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Dr Lara Pecis
(she/her)
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Lara Pecis
Overview
I am interested in tackling the darker side of organising, with particular attention to the margins at work, and in innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems. My research focuses on gender and racial inequalities at work, and how to promote more equitable work spaces, specifically in the context of innovation-intensive organisations, higher education and SMEs. I am also interested in the role of history and historical organisation studies in different contexts, such as family businesses and innovation.
My research has been published in scholarly journals, such as British Journal of Management, Business History, Human Relations, Gender Work and Organization, Organization, among other contributions in edited books. I am a Fellow of of the Higher Education Academy. I am member of the Innovation Caucus and associate editor for Gender, Work and Organization and Culture & Organization.
Publication
2026
- Pecis, L. and Kelan, E. K. 2026. Fix thyself: un/doing confidence in women’s entrepreneurship. Gender, Work & Organization 33 (5), pp.1791-1805. (10.1111/gwao.70155)
- Pecis, L. 2026. Un/doing confidence. [Podcast]. Available at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Y5QqpSDN7XlE7tt3dF0TC?si=aB0NNBU2S0uF4TKEK4KYjQ.
- Pecis, L. and Bauer, F. 2026. When thriving for more collapses the system: The academic reproduction of uncaring structures. British Journal of Management e70066. (10.1111/1467-8551.70066)
- Loacker, B. and Pecis, L. 2026. Complexities of managing people and change: The case of a ‘recycling and recovery’ organisation. In: Burrell, G. et al., A Handbook For The Critical Analysis Of Organisations, Work And Technology. Bristol: Bristol University Press(10.5281/zenodo.10471476)
2025
- Berglund, K. and Pecis, L. 2025. Social entrepreneurship from margin to centre: Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper’s contributions in transforming society through practices of opening up. Business History (10.1080/00076791.2025.2570775)
- Pecis, L. , Cervi, L. and Introna, L. 2025. In blockchain we trust: Ideologies and discourses sustaining trust in bitcoin. Information and Organization 35 (2) 100573. (10.1016/j.infoandorg.2025.100573)
- Pecis, L. 2025. Written evidence for the Women and Equalities Committee, UK Parliament [Female entrepreneurship inquiry]. Project Report.House of Commons.
- Pecis, L. and Ge, B. 2025. The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship. [Podcast]. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. Available at: https://entrepreneurship-erd.com/podcast/episode-119-lara-pecis-binbing-ge-the-bittersweet-taste-of-family-business-exploring-the-dynamics-gendering-and-racializing-entrepreneurship/.
- Pecis, L. , Ge, B. and Bauer, F. 2025. The strategic realignment of paradoxical family and business goals in family business: A rhetorical history perspective. Business History 67 (2), pp.577-607. (10.1080/00076791.2024.2317938)
- Pecis, L. and Ge, B. 2025. The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (10.1080/08985626.2025.2459232)
2024
- Pecis, L. , Ge, B. and Bauer, F. 2024. Family history can be re-framed to encourage harmony and progress. [Online].FamilyBusiness.org: Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange. (10.32617/1105-6751a03ee81d6)Available at: https://doi.org/10.32617/1105-6751a03ee81d6.
- Ge, B. , Bauer, F. and Pecis, L. 2024. Stick to the knitting? Legacy beyond the original family businesses through rhetorical history [Abstract]. Academy of Management Proceedings 2024 (1)(10.5465/AMPROC.2024.226bp)
- Pecis, L. and Touboulic, A. 2024. Academic mothers and the practice of embodied care: Navigating and resisting uncaring structures in the neoliberal academy. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 43 (5), pp.784-803. (10.1108/EDI-07-2022-0194)
2023
- Jain, S. , Stead, V. and Pecis, L. 2023. Gender Matters; are the gaps closing?. UK Research and Innovation. Available at: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/research/GenderMattersEventReport.pdf.
2022
- Contu, A. and Pecis, L. 2022. Groups and teams at work. In: Knights, D. and Wilmott, H. eds. Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management (4th edition). Cengage Learning
- Pecis, L. 2022. Case study: Inclusive innovation: Sustaining productivity and socio-economic inclusion through innovation centres, hubs and districts. Lancaster University. Available at: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/research/Case-Study-Inclusive-Innovation.pdf.
