Academic Position
Full Professor of Business Economics, Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara. Courses taught "IFRS Accounting" and "Corporate Value Creation & Risk Management"
Visiting Positions
Warwick Business School (1989-90); London Business School (1994); HEC (1997) and ESCP in Paris (1992); University of Melbourne (1996, 2000, 2003); University of Reading (1996-98); School of Management, University of Boston (1999); University of Metz (2000); University of Canterbury at Christchurch (2005 & 2006); Waseda University of Tokyo (2009 & 2014); Stern School of Business of New York University (2009); Free University of Bolzano (2010); University of Trento (2012 & 2013); & University of Passau (Germany) (2012 & 2014)
Keynote and Invited Plenary Speaking Roles (main)
OECD’s Forum on “Business Performance and Intellectual Assets” (Paris, 2004); International Conference on “Modernising Accounting in the Public Sector” (European Parliament, 2006); OECD-METI International Conference on “Intellectual assets-based management” (Tokyo, 2006); International Seminar on “Addressing Information Gaps in Business and Macro-Economic Accounts” (United Nations, New York, 2008); 1st Global Intellectual Capital Summit by Chinese Government (Beijing, 2009); AIDEA Annual Congress (Ancona, 2009); 10th International Accounting Conference, Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation (Kolkata, 2011); 33th Congress of the Association Francophone de Comptabilité (Grenoble, 2012); 6th Journée Nationale des Actifs Immatériels (French Ministry of Economy, Paris, 2015); 1st DVFA Corporate Reporting Day (Frankfurt, 2017); 2nd International Workshop on “Measurement for Non-Financial Reporting”, Higher School of Economics-HSE (Moscow, 2017); IIRC's Integrated Reporting Convention (Amsterdam, 2017); "Oscar di Bilancio" Ceremony (Milan, 2017); HSE Symposium on “Intellectual Capital: Measurement and Reporting” (Moscow, 2019); Symposium on “Accounting and Politics”, 42th EAA Annual Congress (Paphos, 2019); the IIRC Official Convention (London, 2019); EFFAS “Commission on ESG” Conference (Paris, 2019); and Session "Country Spotlight: Italy", IIRC's Global online Conference (2020)
Editorial Boards & Refereeing
Member of the Editorial Boards of European Accounting Review (1988-2007); International Journal of Accounting (Associate Editor) (2002-05); International Journal of Accounting Literature; Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit (1998-03); International Journal of Digital Accounting Research (2006-now); Financial Reporting (Associate Editor) (2009-now); International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting (now); Indian Accounting Review (now); Azienda Pubblica (2006-15); De Computis-Revista Española de Historia de la Contabilidad (2010-now); Journal of Business Models (2005-now); and Journal of Management and Governance (2016-now)
Reviewer for JMG, JIC, Meditari, AAAJ; CSREM, FR, ABR, etc
(Co-)Guest Editor of Academic Journals’ Special Issues
– “Accounting and Business Economics Traditions” for "European Accounting Review", vol. 5, no. 3, 1996; vol. 6, no. 2, 1997; and vol. 7, no. 3, 1998
– "Accounting and Intellectual Capital: Managing and Reporting Issues for the New Economy" with Baruch Lev (NYU) for “European Accounting Review”, vol. 12, no. 4, 2003
– “1st EIASM Workshop on ‘Visualising, Measuring and Managing Intangibles and Intellectual Capital’” for "Journal of Intellectual Capital", vol. 7, no. 4, 2006
– “The Managerialisation of Financial Reporting” for "Financial Reporting", no. 3, Supplement, 2011
– “Measuring and Managing Intangibles for Accounting Use” for "Journal of Management Control", vol. 22, Dec. 2011
– “Intangibles” for “Financial Reporting", nos. 3/4, 2013
– “The ‘Real’ Impact Factor: Accounting Research, Practice, and Users” with Anne McGeachin (Technical Principal, IASB) & Alan Teixeira (Deloitte and ex-Senior Technical Director, IASB) in collaboration with IFRS Research Centre, for "Financial Reporting", no. 1, 2016
