1st Edition

Accounting, Accountability and Crisis Management Lessons from Italy's Pandemic Response

Edited By Ericka Costa, Massimo Contrafatto, Lee Parker Copyright 2025
268 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Conventional economic and accounting systems have been exposed by the limitations of market-driven mechanisms, where public services, education and healthcare have been subordinated to profit, exacerbating the inequalities between people and countries. Italy was one of the earliest countries to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and also one of the hardest-hit. The successes and failures of the... Read more

Accounting, Accountability and Crisis Management: An Overview of the Book Part I: Pandemics and Challenges for Business and Organisations 1. Accounting and accountability for pandemics. Emerging themes and future implications 2. Covid-19 outbreak and the rethinking of the capitalism. A paradigmatic shift starting from the Italian Economia Aziendale 3. Business model rethinking. A reaction against extraordinary events in business scenario Part II: Accounting and Accountability for Pandemics 4. Accounting and accountability for governing extraordinary events 5. Going Concern Assessment and Related Disclosure During the Pandemic: Evidence from the “Most Impacted” Italian Firms 6. Management control for extraordinary and extreme events Part III: Pandemics, Accounting and Accountability in Divergent Contexts 7. Public accountability challenges and pandemic: what's beyond numbers? 8. Social Distance, Accounting and Accountability in NPOs 9. Pandemics and Accounting Education – a student perspective 10. Challenges in sustainability accounting education after the Covid-19 pandemic. Some pedagogical tips 11. Pandemic and management accounting change in the business context: empirical evidence from Italy 12. Accounting, Accountability and Crisis Management: Lessons Learnt from COVID-19 in Italy

Biography

Ericka Costa is Full Professor of Accounting, at the University of Trento, Italy.

Massimo Contrafatto is Reader in Accounting at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

Lee Parker is Research Professor in Accounting at the Adam Smith School of Business, the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.