Fabio LA ROSA
Fabio La Rosa (Palermo, 1978) is a Full Professor of Business Administration at the Department of Law of the University of Catania.
He graduated in 2001 with a degree thesis in Business Administration from the University of Palermo, where he also earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration in January 2006. His doctoral dissertation, “Assets and Financing Allocated to a Specific Venture: Regulatory and Business-Economic Profiles”, won the “G. Ferrero” Award granted by the Italian Academy of Business Administration for the best doctoral thesis in Business Administration defended in Italy during the 2006–2007 period.
He served as a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation within the Department of Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, where he specialized in Risk Management. He was awarded teaching mobility grants under the LLP Erasmus Programme at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal, 2010) and the University of Rzeszów (Poland, 2014). He first served as a Researcher and later as an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Kore University of Enna, where for approximately fifteen years he taught Auditing, Professional Practice, and Corporate Accounting and Financial Statements.
His research interests include Financial Reporting, Corporate Governance, Auditing, Risk Management, Corporate and Organized Crime, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and Business Ethics. He is the author of four monographs, seventeen publications in top-tier (Class A) academic journals, and approximately seventy other scientific and educational contributions in the field of business and management studies.
He is a member of the doctoral faculty board of the international Ph.D. program in Law at the University of Catania and of the Ph.D. program in “Economic, Business and Legal Sciences” at the Kore University of Enna.
He is a Chartered Accountant and Statutory Auditor registered with the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. He is a member of the Italian Society of Accounting and Business Administration Professors and of the Italian Academy of Business Administration. He is also a member of the SIDREA Working Group on Business Valuation and coordinator and principal author of the CNDCEC–SIDREA guidelines on the valuation of seized and confiscated companies. Furthermore, he served as a member of GEV13B (Business Administration Sciences) for the 2015–2019 Research Quality Assessment (VQR).
Fabio La Rosa (Palermo, 1978) is Full Professor of Business Administration at the Department of Law, University of Catania.
He graduated in 2001 with a thesis in Business Administration at the University of Palermo, where he also obtained his PhD in Business Administration in January 2006, with the thesis "Assets and financing for a specific business", which received the prestigious “G. Ferrero” Award by the AIDEA (Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale) for the best PhD thesis in Business Administration discussed in Italy in 2006-2007.
He was a Visiting Scholar at the CARR (Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation) of the Department of Accounting and Finance of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in London, where he studied in depth issues related to Risk Management. He was granted with a scholarship for the LLP Erasmus programme for teachers' mobility abroad at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal, 2010) and the School of Law and Administration of Rzeszow (Poland, 2014). He was first Researcher and then Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Kore University of Enna, where he taught for about 15 years Financial Auditing, Professional Technique and Accounting and Financial Reporting.
His main research interests are Financial Statements, Corporate Governance, Auditing, Risk Management, Corporate and Organised Crime, CSR, Business Ethics. He is author of 4 books, 17 papers in top-journals and about 60 other scientific and teaching contributions (chapters and research papers) in the field of business administration. He is a member of the doctoral committee of the international PhD in Law at the University of Catania and of the PhD in "Economic, business and legal sciences" at the University of Enna "Kore". He is a Chartered Accountant and Auditor registered at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. He is a member of the Italian Society of Teachers of Accounting and Business Administration (SIDREA) and a member of the Italian Academy of Business Administration (AIDEA). He is a member of the SIDREA Working Group on Business Valuation, as well as coordinator and extender of the CNDCEC-SIDREA guidelines on the business valuation of seized and confiscated companies. He is a member of GEV13B (Economic and Business Sciences) for the VQR (National Quality Research Evaluation) for the years 2015-2019.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
January 2025 – Present
Member of the PIA.CE.RI. 2024–2026 Project (University Research Incentive Plan), “Benefits and Costs of the Ecological Transition through the Lens of Legal and Economic Analysis.”
May 2019 – April 2020
Coordinator of the SIDREA–CNDCEC Working Group responsible for drafting the “Guidelines for the Valuation of Seized and Confiscated Companies.”
May 2015 – January 2018
Member of the interdisciplinary research group “Analysis of a Strategic Development Model for Small-Sized Enterprises: Information and Control Systems, Organizational Structures, and Management Practices.”
Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Margherita Poselli, University of Catania.
2017–2018
Member of the international and interdisciplinary research group “Risk, Communication and Society (Riesgo, Comunicación y Sociedad),” directed by Juan Martínez Torvisco of the University of La Laguna and Gevisa La Rocca of Kore University of Enna.
July 2015 – 2016
One-year research contract with the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa on the topic “Gambling and Business Performance in the European Context.”
July 2014 – 2015
One-year research contract with the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa on the topic “Earnings Management and Cost of Capital.”
November 2014
Member of the SIDREA Working Group on “Financial Reporting and Accounting Standards,” chaired by Professors M. Campra and S. Adamo.
November 2013
Scientific Coordinator of the research group at Kore University of Enna on “The Phenomenon of Gambling: An Interdisciplinary Approach.”
January 2013 – Present
Member of the SIDREA Working Group on “Business Valuation,” chaired by Prof. G. Liberatore, University of Florence.
September 2009
Member of the AIDEA Study and Focus Group (GSA) on “XBRL and Continuous Auditing,” coordinated by Prof. S. Zambon, University of Ferrara.
2007
Collaborator in the research project “Value Creation in the Lucca Paper District,” funded by the Lucca Savings Bank Foundation and coordinated by Prof. E. Gonnella, University of Pisa.
2004
Collaborator in the research project “On the Application and Validity of New Corporate Governance Systems within the Stakeholder Approach: What Governance Challenges for the Enterprises of Tomorrow?” coordinated by Prof. S. Tomaselli, University of Palermo.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the Academic Workshop on “Business Model and Business Sustainability,” promoted by AIDEA Giovani and Kore University of Enna, Enna, 19–20 June 2014.
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the Conference “The Integral Development of Enterprises,” promoted by CUSA (University Center for Business Studies), Palermo, 10 November 2006.
PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Invited Presentations (5)
2025
La Rosa, F., “Mafia and Businesses in Business Studies,” presented within the PRIN-PNRR 2022 Seminar “Mafia and Firm Performance: The Effect of Organized Crime and Its Removal,” Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, 5 November 2025.
2024
La Rosa, F., “The 3Ms of Greenwashing: Multidimensionality, Measurement, and Maniacalness,” presentation at the conference “The Anti-Culture of Sustainability: Environmental Crimes and Greenwashing,” organized by the Degree Program in Management for a Sustainable Economy, Ragusa Ibla, 20 June 2024.
2023
La Rosa, F., “The Legality Rating: Motivations and Benefits,” presentation at the conference “The Management of Confiscated Assets,” organized by the Department of Law of LUMSA University, Palermo campus, 20 March 2023.
2022
La Rosa, F., “Sustainability, Information Transparency and Financial Markets,” presentation at the conference “The Sustainable Enterprise,” organized by Professors Marisa Meli and Bruno Caruso, Department of Law, University of Catania, 16 December 2022.
2020
La Rosa, F., “Business and Economic Aspects of Gambling,” paper prepared for the conference “Gaming and Betting through the Lens of Legal Scholarship,” organized by Prof. Pasquale Costanzo, Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law, School of Social Sciences, Department of Law, University of Genoa, 8 May 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19).