- Pecis, L. , Stead, V. and Wilkes, M. 2022. Gender matters 2022. Project Report.[Online].Lancaster University. Available at: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/research/GenderMatters2022.pdf.
2021
- Pecis, L. and Berglund, K. 2021. Hidden in the limelight: A feminist engagement with innovation studies. Organization 28 (6), pp.993-1017. (10.1177/13505084211015380)
- Pecis, L. 2021. Concept as method: ethnography in a posthumanist world. In: Stead, V. , Elliott, C. and Mavin, S. eds. Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and Management. Edward Elgar. , pp.281-294. (10.4337/9781788977937.00028)
- Florisson, R. and Pecis, L. 2021. Mitigating wellbeing pressures in remote and hybrid working models. [Online].Work Foundation: Lancaster University. Available at: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundation/news/blog/mitigating-wellbeing-pressures-in-remote-and-hybrid-working-models.
2020
- Priola, V. and Pecis, L. 2020. Missing voices: the absence of women from Italy's Covid-19 pandemic response. Gender in Management: An International Journal 35 (7/8), pp.619-627. (10.1108/GM-07-2020-0218)
- Pecis, L. 2020. Covid exposes Italy’s problem with women. [Online].54 Degrees: Lancaster University Management School. Available at: https://doc.your-brochure-online.co.uk/Lancaster-University_FiftyFourDegrees-Issue_10/10/.
- Pecis, L. and Banerjee, A. 2020. Inclusive innovation: sustaining productivity and socio-economic inclusion through innovation centre, hubs and districts.. Project Report.[Online].Productivity Insights Network. Available at: https://productivityinsightsnetwork.co.uk/app/uploads/2020/02/PecisBanerjee_InclusiveInnovation_February2020.pdf.
2019
- Introna, L. and Pecis, L. 2019. Bitcoin as a mediating technology of organization. In: Beyes, T. , Holt, R. and Pias, C. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Oxford University Press. , pp.43-53. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.5)
- Pecis, L. and Priola, V. 2019. The 'new industrial man' as unhero: Doing postfeminist masculinities in an Italian pharmacological research centre. Gender, Work and Organization 26 (10), pp.1413-1432. (10.1111/gwao.12359)
- Brewis, D. N. and Pecis, L. 2019. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Revolutionary roots and liberal spores. In: McMurray, R. and Pullen, A. eds. Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management. Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Management and Organization Studies Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. , pp.51-66.
- Pecis, L. 2019. Book review: the organization of craft work: identities, meanings, and materiality (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society). Organization Studies 40 (11), pp.1771-1774. (10.1177/0170840619842723)
2017
- Contu, A. and Pecis, L. 2017. Groups and teams at work. In: Knights, D. and Wilmott, H. eds. Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management (3rd edition). Cengage Learning. , pp.113-157.
2016
- Pecis, L. 2016. Doing and undoing gender in innovation: Femininities and masculinities in innovation processes. Human Relations 69 (11), pp.2117-2140. (10.1177/0018726716634445)
- Contu, A. and Pecis, L. 2016. On the knowledge making enterprise in OMT: the significance of reflexivity and diffraction. Presented at: IFIP Working Group 8.2 Conference Dublin, Ireland 9 - 10 December 2016.
- Pecis, L. , Thirlaway, K. and Archer-Brown, C. 2016. Towards a sociomaterial approach to emotions in IS research. Presented at: 2016 International Conference on Information Systems Dublin, Ireland 11 - 14 December 2016.