– “Ten Years After: The Past, the Present & the Future of Scholarly Investigation on Intangibles and Intellectual Capital” for “Journal of Intellectual Capital", vol. 17, no. 1, 2016
– “The Role of Intellectual Capital and Integrated Reporting in Management and Governance: A Performative Perspective” for "Journal of Management and Governance", no. 23, 2019
– “Non-financial and Integrated Reporting, Governance and Value Creation” for “Meditari Accounting Research" to appear in 2021
– “Integrated Reporting and Change?” for "Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change" to appear in 2022
Research Positions and Project Responsibilities
– Chair, Conference Committee & member of the EAA Executive Committee (1998-2003)
– “Standing Chair” of the EIASM Interdisciplinary Workshop Series on “Intangibles and Intellectual Capital: Non-Financial and Integrated Reporting, Governance and Value Creation” held annually from
2005 onwards in different European universities
– EIASM Permanent Faculty member (2005-now)
– Vice-President, International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) (2008-12)
– Member, EAA Financial Reporting Research Group (2011-17)
– Upon selection by the EC (DG Enterprise), coordinator of the Study on “The measurement of intangible assets and associated reporting practices” with New York University & University of Melbourne (2001-03)
– Coordinator of the Univ. of Ferrara unit for the EC “Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN)” on “Risk Management and Risk Reporting” (2009-2013)
– Coordinator of the Univ. of Ferrara unit of the project “Know Us” for the EC Interreg Cooperation Italy-Slovenia (2011-15)
– Coordinator of the study "An Academic Literature Review on the Reporting of Intangibles" attributed by EFRAG to Univ. of Ferrara after a research call (2019-20)
– Coordinator of the project on "The Production and Consumption of Information on Intangibles: An Empirical Investigation of CFOs and Investors” attributed by ICAS to Univ. of Ferrara after a research call, and supported also by EFRAG and EFFAS (2020-21)
Conference Chairs and Scientific Committees
– Scientific Committees of the EAA Congresses of Bordeaux (1999), Athens (2001), Seville (2003), Prague (2004), Rome (2011), and the 1st Virtual Annual Congress of the EAA (2021)
– Co-chair of the International Academic Conference “Accounting Renaissance. Lessons from the Crisis and Looking into the Future. Learning from Histories and Institutions”, Venice, 2011
– Co-Chair, Scientific Committee, 12th World Congress of Accounting Educators & Researchers, Florence, 2014
– Convenor and Chair, International Research Symposium on “The ‘Real’ Impact Factor: Accounting Research, Practice, and Users”, “Financial Reporting” journal with the IASB Research Center, London, 2015
– Chair, Symposium on “What is Performance?”, 39th EAA Annual Congress, Maastricht, 2016
– Convenor, International Policy Conference on “Intellectual Assets and Innovation: Value Creation in the Knowledge Economy” organised by University of Ferrara and OECD, Ferrara, 2005
– Chair, Joint IASB-ICAS event on “Help shape the future of financial reporting”, London, 2015
– Convenor, WICI Europe’s International Policy Conference Series on “Intangibles: The European State of the Art”. 1st edition: Paris, 2015; 2nd edition: Frankfurt, 2017; 3rd edition: Brussels, 2019
Paper presentations
Presentations at many national and international events as well as invited at the Universities of Sydney, New South Wales, Deakin, Reading, LBS, Melbourne, HEC Paris, Canterbury, Waseda, Stern-New York, and Passau
Positions in National and International Organisations
– Global Chair, WICI Network (2015-19)
– Chairman, WICI Europe (2009-15)
– Secretary General, Italian Network for Business Reporting (NIBR) (2012-18)
– Secretary General, Italian Body for Business Reporting (OIBR) (2019-now)
– Member, IIRC Council (2015-19, 2020-now)
– Member, EFFAS General Assembly (2014-now)
– Member, EFFAS Commission on ESG (CESG) (2017-now)
