Chiara Leardini, PhD Curriculum Vitae Department of Business Administration E-mail: Chiara.leardini@univr.it University of Verona Via Dell Artigliere 19 37100 Verona (Italy) ACADEMIC POSITION Since 2006 Associate Professor of Business Administration, Università degli Studi di Verona, Dipartimento di Economia Aziendale, Italy. EDUCATION Ph.D in Organizzazione e gestione delle imprese, focus on managerial control in health care organizations, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy. Laurea, Facoltà di Economia (Business School of Management), Universita` degli Studi di Verona, Italy. RESEARCH INTERESTS - Roles, structures and processes in nonprofit governance - Stakeholder engagement in non-profit organizations - Accountability and social reporting in public and non-profit organizations - Performance management in public sector - Accounting history in religious institutions RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT -1997 Methods of Research School and Didactic Methods School, organized by AIDEA (Italian Academy of Business Administration and Management). -2013 School in Research Design at the School of Management for Business and Public Administration. University of Calabria 1
MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMICS & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS - International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) - Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA) - Italian Academy of Business Administration and Management (AIDEA) AWARDS Italian Research in Philanthropy Awards (IRPAs), February 2015 UNIVERSITY SERVICE - Board of director, elected by the Assistants of Law, 10/2004 9/2006 - Academic Senate, elected by the Associates of Law, 10/2007 9/2009 - Academic Senate, elected by the Associates of Law, 10/2010 9/2012 - Board of director, elected by the Academic Senate, 10/2012 9/2015 - Board member of the School of Ph.D. in Law, University of Verona, 2011-2013 - Board member of the Ph. D. in Right and Economy of Enterprise: Internal and International matters, University of Verona, Italy, 2002-2013 - Member of Evaluation board of AOUI Verona (Integrated hospital), 07/2010 02/2013 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (last four years) 2015 November. 44 rd ARNOVA Annual Conference, Chicago. Abstract accepted: The new era of stakeholder engagement: gaining, regaining and maintaining legitimacy in nonprofit organizations 2015 September 16th-18 th. 8th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business (EMAB), Verona (Italy), Paper accepted: Gaining Legitimacy in Non-Profit Governance. The Role of Stakeholder Engagement. 2015 September 16th-18 th. 8th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business (EMAB), Verona (Italy), Paper accepted: Implementing sustainability in wineries: issues from an Italian case study. 2015 September 3-4. 16th European Conference on Knowledge Management. Paper accepted: "How to Engage Stakeholder Knowledge in Decision -Making". 2
2015 August 19-21. Eighth Accounting History International Conference (8AHIC), Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Paper accepted: Accountability for a place in heaven: a stakeholders portrait in Verona s confraternities 2015 June 11-12. 3rd French CSEAR Conference at ESSEC Business School. Paper accepted: "Disclosure evolution in social and environmental reports: the case of Italian universities" 2014 November. 43 rd ARNOVA Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado. Paper presented: Community engagement in nonprofit governance: evidence from representative board in Italian Bank Foundations 2014 November 5-8 ECOMONDO 2014, 18th International Trade Fair of Material & Energy Recovery and Sustainable Development, Rimini, Italia, paper presented: Measuring performance of municipal solid waste collection services 2014 September. 2nd World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities, EU and Manchester Metropolitan University. Paper presented: Social and environmental reporting in the Italian Higher Education System: Evidence from two best practices 2014 August. 26th CSEAR International Congress, organized by University of St Andrews, Scotland UK. Paper presented: Social and environmental reporting in healthcare: the case of the integrated university hospitals in Italy. 2014 June. Workshop Performance nei servizi sanitari, Università Ca Foscari, Venezia. Paper presented: La ricerca dell efficienza: la Data Envelopment Analysis applicata al Sistema Ospedaliero Veneto. 2014 April. 18 th IRSPM Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Paper presented: Governance in nonprofit organizations and stakeholder engagement: when community representative are on the board 2013 September. 36 th AIDEA International Conference, Lecce, Italy. Paper presented: Managing performance in heathcare: the case of Verona Integrated University Hospital 2012 September. 