2005 PhD in Business Administration and Strategies at the University of Milano-Bicocca (with a dissertation on Ethical Investors ).

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1 June 2013 Silvana Signori Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods University of Bergamo Via dei Caniana, Bergamo - Italy silvana.signori@unibg.it E D U C A T I O N 2005 PhD in Business Administration and Strategies at the University of Milano-Bicocca (with a dissertation on Ethical Investors ) University degree in Economics and Business Administration (Economia e Commercio) at the University of Bergamo (110/110 cum laude). C U R R E N T P O S I T I O N S Tenured Assistant Professor (ricercatore researcher) in Business Administration at the University of Bergamo. Holder of the chair of Accounting and lecturer in Business Ethics and Social Accounting at the University of Bergamo. Independent member of the Board of Directors of Etica sgr (Milan). Founder member and executive secretary of the Italian chapter of EBEN (European Business Ethics Network). Member of the scientific board of CYFE (Centre for Young and Family Enterprises) University of Bergamo. Founder member and co-director of Osservatorio CORES ((Research group on Networks and Practices of Sustainable Economy). P R E V I O U S P O S I T I O N S Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Bergamo representing the Assistant Professors today lecturer in Business Ethics and Social Accounting at the University of Bergamo 1

2 1996 today lecturer in Accounting and Business Administration at the University of Bergamo Employee and, from 1998 to 2002, Administrative manager of a service centre for cooperatives and non profit organizations (Consorzio ACLI Ce.S.A.C. Coop a r.l. Bergamo) R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S The main areas of research concern ethical investments, business ethics and corporate social responsibility, non-profit organization accounting and accountability. R E S E A R C H F U N D I N G Principal researcher on projects co-funded by the University of Bergamo, regarding: 2012 Values and market. Analysis of virtuous practices for a long term sustainability 2011 Ethics and economic choices: a view of the civil and solidarity market economy 2010 Ethics and business choices 2008 CSR and Italian Economia Aziendale Associate researcher on projects co-funded by the University of Bergamo, concerning: 2012 Values and the market: analysis of virtuous practices for a long term sustainability 2012 Sustainability and the social & environmental accounting and reporting: values, practices and tools (project leader: prof. M. Contrafatto) 2012 Society wellbeing as the aim of public and private actions: principles, politics and operative tools. (project leader: Prof.ssa G. Galizzi) 2012 Value creation for stakeholders: business administration, ethics, social responsibility and measurement. (project leader: prof. G. Rusconi) 2011 Innovation and accountability for state owned, public, private, for profit and non profit organizations: between cooperation and competition. (project leader: Prof.ssa G. Galizzi) 2011 Ethics, corporate social responsibility and accountability and stakeholder approach (project leader: prof. G. Rusconi) 2011 Social and environmental reporting (project leader: prof. M. Contrafatto) 2010 Stakeholder theory/ies, corporate social responsibility and accountability (project leader: prof. G. Rusconi) 2009 Ethics, corporate social responsibility and stakeholders: fundamentals and critical points (project leader: prof. G. Rusconi) 2009 Corporate social responsibility and accountability: theory and practice (project leader: prof. M. Contrafatto) 2

3 2009 Innovation and accountability: overviews from the Italian Economia Aziendale for state owned, public, private, for profit and non profit organizations (project leader: Prof.ssa G. Galizzi) 2008 Ethics and CSR: concepts and applications (project leader: prof. G. Rusconi) Ethics, Social Responsibility and Social Accounting in Italy (project leader: prof. G. Rusconi); 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility and accountability (project leader: prof. G. Rusconi); 2005 Social accounting as informative and managerial tool of corporate social responsibility (project leader: prof. G. Rusconi); 2002 Theoretical developments and applications of social accounting to enterprises (project leader: prof. G. Rusconi); 1997 Ethical Finance: Ethics of Saving and Investing (project leader: prof. M. Masini); Associate researcher on projects funded by external bodies, concerning: Since 2007: participant and referent for Italy of a comparative international study concerning small business leaders perception of related CSR and business ethics concepts. Project leaders: Yves Fassin and Annick Von Rossem Ghent University/Leuven University (Belgium). The project has been partially financed by EBEN European Business Ethics Network Grant co-writer and co-principal investigator of the project Non solo cibo. Mercato & Reti per un futuro sostenibile (Not only food. Market & Network for a sustainable future), promoted by Associazione Mercato&Cittadinanza and funded by Cariplo Foundation (Milan, Italy). Award, grants and honors 2011 Award won from the University of Bergamo for the paper Ethical Thinking in Traditional Italian Economia Aziendale and the Stakeholder Management Theory: The Search for Possible Interactions, published in Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 89, Supplement 3 / November, 2009 (with Gianfranco Rusconi) The paper Small-business Owner-managers Perceptions of CSR and businessrelated Ethical Concepts: A European cross-cultural comparative Analysis has been selected as one of the Best papers to be published in Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (ISSN ; AN ), (with Fassin, Y., Van Rossem, A., Von Hoivik, H., Schlierer, H., Werner, A., Garriga, E.) Award from the Department of Business Administration (University of Bergamo) for research activity. R E S E A R C H O R S T U D Y G R O U P S 2012 Founder of Osservatorio Cores a multidisciplinary research group on consumerism, networks and practices of sustainable economies ( 3

