Silvia Cantele has been an Associate Professor of Business administration since April 2017. She received her PhD’s Degree in Business Management and Administration at the University of Verona in 2006. She was certified as a Chartered Accountant and Auditor in 2002.
Her main research interests are:
Her publications are mainly articles in international scientific journals, like Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management, British Food Journal.
Among recent research projects' responsibilities:
She is a member of the editorial board of the journals "Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management", “World review of entrepreneurship, management and sustainable development” and "Businesses", and reviewer for Journal of Business Ethics, Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Intellectual Capital.
In 2015 she obtained the “Best Track Chair Award” at the 8th Euromed Annual Conference.
She has some institutional roles within the University of Verona, such as Coordinator of the Scientific Committee for Sustainability Reporting, member of the Commission of the Universities for Sustainable Development (RUS commission), Sustainability Coordinator for the Department of Management, President of the Master’s Degree in Management and business strategy, Responsible for the "Sustainability Governance Lab" within Loop research centre "Management for circular economy and sustainability".
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Topic | Description | Research area |
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Performance antecedents in firms and impact measurement | Study of antecedents of financial performance in firms belonging to different size and industry clusters. Among analysed determinants there are the effects of internationalisation, innovation, networking and cooperation, or sustainability implementation. The research methodologies are mainly quantitative. |
Performance management
Performance management |
Sustainable business models | Deepening of scientific knowledge on business archetypes/models for sustainability, and also the tools which enable their implementation. Specific case studies of firms which have adopted sustainable management practices, created or converted the business through sustainability innovations, or implemented circular business models or inter-organisational forms of cooperation (business networks for sustainability) are analyzed, mainly through qualitative methodologies. |
CSR, sustainability and business ethics
CSR, sustainability and business ethics |
Sustainability reporting and non-financial disclosure in for profit organizations | Analysis of the social, sustainability and non-financial disclosure practices within different clusters of firms. The reporting analysis is conducted through qualitative and quantitative methodologies as well as few techniques (e.g., content analysis, scoring, discourse analysis) and place into relationships with firms’ features, their institutional context, the implementation of some kind of practices, and the attainment of outputs/performance results. |
CSR, sustainability and business ethics
CSR, sustainability and business ethics |
Business networks: antecedents, life-cycle and critical success factors | Analysis of the business networks phenomenon, from the standpoint of antecedents that enables the collaborative strategies and of expected outputs in terms of competitive advantages for firms in the networks. The life-cycle stages and the possibile failure factors that lead to termination or stasis are analysed. The research methodologies consist in interviews, focus groups, but also quantitative analysis. |
Corporate governance and strategy
Corporate governance and strategy |
Planning, control and performance measurement systems in universities | Analysis of the planning, reporting and performance measurement practices of universities. The systems of accounting, strategic planning, budgeting and the indicators dashbords are investigated, put into relationship with the organisations’ features and the institutional context, and analysed with reference to their effectiveness and their impacts on universities’ performance. |
Performance management
Performance management |
Benefit Corporations and B-Corp | Study of the development of the Benefit Corporation in Italy and comparison with the US experiences. The facilitators and the factors that lead companies to change in the statute have been analysed, as well as the costs and obstacles encountered in this process. Special attention is paid to the integration of the "benefit" dimension into the business model and the development of transparency and reporting tools required by the law. The epistemological approach used involves the use of case studies and field studies supported by data collection through interviews, focus groups, and document collection. |
CSR, sustainability and business ethics
CSR, sustainability and business ethics |
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