4 th Italian CSEAR 2012, Levico Terme, Italy. Paper presented: The social reporting in Italian bank foundations 2012 May. WOA, Desperately seeking performance in organizations, Verona, Italy. Paper presented: Does three-year planning regulation impact on the performance of Italian universities? Evidence (from 2004-2010 indicators) and future research implications. TEACHING ACTIVITIES 2004-present. The courses taught have been at the undergraduate and graduate level (Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine, Università degli Studi di Verona): Public Management, Nonprofit Accounting and Management, Health management, Organization. 1997-2004 The courses taught have been at the undergraduate level (Faculty of Economy, Università degli Studi di Udine): Financial accounting. 3
MAIN PUBLICATIONS Books 2014. Board Governance in Bank Foundations (con C. Leardini e S. Moggi), Springer Verlag [recensione in: D. Vrontis, (2014) Board Governance in Bank Foundations the Italian Experience, EuroMed Journal of Business, Vol. 9, Iss: 3, pp.333 334]. 2012. L'autonomia nelle decisioni aziendali, Giappichelli: Turin. 2011. Genere, territorio e programmazione. Un opportunità per l azienda pubblica locale (with G. Rossi), Rirea aziende: Rome 2009. La misurazione dei risultati aziendali. La valorizzazione dell'utilità prodotta in assenza di corrispettivo, Giappichelli: Turin. 2008. L azienda convento nei registri contabili di Santa Maria della Scala a Verona. 1345-1355 (with G. Alberti and G. Rossi), Cedam: Padua 2007. Aspetti critici del bilancio di esercizio delle fondazioni di origine bancaria, Rirea: Rome 2005. L'amministrazione della fondazione bancaria, Cedam: Padua 2003. Economia della quotazione in borsa Profili economico-aziendali, Cedam: Padua 2002. L'azienda sanitaria nella prospettiva del knowledge management, Rirea: Rome Referred Journals 2016 Accountability for a place in heaven: a stakeholders portrait in Verona s confraternities, Accounting History (with S. Moggi,V. Filippi and G. Rossi), forthcoming. 2015. Measuring performance of municipal solid wastecollection services (with A. Guerrini and G. Romano), Procedia Environmental Engineering and Management, forthcoming. 2015. Exploring the link between corporate governance and efficiency of Italian water utilities (with G. Romano and A. Guerrini), Water and Landscape, forthcoming. 2015 Measuring the efficiency of wastewater services through Data Envelopment Analysis (with A. Guerrini, G. Romano), Water Science and Technology, forthcoming. 2015. The effects of operational and environmental variables on efficiency of Danish water and wastewater utilities (with A. Guerrini, G. Romano, M. Martini), Water, 7, 3263-3282. 2015. Mandatory or not mandatory reporting? Insights from Italian bank foundations (with S. Moggi and G. Rossi), International Journal of Public Administration, forthcoming. 2015. Toward community engagement in non-profit organizations governance (with G. Rossi, S. Moggi, B. Campedelli), Voluntary Sector Review, Volume 6, number 1, March 2015, pp. 21-40. 4
2014. La performance della rete ospedaliera pubblica della Regione Veneto. L impatto delle variabili ambientali e operative sull efficienza (with B. Campedelli, A. Guerrini, G. Romano,), Mecosan- Management ed Economia Sanitaria, 92, pp.119-131. 2014 Does intellectual capital efficiency affect financial performance? The case of Italian listed firms (with G. Romano and A. Guerrini), Int. J. Learning and Intellectual Capital, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp.127 148. 2013. Accounting and power in religious institutions: Verona s Santa Maria della Scala monastery in the Middle Ages (with G. Rossi), Accounting History, 18(3), pp. 415-427 2011. Fondazioni di origine bancaria e utilità prodotta: verso un sistema di accountability basato su indicatori di utilità sociale (with G. Rossi), Il Risparmio, 1, pp.69-96 2010. I registri di entrata e uscita del convento di Santa Maria della Scala a Verona: l attività di rendicontazione a supporto del controllo e dell amministrazione negli enti religiosi (with G.B. Alberti and C. Leardini), Contabilità e cultura aziendale, X(1), pp. 32-55 2009. Governance e accountability nelle Fondazioni Bancarie (with C. Leardini and C. Todesco), EA2000-International Business Review, 4, pp. 81-95 Book Chapters (with peer review) 2015. Performance Measurement System in Integrated University Hospitals. An Italian case study, (with S. Moggi, A. Suppa and B. Campedelli), Il Mulino, Bologna, forthcoming 2015. The social and environmental reporting in Italian Higher Education System: Evidence from two Italian best practices (with S. Moggi and B.Campedelli), in W.L.Filho, O. Kuznetsova, L. Brandli, A.M.Finisterra do Paco (Editors), Integrative Approaches to Sustainable development at University Level: Making the Links. World Sustainability Series, Springer. 2013. Accountability in Culture: The Italian Experience (with G. Rossi), in O. Alfranca Burriel (ed.), Economics of Culture, Nova Publishers: New York. 2011. Public finance, organisation and gender: the contribution of Italian School Economia Aziendale (with G. Rossi), in M.A. Galindo Martin & C. Nardi Spiller (eds.), Public Finance: Lessons from the Past and Effects on the Future, Nova Publishers: New York. Conference Proceedings 2015 Gaining Legitimacy in Non-Profit Governance. The Role of Stakeholder Engagement, forthcoming, 8th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business (EMAB), Verona (Italy), September 16th-18 th 5