4 Since 2008 member of EBEN SRI platform on Socially Responsible Investing participant and referent for Italy of an International research group for a Comparative international study concerning small business leaders perception of related CSR and business ethics concepts. Project leaders: Yves Fassin and Annick Von Rossem Ghent University/Leuven University (Belgium) participant in a research group for the drawing up of the Guideline for social and mission accounting of associations, sponsored by CSV.net, Fondazione FEO-FIVOL and IREF participant in a research group for the drawing up of a research document on the social accounting of non profit organizations (GBS Study Group on social accounting). M E M B E R S H I P S / A F F I L I A T I O N S Founder member and executive secretary of the Italian chapter of EBEN European Business Ethics Network. Member of GBS Study Group on Social Reporting. Member of AIDEA Youth Italian Academy of Business Administration (Youth) Member of SIDREA Italian Society of accounting C O N F E R E N C E P R E S E N T A T I O N S A N D O R G A N I Z A T I O N National conferences, workshops and seminars 18-19/11/2011 (Cagliari) XVI convegno annuale AIDEA Giovani La creazione di Valore: aspetti critici e problematiche di misurazione. Presentation of the paper: La customer satisfaction nelle associazioni di promozione sociale: il ruolo della responsabilità sociale e della sua comunicazione (with: Daniela Andreini e Giusepp Pedeliento) /05/2011 (Milan) IRIS Network - Colloquio scientifico annuale sull impresa sociale. Presentation of the paper: Sistemi di welfare e accountability nelle aziende non profit: alcune riflessioni sulle prospettive future /06/2009 (Gorizia) XIV Convegno annuale AIDEA Giovani L azienda e i suoi stakeholder. Presentation of the paper: Ethical thinking in traditional Italian economia aziendale and stakeholder management theory: looking for possible interactions (with Gianfranco Rusconi). 5/12/2008 (Piacenza - Italy) II Workshop on Social Economy organized by CESPEM Centro Studi Politica Economica e Monetaria MARIO ARCELLI Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore e Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Presentation on: Promoting Socially responsible Investments: Which role for NPO s? The case of Italy 4