2014
- Pecis, L. 2014. Organizational multi-sited ethnography: challenges and strategies in management research [Abstract]. Academy of Management Proceedings 2014 (1)(10.5465/ambpp.2014.13927abstract)
Articles
- Pecis, L. and Kelan, E. K. 2026. Fix thyself: un/doing confidence in women’s entrepreneurship. Gender, Work & Organization 33 (5), pp.1791-1805. (10.1111/gwao.70155)
- Pecis, L. and Bauer, F. 2026. When thriving for more collapses the system: The academic reproduction of uncaring structures. British Journal of Management e70066. (10.1111/1467-8551.70066)
- Berglund, K. and Pecis, L. 2025. Social entrepreneurship from margin to centre: Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper’s contributions in transforming society through practices of opening up. Business History (10.1080/00076791.2025.2570775)
- Pecis, L. , Cervi, L. and Introna, L. 2025. In blockchain we trust: Ideologies and discourses sustaining trust in bitcoin. Information and Organization 35 (2) 100573. (10.1016/j.infoandorg.2025.100573)
- Pecis, L. , Ge, B. and Bauer, F. 2025. The strategic realignment of paradoxical family and business goals in family business: A rhetorical history perspective. Business History 67 (2), pp.577-607. (10.1080/00076791.2024.2317938)
- Pecis, L. and Ge, B. 2025. The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (10.1080/08985626.2025.2459232)
- Ge, B. , Bauer, F. and Pecis, L. 2024. Stick to the knitting? Legacy beyond the original family businesses through rhetorical history [Abstract]. Academy of Management Proceedings 2024 (1)(10.5465/AMPROC.2024.226bp)
- Pecis, L. and Touboulic, A. 2024. Academic mothers and the practice of embodied care: Navigating and resisting uncaring structures in the neoliberal academy. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 43 (5), pp.784-803. (10.1108/EDI-07-2022-0194)
- Pecis, L. and Berglund, K. 2021. Hidden in the limelight: A feminist engagement with innovation studies. Organization 28 (6), pp.993-1017. (10.1177/13505084211015380)
- Priola, V. and Pecis, L. 2020. Missing voices: the absence of women from Italy's Covid-19 pandemic response. Gender in Management: An International Journal 35 (7/8), pp.619-627. (10.1108/GM-07-2020-0218)
- Pecis, L. and Priola, V. 2019. The 'new industrial man' as unhero: Doing postfeminist masculinities in an Italian pharmacological research centre. Gender, Work and Organization 26 (10), pp.1413-1432. (10.1111/gwao.12359)
- Pecis, L. 2019. Book review: the organization of craft work: identities, meanings, and materiality (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society). Organization Studies 40 (11), pp.1771-1774. (10.1177/0170840619842723)
- Pecis, L. 2016. Doing and undoing gender in innovation: Femininities and masculinities in innovation processes. Human Relations 69 (11), pp.2117-2140. (10.1177/0018726716634445)
- Pecis, L. 2014. Organizational multi-sited ethnography: challenges and strategies in management research [Abstract]. Academy of Management Proceedings 2014 (1)(10.5465/ambpp.2014.13927abstract)
Book sections
- Loacker, B. and Pecis, L. 2026. Complexities of managing people and change: The case of a ‘recycling and recovery’ organisation. In: Burrell, G. et al., A Handbook For The Critical Analysis Of Organisations, Work And Technology. Bristol: Bristol University Press(10.5281/zenodo.10471476)
- Contu, A. and Pecis, L. 2022. Groups and teams at work. In: Knights, D. and Wilmott, H. eds. Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management (4th edition). Cengage Learning
- Pecis, L. 2021. Concept as method: ethnography in a posthumanist world. In: Stead, V. , Elliott, C. and Mavin, S. eds. Handbook of Research Methods on Gender and Management. Edward Elgar. , pp.281-294. (10.4337/9781788977937.00028)
- Introna, L. and Pecis, L. 2019. Bitcoin as a mediating technology of organization. In: Beyes, T. , Holt, R. and Pias, C. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies. Oxford University Press. , pp.43-53. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.5)
- Brewis, D. N. and Pecis, L. 2019. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Revolutionary roots and liberal spores. In: McMurray, R. and Pullen, A. eds. Power, Politics and Exclusion in Organization and Management. Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Management and Organization Studies Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. , pp.51-66.
- Contu, A. and Pecis, L. 2017. Groups and teams at work. In: Knights, D. and Wilmott, H. eds. Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management (3rd edition). Cengage Learning. , pp.113-157.
Conferences
- Contu, A. and Pecis, L. 2016. On the knowledge making enterprise in OMT: the significance of reflexivity and diffraction. Presented at: IFIP Working Group 8.2 Conference Dublin, Ireland 9 - 10 December 2016.
