Professor Claudine Mangen

Biography

Dr. Claudine Mangen researches organizational governance, merit, and experiences of work. She has published her work in top-ranked academic journals recognized by the Australian Business Deans' Council and part of the Financial Times Top 50 Journals, including Human Relations, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Accounting Research. In 2024, she was awarded the Gender Chair by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her work is interdisciplinary, combining theoretical lenses anchored in sociology, economics and philosophy with qualitative and quantitative methods. She has secured $293,716 in research funding as a Principal Investigator from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Her essays on organizational governance, the functioning of merit, and experiences of work have been published in The Conversation/La Conversation Canada, earning her the President’s Media Outreach Award in 2023 at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and leading to a chapter in The Conversation on Work (2024, Johns Hopkins University Press). Her book manuscript, The Gender of Merit, is under advance contract with the University of British Columbia Press, Canada. She has discussed organizational governance, the functioning of merit, and experiences of work at numerous public events, including a 2025 conference for Réseau Capital in Montreal.

She has applied her research on organizational governance, the functioning of merit, and experiences of work in several leadership positions she has held, including on the Executive of the Concordia University Faculty Association (2023-2025), the Board of Governors at Concordia University (2017-2023), as the Director of the Luc Beauregard Centre of Excellence in Communications Research at Concordia University (2018-2020), as the leader of Concordia's collaboration with the Women Initiative Foundation (2019-2021), and a director on the board of the non-for-profit Cataléthique (2011-2013).

She has taught courses in accounting, governance, and social responsibility to undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral students, in both French and English, in Canada and internationally.

Dr. Mangen was raised in Luxembourg, received her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Master's Degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Rochester, NY, USA. She is now a professor at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, where she holds the RBC Professorship in Responsible Organizations.

Dr. Mangen writes about her work on Substack and LinkedIn.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Organizations, Governance, Merit, Work, Gender Inequalities

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Business Administration (University of Rochester, New York, USA)
Master's Degree in Finance (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Bacherlor's Degree in Economics (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)

1. 2024. Men's experiences of paternity leaves in accounting firms, Accounting Horizons, with C Garnier and E Nortier.

2. 2023. Trust in international cooperation: Emotional and cognitive trust complement each other over time, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, with N Duenas. 

3. 2021. “A woman who’s tough, she’s a bitch.” How labels anchored in unconscious bias shape the institution of gender, Women, Gender & Research

4. 2020. The spillover effects of MD&A disclosures for real investment: The role of industry competition, Journal of Accounting and Economics, with A Durnev.

5. 2020. Smoke and mirrors? Disclosures in the marijuana industry in Canada, Accounting Perspectives, with A Paduano, B Paduano, J Hadzurik, J Leggio, K Russo.  

6. 2017. Understanding student motivations in the auditing/accounting programs: An exploratory research, Finance, Contrôle et Stratégie, with A Deville and V Peres.

7. 2017. Implications of economic shocks for CEO performance evaluation, European Accounting Review.

8. 2015. The challenge of sustaining organizational hybridity: The role of power and agency, Human Relations, with M Brivot.

9. 2013. Discussion of “Are analysts’ cash flow forecasts naïve extensions of their own earnings forecasts?“ Contemporary Accounting Research.

10. 2012. Say on Pay: A wolf in Sheep's Clothing? Academy of Management Perspectives, with M Magnan.

11. 2009. Corporate investments: Learning from restatements. Journal of Accounting Research, with A Durnev.

Manuscripts under review

• “I felt violence in human relations.” On the ordinary suffering of working in accountancy PSFs, with C Garnier, revise-and-resubmit at Accounting, Organizations and Society

•  How calculative practices contribute to (dis)organizing: An ethnographic case study of a  failed Olympic candidature, with K DeMott, revise-and-resubmit at The Accounting Review

• Sexual risk management: How women professionals navigate ambiguous interactions at work, with S Maire, revise-and-resubmit at Critical Perspectives on Accounting

• Do ESG ratings shape executive compensation? An empirical study, with L Keddie 

• Gender inequalities and accounting practices in international cooperation, with N Dueñas