5 24-25/03/2006 (Pescara-Italy) XI Convegno Annuale AIDEA Giovani La responsabilità sociale negli studi economico aziendali. Presentation of the paper: Implicazioni aziendali delle scelte di investimento socialmente responsabile. International conferences, workshops and seminars 6-8/05/2013 (Geneve, Switzerland) United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Conference on Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy. Presentation of the paper: Beyond Alternative Food Networks: An Agenda for Comparative Analysis of Italy's Solidarity Purchase Groups (SPG) and Districts of Solidarity Economy vis-à-vis US Community Economies (with Cristina Grasseni e Francesca Forno). Paper presented by Cristina Grasseni /09/2012 (Barcelona, Spain) 25th EBEN Annual Conference Work, virtues and flourishing. Better people, better organizations, better societies. Presentation of the paper: New consumer organizations for a sustainable future. The case of GAS Gruppi di Acquisto Solidali (Solidarity Purchase Groups) (with Francesca Forno e Cristina Grasseni) /06/2012 (Berlin, Germany), The 37th Annual Meeting of the Macromarketing Society.. Presentation of the paper: The Customer Satisfaction in a Non Profit Context: the Role of Social Responsibility and its Communication (with Andreini D., Pedeliento G.). Paper presented by D. Andreini. 7-9/06/2012 (Newcastle, UK), 2012 EBEN Research Conference Accountability, transparency, sustainability. Presentation of the papers: The Customer Satisfaction in a Non Profit Context: the Role of Corporate Social Responsibility (with Daniela Andreini e Giuseppe Pedeliento) and New consumer organizations for a sustainable future. The case of GAS Gruppi di Acquisto Solidali (Solidarity Purchase Groups) (with Francesca Forno e Cristina Grasseni). 7/06/2012 (Rotterdam), 12th EURAM Conference. Presentation of the paper The Customer Satisfaction in a Non-Profit Context: the Role of Corporate Social Responsibility and of Its Communication (with Daniela Andreini e Giuseppe Pedeliento). Presented by the co-author Giuseppe Pedeliento. 9-11/09/2010 (Trento) 23rd EBEN Annual Conference Which Values for Which Organisations. Presentation of the paper: Exploring ethical investors motivations: the case of the Tomasoni Organic dairy. 6-10/08/2010 (Montreal, Canada) Academy of Management Annual Meeting Dare to Care: Passion & Compassion in Management Practice & Research. Presentation of the paper: Sense-making of CSR and business ethics related concepts by small business leaders - A comparative international analysis (with Yves Fassin, Annick Van Rossem, Heidi Hoivik, Hans-Jörg Schlierer, Andrea Werner, Elisabet Garriga). Presented by the co-author Yves Fassin. This paper was selected for publication in Best Papers Proceedings. 1-2/07/2010 (Bergamo) 3rd Bergamo-Wharton Joint Conference on Business Ethics Stakeholder Theory(ies): Ethical Bases And Managerial Applications. Presentation of the paper: How do European SME owner-directors make sense of Stakeholder Management?- Insights from a cross-national study (with Hans-Jörg Schlierer, Andrea Werner, Elisabet Garriga, Yves Fassin, Annick Van Rossem, Heidi von Weltzien Hoivik) 5

6 19-22/05/2010 (Rome) 10th EURAM Conference Back to the Future. Presentation of the paper: An international Comparative Analysis of European SME Leaders Sense-Making of CSR and Business Ethics related concepts (with Yves Fassin, Annick Van Rossem, Heidi Hoivik, Hans-Jörg Schlierer, Andrea Werner, Elisabet Garriga) /05/2010 (Barcelona-Spain ) IESE Business School. The 16th International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society Facing the crisis: towards a new humanistic synthesis. Presentation of the paper: Exploring ethical investors motivations: the case of the Biocaseificio Tomasoni /09/09 (Barcelona-Spain ) EABIS European Academy of Business in Society Annual Colloquium. Presentation of the paper: A comparative international analysis of Sensemaking of CSR and business ethics related concepts by small business leaders in four European countries (with Yves Fassin, Annick Van Rossem, Heidi Hoivik, Hans-Jörg Schlierer). Presented by the co-author Yves Fassin /09/09 (Athens Greece ) EBEN (European Business Ethics Network) Annual Conference: Pathos for Ethics. Presentation of the paper: Sense-making of CSR and business ethics related concepts by small business leaders - A comparative international analysis (with Yves Fassin, Annick Van Rossem, Heidi Hoivik, Hans-Jörg Schlierer). 7-11/08/2009 (Chicago-USA) AOM Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Presentation of the paper An International Comparative Analysis of Sense-making of Social Issues in Management by SME leaders in Belgium and Italy (with Yves Fassin - Ghent University & Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School and Annick Van Rossem Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School). Presented by the co-author Yves Fassin. 1-3/07/2009 (Forlì) 1st International Conference on sustainable management of public and not for profit organisations (SMOG). Presentation of the paper: In search of coherence: socially responsible investments, a choice, an opportunity or duty? Some first insights from Italian Foundations. 3-4/04/2009 (Naples) 9th AIDEA Youth International Workshop Corporate Governance, information and control in an evolutionary context. Presentation of the paper: Ethical thinking in traditional Italian Economia Aziendale and Stakeholder Management Theory: looking for possible interactions (with Gianfranco Rusconi) /06/2007 (Bergamo) EBEN (European Business Ethics Network) Research Conference Finance & Society In Ethical Perspective. Presentation of the paper: Socially responsible investments: what really matters? /09/2007 (Leuven-Belgium) EBEN (European Business Ethics Network) Annual Conference The European Identity in Business and Social Ethics. Presentation of the paper: Stakeholder Management Theory: a View from the Italian Economia Aziendale. Paper presented by the co-author Gianfranco Rusconi /09/2006 (Bergamo) 1st Italian CSEAR Conference Social and Environmental Accounting Research. Presentation of the research proposal: The adoption of social reporting for non profit institutions: organizational effects. 6

