetailsCitation
• Bellora-Bienengäber, L.; Ott, C.: Innovative Kommunikationstechnologien für Investor Relations-Aktivitäten — Eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme. DIRK — Deutscher Investor Relations Verband e.V., Frankfurt am Main 2017 (ISBN: 978-3-938123-XX-X). DetailsCitation
• Hamann, P.  M.; Schiemann, F.; Bellora, L.; Guenther, T.  W.: Exploring the Dimensions of Organizational Performance: A Construct Validity Study. In: Organizational Research Methods, Vol16 (2013), p. 67-87. doi:10.1177/1094428112458259DetailsCitation
• Bellora, L.; Guenther, T.  W.: Drivers of Innovation Capital Disclosure in Intellectual Capital Statements: Evidence from Europe. In: The British Accounting Review, Vol45 (2013), p. 255-270. doi:10.1016/j.bar.2013.04.001DetailsCitation
• Bellora, L.: Accounting and Innovation: Evidence from External Disclosure and Internal Management Control Systems (Dissertation). City, Country 2013. DetailsCitation
• Bellora, L.: Collaboration. In: Coenenberg, A.  G.; Fischer, T.  M.; Günther, T. (Ed.): Kostenrechnung und Kostenanalyse. 7th Edition. Schäffer-Poeschel, 2009. DetailsCitation
• Bellora, L.: Collaboration. In: Coenenberg, A.  G.; Fischer, T.  M.; Günther, T. (Ed.): Kostenrechnung und Kostenanalyse. 6th Edition. Schäffer-Poeschel, 2007. DetailsCitation