2015. "How to Engage Stakeholder Knowledge in Decision -Making", forthcoming, 16th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Udine (Italy), 3-4 September. 2015 Implementing sustainability in wineries: issues from an Italian case study, forthcoming, 8th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business (EMAB), Verona (Italy), September 16th- 18th 2013. Managing performance in heathcare: the case of Verona Integrated University Hospital (with S. Moggi, Suppa A. and B. Campedelli), 36th AIDEA International Conference, Lecce (Italy), 19-20-21 September 2012. Does three-year planning regulation impact on the performance of Italian universities? Evidence (from 2004-2010 indicators) and future research implications (with S. Cantele and B. Campedelli), WOA - Desperately seeking performance in organizations", Verona, 28-29 maggio 2012. Other (Book chapter) 2015. L assistenza, la didattica e la ricerca attraverso gli atti aziendali delle aziende ospedaliere universitarie integrate italiane, in C. Leardini, G.A. Sala, B.Campedelli, L azienda ospedaliera universitaria integrata. Un modello di integrazione tra attività di cura, ricerca e formazione, Franco Angeli, (Collana: Economia delle Aziende e delle Amministrazioni Pubbliche), pp.138-165 2012. L'Ordine dei Servi di Maria: storia e organizzazione, in C. Leardini, G. Rossi, S. Cantele, V. Filippi & S. Moggi, Contabilità e Ordine generale dei Servi di Maria nel Medioevo. Il peculiare ruolo delle rilevazioni attraverso i Registri dei Priori generali, Rirea: Rome 2010. L'accountability esterna per il settore Arte, attività e beni culturali, in C. Leardini & G. Rossi (eds.), Fondazioni bancarie, arte e cultura. Ruolo, risultati e prospettive alla luce di un analisi territoriale, Franco Angeli: Milan 2010. Le erogazioni in arte e cultura delle fondazioni del Triveneto, in C. Leardini & G. Rossi (eds.), Fondazioni bancarie, arte e cultura. Ruolo, risultati e prospettive alla luce di un analisi territoriale, Franco Angeli: Milan 2010. La rendicontazione dei risultati in Arte, attività e beni culturali, in C. Leardini & G. Rossi (eds.), Fondazioni bancarie, arte e cultura. Ruolo, risultati e prospettive alla luce di un analisi territoriale, Franco Angeli: Milan 2007. Il bilancio consolidato dell'ente locale in M. Mulazzani & S. Pozzoli, Revisione e controllo negli enti locali, Franco Angeli: Milan. 2007. Programmazione e controllo nelle società di servizi pubblici locali in V. Domenichelli & G. Sala, Servizi Pubblici e società private. Quali regole?, Cedam: Padua. 2006. L'opportunità strategica della quotazione in borsa in M. Mulazzani M., I servizi pubblici locali di distribuzione del gas, Franco Angeli, Milan. 6
2006. L'azienda Regione, in M. Mulazzani, Economia delle Aziende e delle Amministrazioni Pubbliche, vol. Vol. II, Cedam: Padua. 2005. Privatizzazione dei servizi pubblici locali e scelta di quotazione in borsa, in M. Mulazzani & S. Pozzoli. Le aziende dei servizi pubblici locali, Maggioli, Rimini. 2004. I meccanismi operativi dell'azienda sanitaria nella prospettiva del knowledge management, in: Knowledge management e successo aziendale. vol. 1, Udine:Arti Grafiche Friulane. (Journal) 2008. La funzione professionale di revisione negli enti locali nel sistema generale dei controlli (with M. Mulazzani), in Rivista Il controllo delle società e degli enti, Giuffrè: Milan. 2006. Aspetti previsionali, consuntivi e di controllo nella gestione dei patrimoni destinati ad uno specifico affare (with M. Zamboni), in Rivista Il controllo delle società e degli enti, Giuffrè, Milan. 2005. Il controllo dell'utilità negli enti locali, in Rivista Il controllo delle società e degli enti, Giuffrè, Milan. 2002. Organizzazione e controllo nelle aziende sanitarie, in Rivista Il Nuovo Management, Franco Angeli, Milan. 2000. Forma giuridica e riprogettazione organizzativa nelle aziende Municipalizzate, in Rivista Il Nuovo Management, Franco Angeli, Milan. 1998. Riflessioni sull'aziendalità del servizio pubblico locale, in Rivista Italiana di Ragioneria e di Economia Aziendale, vol. 4, RIREA, Rome. 1997. Il concetto di controllo nella dottrina economico aziendale in Rivista Italiana di Ragioneria e di Economia Aziendale, vol. 4, RIREA, Rome. 7