7 Guest Speaker Presentations 12/11/2011 (Bergamo) Opening speach to the conference: "Finanza e armamenti: la responsabilità sociale degli istituto di credito nel commercio delle armi". 6/11/2010 (Treviglio BG) Conference Questioni attuali in tema di rendicontazione e tassazione degli enti non profit. Presentation on : Riflessioni sulle diverse proposte di rendicontazione sociale per gli enti non profit. 15/10/2009 (Bergamo) Seminar Una questione di valori organized by the University of Bergamo in collaboration with EBEN Italia and Gruppo Giovani Imprenditori of Confindustria Bergamo. Presentation of the findings of the International research on Sense-making on CSR and business ethics related concepts by small business leaders- A comparative International analysis. 22/06/2009 (Bergamo) 2nd Bergamo-Wharton Joint Conference on Business Ethics. Presentation on: Exploring ethical investors motivations: the case of the Bio-caseificio Tomasoni. 13/05/2009 (Padua) Seminar organized by Etica Sgr: I Fondi Etici: uno strumento di innovazione per una finanza responsabile. Nuovi stimoli per un economia competitiva e sostenibile. Presentation on: Efficacia ed efficienza nell azione dell investitore etico. 7-21/02/2008 (Treviglio BG) Corso di Alta formazione "Nonprofit. Gestione di organizzazioni non profit e progettazione sociale". Presentation on: Approccio strategico e sistemi di rendicontazione nelle organizzazioni non profit. 1/02/2008 (Rome) Il bilancio di missione e sociale per le organizzazioni di volontariato presentazione di una proposta di linee guida. Organized by CSV.NET, IREF and Fondazione FEO-FIVOL. C O N F E R E N C E O R G A N I Z A T I O N Referent for the organization and scientific secretary of the EBEN (European Business Ethics Network) International research conference on Finance & Society In Ethical Perspective held at the University of Bergamo, June Referent for the organization and scientific secretary of the 3rd Bergamo - Wharton Joint Conference on Business Ethics entitled Stakeholder Theory(ies): Ethical Bases And Managerial Applications, held at the University of Bergamo, July Member of the organizing committee of the EBEN (European Business Ethics Network) Annual Conference 2010 entitled Which Values for Which Organisations, held in Trento in September R E V I E W A C T I V I T I E S Reviewer: - Journal of Business Ethics - Business Ethics: A European Review - Economia Aziendale 2000 Web 7

