Ghio Alessandro | ESCP Business School

Alessandro Ghio

Associate Professor of Diversity and Social Accounting

Department : Performance Measurement & Management
Campus : Paris

Alessandro Ghio is an Associate Professor in the Performance Measurement and Management Department. Their research focuses on issues related to diversity in accounting (in particular, about sexuality, gender, and age), and corporate social media communication.

Alessandro has published in several leading academic journals, including Journal of Management Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, AUDITING, Journal of Business Ethics, and Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and co-authored three books. Alessandro is an editor of Accounting Horizons and associate editor at The British Accounting Review, and a board member of Accounting in Europe, Accounting Forum, Accounting Perspectives, Comptabilité Contrôle Audit and European Management Journal.

They received the prestigious Global Award 'Ideas Worth Teaching' by the Aspen Institute (NYC, USA). Alessandro is passionate about academic activism and they are the co-instigator of the projects “Queering Accounting” and “Working Women and wellbeing”. They have led and/or taken key roles in competitive research funded projects equating to over one million euros. They are regularly invited by the accounting professional bodies, Big4 and universities to develop and facilitate workshops and consult on diversity in business.

Prior to joining ESCP, Alessandro has been tenured faculty staff at Université Laval (Québec, Canada) and Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), and they have been a controller in a large telecommunication organization, a consultant for the Italian Ministry of Education on social mobility in education, and a visiting scholar at Indiana University (USA). They served on the Financial Authority Market (Québec) - Financial Reporting Advisory Committee.

Alessandro holds an HDR from Université Paris-Saclay, a Ph.D. in accounting from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France) and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy).

PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS AND HONORS

Journal Article

2021

ANDREICOVICI, I., N. COHEN, S. FERRAMOSCA, A. GHIO

Two Wrongs Make a ‘Right’? Exploring the Ethical Calculus of Earnings Management Before Large Labor Dismissals

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, 2021, vol. 172, no. 2, pp. 379-405

Journal Article

2020

GARCIA-PEREZ, A., A. GHIO, Z. OCCHIPINTI, R. VERONA

Knowledge management and intellectual capital in knowledge-based organisations: a review and theoretical perspectives

JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, 2020, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1719-1754

Book

2020

GHIO, A., R. VERONA

The Evolution of Corporate Disclosure

Springer International Publishing, 2020

Journal Article

2019

GHIO, A., M. RUBERTI, R. VERONA

Financial constraints on sport organizations’ cost efficiency: the impact of financial fair play on Italian soccer clubs

APPLIED ECONOMICS, 2019, vol. 51, no. 24, pp. 2623-2638

Book

2018

FERRAMOSCA, S., A. GHIO

Accounting Choices in Family Firms

Springer International Publishing, 2018

Journal Article

2018

GHIO, A., R. VERONA

Accounting Practitioners' Attitudes toward Accounting Harmonization: Adoption of IFRS for SMEs in Italy

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, 2018, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 103-122

Journal Article

2018

FERRAMOSCA, S., A. GHIO

Leveraging intellectual capital in developing countries: evidence from Kenya

JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, 2018, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 562-580

Journal Article

2018

MCGUIGAN, N., A. GHIO

Queering accounting: opening up and connecting professional services firms

Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 2018, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 625-635

Journal Article

2015

GHIO, A., R. VERONA

Accounting harmonization in the BRIC countries: A common path?

ACCOUNTING FORUM, 2015, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 121-139

Research Medal

2023

Laval Univesity

Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Instructional Contribution Award

2022

American Accounting Association

Research medal

2022

Laval Univesity

Research medal

2021

Laval Univesity

Best Paper Award at the American Accounting Association

2021

Diversity Section

Best Paper Award at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Association Conference

2021

Education Stream

ITC Bonelli Distinguished Alumni Award

2021

Best Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Silver Award

2021

Association of MBAs (AMBA)

Emerald 2020 Literati Award

2021

Award for the paper “Art, accounting and technology: unravelling the paradoxical “in-between

Dean’s Award for Early Career Teaching Excellence

2020

Monash University

Best Paper Award at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Association Conference

2020

Management Accounting Stream

Chancellor’s Diversity and Inclusion Award

2019

Monash University Vice

Aspen Institute Global Award “Ideas Worth Teaching”

2019

NYC, USA

Dean’s PRME Education Award

2019

Monash Business School

Nomination and Participation to the 2019 CPA Australia Emerging Scholar Forum

2019

First-prize at the Poster Competition of the Accounting Week

2019

Monash University

Best Paper Award at the 13th World Congress for Accounting Educators and Researchers IAAER

2018

University of Sydney

AAA/Deloitte/J. Cook Fellowship

2017

Best paper award in Accounting

2016

BPF Conference

Honors Student (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)

2008-2012

Italian Ministry of Education

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Journal Article

2021

Two Wrongs Make a ‘Right’? Exploring the Ethical Calculus of Earnings Management Before Large Labor Dismissals

Journal Article

2020

Knowledge management and intellectual capital in knowledge-based organisations: a review and theoretical perspectives

Book

2020

The Evolution of Corporate Disclosure

Journal Article

2019

Financial constraints on sport organizations’ cost efficiency: the impact of financial fair play on Italian soccer clubs

Book

2018

Accounting Choices in Family Firms

Journal Article

2018

Accounting Practitioners' Attitudes toward Accounting Harmonization: Adoption of IFRS for SMEs in Italy

Journal Article

2018

Leveraging intellectual capital in developing countries: evidence from Kenya

Journal Article

2018

Queering accounting: opening up and connecting professional services firms

Journal Article

2015

Accounting harmonization in the BRIC countries: A common path?

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Research Medal

2023

Laval Univesity

Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Instructional Contribution Award

2022

American Accounting Association

Research medal

2022

Laval Univesity

Research medal

2021

Laval Univesity

Best Paper Award at the American Accounting Association

2021

Diversity Section

Best Paper Award at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Association Conference

2021

Education Stream

ITC Bonelli Distinguished Alumni Award

2021

Best Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Silver Award

2021

Association of MBAs (AMBA)

Emerald 2020 Literati Award

2021

Dean’s Award for Early Career Teaching Excellence

2020

Monash University

Best Paper Award at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Association Conference

2020

Management Accounting Stream

Chancellor’s Diversity and Inclusion Award

2019

Monash University Vice

Aspen Institute Global Award “Ideas Worth Teaching”

2019

NYC, USA

Dean’s PRME Education Award

2019

Monash Business School

Nomination and Participation to the 2019 CPA Australia Emerging Scholar Forum

2019

First-prize at the Poster Competition of the Accounting Week

2019

Monash University

Best Paper Award at the 13th World Congress for Accounting Educators and Researchers IAAER

2018

University of Sydney