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Dr Lara Pecis
(she/her)
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Lara Pecis
Lecturer in Management, Employment and Organisation
Overview
I am interested in tackling the darker side of innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems. My research focuses on the gender and racial inequalities at work, and how to promote more equitable work spaces, specifically in the context of innovation-intensive organisations and SMEs. I am also interested in the role of history and historical oragnisation studies in different contexts, such as family businesses and innovation.
My research has been published in scholarly journals, such as 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.
Publication
2025
- Pecis, L., Cervi, L. and Introna, L. 2025. In blockchain we trust: Ideologies and discourses sustaining trust in bitcoin. Information and Organization 35(2), article number: 100573. (10.1016/j.infoandorg.2025.100573)
- 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
- Ge, B., Bauer, F. and Pecis, L. 2024. Stick to the knitting? Legacy beyond the original family businesses through rhetorical history. Presented at: 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, USA, 9-13 August 2024, Vol. 2024. Vol. 1. Academy of Management, (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., Ge, B. and Bauer, F. 2024. The strategic realignment of paradoxical family and business goals in family business: A rhetorical history perspective. Business History (10.1080/00076791.2024.2317938)
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)
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)
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, (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)
- 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. 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. Presented at: AOM Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida, 9-13 August 2013, Vol. 2014. Vol. 1. Academy of Management
Articles
- Pecis, L., Cervi, L. and Introna, L. 2025. In blockchain we trust: Ideologies and discourses sustaining trust in bitcoin. Information and Organization 35(2), article number: 100573. (10.1016/j.infoandorg.2025.100573)
- 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)
- 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., Ge, B. and Bauer, F. 2024. The strategic realignment of paradoxical family and business goals in family business: A rhetorical history perspective. Business History (10.1080/00076791.2024.2317938)
- 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)
Book sections
- 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, (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.5)
- Contu, A. and Pecis, L. 2017. Groups and teams at work. In: Knights, D. and Wilmott, H. eds. Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management. Cengage Learning, pp. 113-157.
Conferences
- Ge, B., Bauer, F. and Pecis, L. 2024. Stick to the knitting? Legacy beyond the original family businesses through rhetorical history. Presented at: 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL, USA, 9-13 August 2024, Vol. 2024. Vol. 1. Academy of Management, (10.5465/AMPROC.2024.226bp)
- 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.
- Pecis, L. 2014. Organizational multi-sited ethnography: challenges and strategies in management research. Presented at: AOM Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida, 9-13 August 2013, Vol. 2014. Vol. 1. Academy of Management
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
PecisL@cardiff.ac.uk
+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