8 - Azienda Pubblica - Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment - ImpresaProgetto Eletronic Journal of Management Conference reviewer: - EBEN 2007 Research Conference (Bergamo, June 2007) - EBEN 2009 Annual Conference (Athens, September 2009) - 3rd Bergamo-Wharton Joint Conference on Business Ethics (Bergamo, July 2010) P U B L I C A T I O N S Books - Gli investitori etici: implicazioni aziendali. Problemi e prospettive. For the series of the Department of Business Administration of the University of Bergamo, Giuffrè Editore, Milan (Italy), Edited books and special issues - Stakeholder Theory(ies): Ethical Ideas and Managerial Action (edited by Freeman E.R., Rusconi G., Signori S., Strudler A.), special issue of Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 109, issue 1, p. 1-2, Responsible Investment in Times of Turmoil (edited by Vandekerckhove, W.; Leys, J.; Scholtens, B.; Signori, S.; Schäfer, H.), Series: Issues in Business Ethics, Vol. 31, Springer, London, UK and New York, USA. ISBN (hardback), (e-book). - Etica e finanza (Silvana Signori, Gianfranco Rusconi and Michele Dorigatti, Editors), for the series Persona, Imprese e Società, Vol. 4., FrancoAngeli Srl, Milan (Italy), Articles and chapters of books (of national relevance) - SRI e influenza sul comportamento delle imprese: il caso dell engagement, in Creare valore a lungo termine. Conoscere, promuovere e gestire l investimento sostenibile e responsabile (D. Dal Maso and G. Fiorentini, eds). EGEA, Milano, 2013 (ISBN ), pp Responsabilità, accountability e sostenibilità aziendale: alcune riflessioni (with Massimo Contrafatto), in Saggi di storia delle discipline aziendali e delle dottrine economiche. Scritti in onore di Antonio Amaduzzi Professore Emerito (Claudia Rossi, Gianfranco Rusconi and Stefania Servalli, eds.) Rirea, 2012 (IBAN: ), pp Sistemi di welfare e accountability delle aziende non profit: verso una rendicontazione condivisa e partecipata dei servizi alla persona, in Azienda Pubblica, Vol. 4, 2012, p Responsabilità sociale e azienda non profit: quale declinazione? (with Gianfranco Rusconi) in Impresa Sociale, n. 1 Vol. 78, January/March

9 - Efficienza ed efficacia nelle scelte di investimento socialmente responsabile in ImpresaProgetto, n.1/2006, at: - Accountability e bilancio sociale nella nuova normativa sull impresa sociale (with Giovanni Stiz) in Enti non profit, Ipsoa Editore, n. 10/ Chiacchierando con Edward Freeman in Non Profit, Maggioli Editore, Year XI January/March, 2005 (with M.Gabriella Baldarelli and Matteo Santi). - La CGIL di Bergamo. L essere e il divenire di una azienda di promozione e tutela: mission e governance (with Gianfranco Rusconi) in Non Profit, Maggioli Editore, Year IX July/September, Le MAG, cooperative di mutua autogestione in La fionda di Davide Verso una finanza etica, Aldo Cattaneo, Daniele Rocchetti and Giovanni Stiz (Eds), Alfazeta, Parma (Italy), Il settore non profit: cosa è e perché finanziarlo in La fionda di Davide Verso una finanza etica, Aldo Cattaneo, Daniele Rocchetti and Giovanni Stiz (Eds), Alfazeta, Parma (Italy), Finanza etica: tipologie di intervento e analisi di tre banche (with Laura Viganò). Working paper ( quaderno ) of the Department of Business Administration of the University of Bergamo, n. 1, Articles and chapters of books (of international relevance) - How Do European SME Owner-Managers Make Sense Of Stakeholder Management? Insights from a cross-national study, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 109, issue 1, 2012, p (with Schlierer, H., Werner, Signori S. Garriga, E., Von Hoivik, Van Rossem, A., Fassin, Y.). - Non-profit Organizations and Socially Responsible Investments: a possible alliance. The case of Italian Foundations in Economia Aziendale Online 2000 web, vol. 3, 2010, p Small-business Owner-managers Perceptions of CSR and business-related Ethical Concepts: A European cross-cultural comparative Analysis in Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (ISSN ; AN ), 2010 (with Fassin, Y., Van Rossem, A., Von Hoivik, H., Schlierer, H., Werner, A., Garriga, E.). - Ethical (SRI) funds in Italy: a review in Business Ethics: A European Review, April 2009, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p Ethical Thinking in Traditional Italian Economia Aziendale and the Stakeholder Management Theory: The Search for Possible Interactions, Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 89, Supplement 3 / November, 2009 (with Gianfranco Rusconi), p

10 Conference proceedings (with ISBN) - The Customer Satisfaction in a Non Profit Context: the Role of Social Responsibility and its Communication (with Andreini D., Pedeliento G.), in Proceedings of the 37th Macromarketing Conference (Berlin, Germany), p , Macromarketing Society, Inc., 2012: (ISBN: ). - La customer satisfaction nelle associazioni di promozione sociale: il ruolo della responsabilità sociale e della sua comunicazione, paper presented at the XVI convegno annuale AIDEA Giovani La creazione di Valore: aspetti critici e problematiche di misurazione, Cagliari November 2011 (with D. Andreini and G. Pedeliento) (ISBN ). 10