– Member, ICAS Research Panel (2014-now)
– Member, Academic Panel, Italian Accounting Standard Setting (OIC) (2013-14)
– Member of both the National and the International Accounting Standards Committees of OIC (2015-now)
– Member, High Level Expert Group on the Intangible Economy, EC (DG Enterprise) (2000)
– Member, High Level Expert Group on Intellectual Capital Reporting, EC (DG Research) (2004-06)
– Member, Expert Group on Valuation of Intellectual Property, EC (DG Research) (2013-14)
Research Grants
– ICAS Tendered Study on “The Production and Consumption of Information on Intangibles: An Empirical Investigation of CFOs and Investors”, 2020-21, €28,000
– EFRAG Tendered Study on “An Academic Literature Review on the Reporting of Intangibles”, 2019-20, €15,000
– EC Project “Risk Management and Risk reporting” – FP7 PEOPLE ITN 2008, 2009-2013, €316,684.89
– “Co-generation of Competitive Knowledge between Universities and SMEs” (acronym: Know US), Interreg Italy-Slovenia, 2012-14, €133,000
– European Research Project “RESCUE” (then “PRISM”), 2001-03, €88,257.03
– EC Tendered Study on "The Measurement of Intangible Assets and the Associated Reporting Practices", 2002-03, €134,500 (University of Ferrara as PI, New York University & University of Melbourne)
– National Research Project (PRIN) 2001-03 “Public administrations and accounting standards, reporting systems, performance and intangibles”, €35,700
Honours and Awards
– Awarded the “Harry Martens Honorary Chair” by the University of Hasselt (Belgium) (2008)
– The co-authored work “Controlling Expenditure, or the Slow Emergence of Costing at the Venice Arsenal, 1586–1633” has received the Basil Yamey Prize for the Best 2007 paper of the journal “Accounting, Business & Financial History” (now “Accounting History Review”)
Research Quality Evidence
Google Scholar: H index 21 (i-10 index 44)
11 out of the 17 journal papers presented here are of “A rank” according to the Ranking for National Academic Qualification and that of Italian Academy of Business Economics
Full Professor of Business Economics, Department of Economics and Management, University of Ferrara. Courses taught "IFRS Accounting" and "Corporate Value Creation & Risk Management"
Visiting Positions
Warwick Business School (1989-90); London Business School (1994); HEC (1997) and ESCP in Paris (1992); University of Melbourne (1996, 2000, 2003); University of Reading (1996-98); School of Management, University of Boston (1999); University of Metz (2000); University of Canterbury at Christchurch (2005 & 2006); Waseda University of Tokyo (2009 & 2014); Stern School of Business of New York University (2009); Free University of Bolzano (2010); University of Trento (2012 & 2013); & University of Passau (Germany) (2012 & 2014)
Keynote and Invited Plenary Speaking Roles (main)
OECD’s Forum on “Business Performance and Intellectual Assets” (Paris, 2004); International Conference on “Modernising Accounting in the Public Sector” (European Parliament, 2006); OECD-METI International Conference on “Intellectual assets-based management” (Tokyo, 2006); International Seminar on “Addressing Information Gaps in Business and Macro-Economic Accounts” (United Nations, New York, 2008); 1st Global Intellectual Capital Summit by Chinese Government (Beijing, 2009); AIDEA Annual Congress (Ancona, 2009); 10th International Accounting Conference, Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation (Kolkata, 2011); 33th Congress of the Association Francophone de Comptabilité (Grenoble, 2012); 6th Journée Nationale des Actifs Immatériels (French Ministry of Economy, Paris, 2015); 1st DVFA Corporate Reporting Day (Frankfurt, 2017); 2nd International Workshop on “Measurement for Non-Financial Reporting”, Higher School of Economics-HSE (Moscow, 2017); IIRC's Integrated Reporting Convention (Amsterdam, 2017); "Oscar di Bilancio" Ceremony (Milan, 2017); HSE Symposium on “Intellectual Capital: Measurement and Reporting” (Moscow, 2019); Symposium on “Accounting and Politics”, 42th EAA Annual Congress (Paphos, 2019); the IIRC Official Convention (London, 2019); EFFAS “Commission on ESG” Conference (Paris, 2019); and Session "Country Spotlight: Italy", IIRC's Global online Conference (2020)