- Pecis, L. , Thirlaway, K. and Archer-Brown, C. 2016. Towards a sociomaterial approach to emotions in IS research. Presented at: 2016 International Conference on Information Systems Dublin, Ireland 11 - 14 December 2016.
Monographs
- Pecis, L. 2025. Written evidence for the Women and Equalities Committee, UK Parliament [Female entrepreneurship inquiry]. Project Report.House of Commons.
- Jain, S. , Stead, V. and Pecis, L. 2023. Gender Matters; are the gaps closing?. UK Research and Innovation. Available at: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/research/GenderMattersEventReport.pdf.
- Pecis, L. 2022. Case study: Inclusive innovation: Sustaining productivity and socio-economic inclusion through innovation centres, hubs and districts. Lancaster University. Available at: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/research/Case-Study-Inclusive-Innovation.pdf.
- Pecis, L. , Stead, V. and Wilkes, M. 2022. Gender matters 2022. Project Report.[Online].Lancaster University. Available at: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/research/GenderMatters2022.pdf.
- Pecis, L. and Banerjee, A. 2020. Inclusive innovation: sustaining productivity and socio-economic inclusion through innovation centre, hubs and districts.. Project Report.[Online].Productivity Insights Network. Available at: https://productivityinsightsnetwork.co.uk/app/uploads/2020/02/PecisBanerjee_InclusiveInnovation_February2020.pdf.
Videos
- Pecis, L. 2026. Un/doing confidence. [Podcast]. Available at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Y5QqpSDN7XlE7tt3dF0TC?si=aB0NNBU2S0uF4TKEK4KYjQ.
- Pecis, L. and Ge, B. 2025. The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship. [Podcast]. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. Available at: https://entrepreneurship-erd.com/podcast/episode-119-lara-pecis-binbing-ge-the-bittersweet-taste-of-family-business-exploring-the-dynamics-gendering-and-racializing-entrepreneurship/.
Websites
- Pecis, L. , Ge, B. and Bauer, F. 2024. Family history can be re-framed to encourage harmony and progress. [Online].FamilyBusiness.org: Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange. (10.32617/1105-6751a03ee81d6)Available at: https://doi.org/10.32617/1105-6751a03ee81d6.
- Florisson, R. and Pecis, L. 2021. Mitigating wellbeing pressures in remote and hybrid working models. [Online].Work Foundation: Lancaster University. Available at: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundation/news/blog/mitigating-wellbeing-pressures-in-remote-and-hybrid-working-models.
- Pecis, L. 2020. Covid exposes Italy’s problem with women. [Online].54 Degrees: Lancaster University Management School. Available at: https://doc.your-brochure-online.co.uk/Lancaster-University_FiftyFourDegrees-Issue_10/10/.
Research
Research interests
- Gender and critical race theory
- Inclusive innovation
- Darker sides of technologies and innovation ecosystems
Past funded projects
- ESRC IAA (2022-2023): Gender matters: addressing the challenges for women in contemporary forms of work
- ESRC PIN (2019): Inclusive innovation: sustaining productivity and socio-economic inclusion through innovation centres, hubs and districts
Teaching
I am Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and have taught at different levels (MBA, MSc and UG) throughout my academic career in the following areas:
- technology & innovation
- technological past and futures
- diversity & inclusion
- qualitative research methods
- organisational behaviour
- challenges in managing and leading organisaitons
- contemporary global challenges
Biography
I have joined Cardiff Business School in 2023 as a Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation. I previously held a position as Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Lancaster University Management School for over six years, was a research associate at the University of Bath (2016) and a teaching assistant at Bristol University (2015). I completed my PhD at Warwick Business School in 2015.
Supervisions
I am currently supervising PhD researchers focused on the following areas:
- gender and diversity issues in academia
- managerial consciousness
- entrepreneurship from the margins
Current supervision
Hanin Abou Salem Abou Salem
Contact Details
[email protected]
+44 29208 75586
Aberconway Building, Room Room S35d, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
+44 29208 75586
Aberconway Building, Room Room S35d, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU