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Fabrizio Granà, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Management Control at ESCP Business School, London, UK. Fabrizio has earned a PhD in Accounting at the National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. Further, Fabrizio has been visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, UK; post-doc at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, IT; and Research Assistant at Roehampton University, in London, UK. Fabrizio’s research is interdisciplinary and combines accounting and organization studies with interests in social impact management and reporting.

Giulia Achilli, PhD, is a Lecturer in Accounting at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. She has earned a PhD in Management at LUISS University in Rome, Italy. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, combining accounting, organization studies and sociology with approaches from fine arts and philosophy.

Cristiano Busco, PhD, is a Professor of Accounting and Reporting at Roehampton University, in London, and LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. Cristiano has earned a PhD (accounting) at University of Manchester, UK, and has hold teaching and research positions within US (University of Southern California, LA, and Babson College, Boston), UK (Manchester Business School), Irish (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Italian universities (University of Siena). Cristiano’s research interests are in the field of management accounting, performance measurement, sustainability accounting, as well as integrated thinking and reporting. He published in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Accounting Research, Journal of Management and Governance, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Journal of Accounting and Change and Business Horizons as well as in professional journals such as the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, Strategic Finance and Financial Management.

Maria Federica Izzo, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Università San Raffaele, Rome, Italy, where she teaches Advanced Management Accounting and Business Administration. Previously, she has been an Assistant Professor at LUISS University, visiting scholar at Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University, Houston and research assistant at London Business School. Maria Federica’s research interests are in the field of financial and management accounting, performance measurement, as well as integrated thinking and reporting.