Editorial Boards & Refereeing
Member of the Editorial Boards of European Accounting Review (1988-2007); International Journal of Accounting (Associate Editor) (2002-05); International Journal of Accounting Literature; Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit (1998-03); International Journal of Digital Accounting Research (2006-now); Financial Reporting (Associate Editor) (2009-now); International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting (now); Indian Accounting Review (now); Azienda Pubblica (2006-15); De Computis-Revista Española de Historia de la Contabilidad (2010-now); Journal of Business Models (2005-now); and Journal of Management and Governance (2016-now)
Reviewer for JMG, JIC, Meditari, AAAJ; CSREM, FR, ABR, etc
(Co-)Guest Editor of Academic Journals’ Special Issues
– “Accounting and Business Economics Traditions” for "European Accounting Review", vol. 5, no. 3, 1996; vol. 6, no. 2, 1997; and vol. 7, no. 3, 1998
– "Accounting and Intellectual Capital: Managing and Reporting Issues for the New Economy" with Baruch Lev (NYU) for “European Accounting Review”, vol. 12, no. 4, 2003
– “1st EIASM Workshop on ‘Visualising, Measuring and Managing Intangibles and Intellectual Capital’” for "Journal of Intellectual Capital", vol. 7, no. 4, 2006
– “The Managerialisation of Financial Reporting” for "Financial Reporting", no. 3, Supplement, 2011
– “Measuring and Managing Intangibles for Accounting Use” for "Journal of Management Control", vol. 22, Dec. 2011
– “Intangibles” for “Financial Reporting", nos. 3/4, 2013
– “The ‘Real’ Impact Factor: Accounting Research, Practice, and Users” with Anne McGeachin (Technical Principal, IASB) & Alan Teixeira (Deloitte and ex-Senior Technical Director, IASB) in collaboration with IFRS Research Centre, for "Financial Reporting", no. 1, 2016
– “Ten Years After: The Past, the Present & the Future of Scholarly Investigation on Intangibles and Intellectual Capital” for “Journal of Intellectual Capital", vol. 17, no. 1, 2016
– “The Role of Intellectual Capital and Integrated Reporting in Management and Governance: A Performative Perspective” for "Journal of Management and Governance", no. 23, 2019
– “Non-financial and Integrated Reporting, Governance and Value Creation” for “Meditari Accounting Research" to appear in 2021
– “Integrated Reporting and Change?” for "Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change" to appear in 2022
Research Positions and Project Responsibilities
– Chair, Conference Committee & member of the EAA Executive Committee (1998-2003)
– “Standing Chair” of the EIASM Interdisciplinary Workshop Series on “Intangibles and Intellectual Capital: Non-Financial and Integrated Reporting, Governance and Value Creation” held annually from
2005 onwards in different European universities
– EIASM Permanent Faculty member (2005-now)
– Vice-President, International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER) (2008-12)
– Member, EAA Financial Reporting Research Group (2011-17)
– Upon selection by the EC (DG Enterprise), coordinator of the Study on “The measurement of intangible assets and associated reporting practices” with New York University & University of Melbourne (2001-03)
– Coordinator of the Univ. of Ferrara unit for the EC “Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN)” on “Risk Management and Risk Reporting” (2009-2013)
– Coordinator of the Univ. of Ferrara unit of the project “Know Us” for the EC Interreg Cooperation Italy-Slovenia (2011-15)
– Coordinator of the study "An Academic Literature Review on the Reporting of Intangibles" attributed by EFRAG to Univ. of Ferrara after a research call (2019-20)
– Coordinator of the project on "The Production and Consumption of Information on Intangibles: An Empirical Investigation of CFOs and Investors” attributed by ICAS to Univ. of Ferrara after a research call, and supported also by EFRAG and EFFAS (2020-21)
