Adrian ZICARI

Associate Professor
department: Accounting and Management Control 
Campus de Cergy
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Sustainability & Social Accounting
Career
Biography

Adrian Zicari is Teaching Professor in the Accounting and Management Control Department of ESSEC Business School, Paris. He is the Academic Director of the Council on Business & Society. Born in Argentina, he holds a doctorate from Universidad Nacional de Rosario. He is interested in measurement practices in sustainability, particularly in the potential of Value-Added Statements as a tool for stakeholder management. His work appears in several academic journals: Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Comptabilité-Contrôle-Audit, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, BMC Health Services Research, among others. He is also honorary representative of Buenos Aires City in Paris.

 

 

Certificates

  • 2024: FSA _ Fundamentals of Sustainability (IFRS United States of America)

Diplomas

  • 2010: Ph.D. in Management (Doctor en Administración) (Universidad Nacional de Rosario Argentina)
  • 1997: Master of Business Administration (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Chile)
  • 1991: Bachelor of Science, Accounting (Universidad Nacional de Rosario Argentina)
Career
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2024 – Now : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2015 – 2024 : Teaching Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2009 – 2015 : Associate Teaching Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
Other Academic Appointments
    • 2024 – 2025 : Academic director of CoBS – Council on Business & Society (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2020 – Now : Responsible for the Management & Society Track (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2019 – 2024 : Academic Director Council on Business & Society (ESSEC Business School France)
Other appointments
    • 2021 – 2022 : Co-Head of the Accounting and Management Control Department (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2017 – 2018 : Center Director (ESSEC Business School France)
Professional appointments
    • 1998 – 2002 : Controller (Hospital Universitario Austral Perez Companc Argentina)
    • 1990 – 1996 : Financial Manager (Sanatorio Parque Argentina)
Distinctions

Awards

  • 2024 : Science & Society Award, ESSEC Foundation
  • 2023 : Prize for Pedagogical Innovation “Daniel Tixier” (Fondation ESSEC)
  • 2020 : Prize for Pedagogical Innovation “Daniel Texier” (Fondation ESSEC)
  • 2013 : 2013 Emerald / CLADEA Latin American Research Highly Commended Award for the paper “Value-added Reporting as a Tool for Sustainability: A Latin American Experience” (coauthored with Luis Perera Aldama)

Grants

  • 2014 : ESSEC Foundation Prix Projet Blanc (Fondation ESSEC)
Research

Journal articles

Book chapters

Presentations at an Academic or Professional conference

Teaching

Thesis jury member

  • 2024 : . (Université de Ratisbonne Germany)
  • 2018 : . (Universidad Nacional de Rosario Argentina)
  • 2015 : . (Universidad Nacional de Rosario Argentina)

Accounting and Management Control 

  • 2023 – Now : CoBS Global Certificate in Responsible Leadership practices, (CoBS – Council on Business & Society France)

Management

  • 2019 – Now : Strategy & Sustainability Simulator, prize-winning course (ESSEC Foundation) (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2017 – Now : Created online course in Responsible Leadership, taught at 800 students per year at MiM level and 800 students at BBA level. (ESSEC Business School France)

Mentoring

  • 2010 – Now : Tutoring : 30 Master Level students tutored
Other activities
Services
    • 2024 – Now: Member of Faculty evaluation committee (elected)
    • 2021 – 2022: Co-Head of Accounting Department
Research activities
  • Senior or Associate Editor
    • 2024 – Now: Issues in Accounting Education
  • Function in an academic association
    • 2017 – 2017: Member Scientific Committee, Congreso Internacional de Docentes e Investigadores en Responsabilidad Social (Universidad Nacional del Litoral Argentina)
  • Editorial Board Membership
    • 2017 – 2017: Editorial board membership – Cuadernos de RSO
    • 2015 – 2015: Editorial board membership – Ciencias Económicas
    • 2012 – Now: Editorial board membership – Management Decision
  • Member of an academic association
    • 2015 – Now: Member of Centre for Social & Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR)
  • Organization of a conference or a seminar
    • 2013 – Now: Secured funding for International Conference at ESSEC: Organizational Control Systems and Stress March 2013, with funding from Ile-de-France Region ( France)
  • Reviewer for a journal
    • Reviewer for Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; Business and Society; Management Decision; Organization; Revue Française de Gestion; Social and Environmental Accountability Journal
Professional activities
  • Member of a professional association, of an expert group or of a board of directors
    • 2020 – Now: European Accounting Association
Theses
  • 2024 : Landis Dra Cristina (Université de Ratisbonne), Thesis jury member, .
  • 2015 : Nadeo Maria M. (Universidad Nacional de Rosario), Thesis jury member, .
  • 2018 : Seródio Servolo Vania (Universidad Nacional de Rosario), Thesis jury member, .