L. (Lucia) Bellora-Bienengräber, Dr

Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber is Associate Professor at the Department of Accounting and Auditing at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). She is Fellow of the FEB Research Institute at the University of Groningen. Moreover, she is Adjunct Faculty Member at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA).

Before joining the University of Groningen in 2020, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg (Germany) from 2014 till 2020. She is a regular Visiting Researcher at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA), with visits in 2017, 2018,  2019, 2022, and 2023, and she was a Visiting Researcher at Johns Hopkins University (Maryland, USA) in 2016. She received her Ph.D. at the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) in 2013 and she worked as a project manager for a European Regional Development Fund Project and for other projects between 2012 and 2014. 

Lucia's research covers fields at the intersection between management control, management accounting, and disclosure quality. Lucia uses insights from sociology, psychology, and strategy research to investigate the connections between these fields and related behavioral antecedents and outcomes. Moreover, she challenges the validity of measurement approaches used in her research fields. Her research has been published in leading, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary academic journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Organizational Research Methods, The British Accounting Review, and Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change.