Conference Chairs and Scientific Committees
– Scientific Committees of the EAA Congresses of Bordeaux (1999), Athens (2001), Seville (2003), Prague (2004), Rome (2011), and the 1st Virtual Annual Congress of the EAA (2021)
– Co-chair of the International Academic Conference “Accounting Renaissance. Lessons from the Crisis and Looking into the Future. Learning from Histories and Institutions”, Venice, 2011
– Co-Chair, Scientific Committee, 12th World Congress of Accounting Educators & Researchers, Florence, 2014
– Convenor and Chair, International Research Symposium on “The ‘Real’ Impact Factor: Accounting Research, Practice, and Users”, “Financial Reporting” journal with the IASB Research Center, London, 2015
– Chair, Symposium on “What is Performance?”, 39th EAA Annual Congress, Maastricht, 2016
– Convenor, International Policy Conference on “Intellectual Assets and Innovation: Value Creation in the Knowledge Economy” organised by University of Ferrara and OECD, Ferrara, 2005
– Chair, Joint IASB-ICAS event on “Help shape the future of financial reporting”, London, 2015
– Convenor, WICI Europe’s International Policy Conference Series on “Intangibles: The European State of the Art”. 1st edition: Paris, 2015; 2nd edition: Frankfurt, 2017; 3rd edition: Brussels, 2019
Paper presentations
Presentations at many national and international events as well as invited at the Universities of Sydney, New South Wales, Deakin, Reading, LBS, Melbourne, HEC Paris, Canterbury, Waseda, Stern-New York, and Passau
Positions in National and International Organisations
– Global Chair, WICI Network (2015-19)
– Chairman, WICI Europe (2009-15)
– Secretary General, Italian Network for Business Reporting (NIBR) (2012-18)
– Secretary General, Italian Body for Business Reporting (OIBR) (2019-now)
– Member, IIRC Council (2015-19, 2020-now)
– Member, EFFAS General Assembly (2014-now)
– Member, EFFAS Commission on ESG (CESG) (2017-now)
– Member, ICAS Research Panel (2014-now)
– Member, Academic Panel, Italian Accounting Standard Setting (OIC) (2013-14)
– Member of both the National and the International Accounting Standards Committees of OIC (2015-now)
– Member, High Level Expert Group on the Intangible Economy, EC (DG Enterprise) (2000)
– Member, High Level Expert Group on Intellectual Capital Reporting, EC (DG Research) (2004-06)
– Member, Expert Group on Valuation of Intellectual Property, EC (DG Research) (2013-14)
Research Grants
– ICAS Tendered Study on “The Production and Consumption of Information on Intangibles: An Empirical Investigation of CFOs and Investors”, 2020-21, €28,000
– EFRAG Tendered Study on “An Academic Literature Review on the Reporting of Intangibles”, 2019-20, €15,000
– EC Project “Risk Management and Risk reporting” – FP7 PEOPLE ITN 2008, 2009-2013, €316,684.89
– “Co-generation of Competitive Knowledge between Universities and SMEs” (acronym: Know US), Interreg Italy-Slovenia, 2012-14, €133,000
– European Research Project “RESCUE” (then “PRISM”), 2001-03, €88,257.03
– EC Tendered Study on "The Measurement of Intangible Assets and the Associated Reporting Practices", 2002-03, €134,500 (University of Ferrara as PI, New York University & University of Melbourne)
– National Research Project (PRIN) 2001-03 “Public administrations and accounting standards, reporting systems, performance and intangibles”, €35,700
Honours and Awards
– Awarded the “Harry Martens Honorary Chair” by the University of Hasselt (Belgium) (2008)
– The co-authored work “Controlling Expenditure, or the Slow Emergence of Costing at the Venice Arsenal, 1586–1633” has received the Basil Yamey Prize for the Best 2007 paper of the journal “Accounting, Business & Financial History” (now “Accounting History Review”)
Research Quality Evidence
Google Scholar: H index 21 (i-10 index 44)
11 out of the 17 journal papers presented here are of “A rank” according to the Ranking for National Academic Qualification and that of Italian Academy of Business Economics
