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Francesca Rossignoli is Associate Professor in Accounting. She achieved her Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of Verona in 2011. She is currently member of the Business Administration Department, of the Teaching Committee in Business and in Business Administration. Since 2014 she has been coordinating the Erasmus international exchange program with the University of Valencia. Since 2009 she has been member of the American Accounting Association. Since 2010 she has been reviewer for some editions of the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting and since 2013 she has been reviewer for the journal Financial Reporting.
The main research interests are:
- financial accounting
- corporate governance
- entrepreneurship in SMEs
She publishes mainly in academic journals both national and international.
She manages several research projects founded by the Polo Scientifico Didattico Studi sull’Impresa (Vicenza) pertaining entrepreneurship and governance of local companies.
She has participated at the research project “Progetto di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale PRIN 2009” about governance. Since 2009 to 2013 she participated at a research project founded by the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) about the consolidation choices in worldwide listed companies. As an output of that project the paper B.K. Behn, A.K. Beck, A. Lionzo, F. Rossignoli,
Do Accounting Standards Motivate Strategic Investment Behavior? A Cross-Sectional Comparison of Firm Investment Strategies In the U.S. GAAP and IFRS Reporting Environments has been granted for Best paper award at the
4th Financial Reporting Workshop (2013).
As far as the “Third mission”, she participated as speaker at the workshop “Networks and new aggregation forms” for Enac Lab (Verona) in 2017.