Dr Alvise Favotto

  • Senior Lecturer (Accounting & Finance)

telephone: +44 (0) 141 330 5119
email: Alvise.Favotto@glasgow.ac.uk

Adam Smith Business School, Room 470, Main Building, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149

Biography

Alvise joined the Adam Smith Business School in 2015 as a Lecturer in Management Accounting. Previously, he worked in Political Science at the University of Glasgow, and at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice. In his research, Alvise focuses on management control and governance systems with a particular interest in corporate social responsibility and labour relations.

Research interests

Alvise is a member of the School's Accounting research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

  • Management Control Systems
  • Corporate Accountability
  • Social and Environmental Accounting
  • Corporate political activity
  • Labour rights
  • Public good

Publications

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Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2018 | 2016
Number of items: 19.

2025

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2025) Corporate responsibility and the state: business lobbying on climate change in the UK. Interest Groups and Advocacy, (doi: 10.1057/s41309-025-00230-4) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Aziz, Dalilah, Stoner, Greg ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5435-9324 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2024) Charting futures: Understanding anticipatory professional socialisation practices of prospective accountants within Higher Education. Accounting Education, (doi: 10.1080/09639284.2024.2327633) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Rodrigues, Andre, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2023) Framing risk management within management control systems. In: Rana, Tarek and Parker, Lee (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Public Sector Accounting. Routledge, pp. 189-201. ISBN 9781003295945 (doi: 10.4324/9781003295945-18)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and McMillan, Fraser ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4843-2449 (2023) Responsible lobbyists? In: Lyon, Thomas P. (ed.) Corporate Political Responsibility. Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-187. (doi: 10.1017/9781009420815.010)

Bradley, Lynn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7314-6022, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and McKernan, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2023) Local authority audit in England, playing the field? Financial Accountability and Management, 39(2), pp. 286-303. (doi: 10.1111/faam.12350)

Wilson, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3810-9434 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2023) From seedlings to ships: supply chain and production management in the Venice Arsenale, 1400-1800. Journal of Management History, (doi: 10.1108/JMH-10-2022-0056) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Vasileios, Georgiou and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2022) New development: management control for emergent risks in the public sector—a levers of control perspective. Public Money and Management, 42(6), pp. 417-419. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2021.1986301)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680, Parker, Lee ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2335-6857 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2022) Connecting global SDGs to local government: a developing country case. In: Adams, Carol A. (ed.) Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability. Series: Research handbooks in accounting. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, pp. 191-208. ISBN 9781800373518 (doi: 10.4337/9781800373518.00018)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, McKernan, John Francis ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 and Zou, Yanru ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9672-9581 (2022) Speculative accountability for animal kinship. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 84, 102360. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2021.102360)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2022) When rights enter the CSR Field: British firms’ engagement with human rights and the UN Guiding Principles. Human Rights Review, 23(1), pp. 21-40. (doi: 10.1007/s12142-020-00614-w)

2021

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2021) Mixing business with politics: does corporate social responsibility end where lobbying transparency begins? Regulation and Governance, 15(2), pp. 262-279. (doi: 10.1111/rego.12275)

2020

Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Gunn, Douglas (2020) Risk governance through public sector interactive control systems: the intricacies of turning immeasurable uncertainties into manageable risks. Public Money and Management, 42(6), pp. 379-387. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2021.1965729)

Wilson, James M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3810-9434 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2020) Industrial topiary: bending trees for building ships. Topiarius, 24(Summer), pp. 32-35.

Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Sicilia, Mariafrancesca (2020) Building trust in public sector networks: the role of rhetoric and persuasion. Financial Accountability and Management, 36(2), pp. 134-150. (doi: 10.1111/faam.12229)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2020) An expanding conception of social responsibility? Of global norms and changing corporate perceptions. In: Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes and Vetterlein, Antje (eds.) The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 188-212. ISBN 9781108490948 (doi: 10.1017/9781108867047.013)

2018

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Du, Minmin, McMaster, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Morgan-Thomas, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2228-6463 (2018) Adam Smith Cared and We Should Too: Our Duty of Care for Student Wellbeing and Resilience. Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 10-14 Aug 2018.

Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2018) Boundary-spanning leadership in hybrid networks: a case study of English local safeguarding children boards. In: Bonomi Savignon, Andrea, Gnan, Luca, Hinna, Alessandro and Monteduro, Fabio (eds.) Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services. Series: Studies in public and non-profit governance (7). Emerald Publishing: Bingley, UK, pp. 243-260. ISBN 9781787437708 (doi: 10.1108/S2051-663020180000007008)

2016

Wilson, James M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3810-9434 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2016) From Seedlings to Ships: Supply Chain Management in the Venice Arsenale, 1320-1800. British Academy of Management Conference (BAM2016), Newcastle, UK, 06-08 Sep 2016. (Unpublished)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Bernhagen, Patrick (2016) Engaging firms: The global organisational field for corporate social responsibility and national varieties of capitalism. Policy and Society, 35(1), pp. 13-27. (doi: 10.1016/j.polsoc.2015.12.003)

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Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Conference or Workshop Item
Number of items: 19.

Articles

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2025) Corporate responsibility and the state: business lobbying on climate change in the UK. Interest Groups and Advocacy, (doi: 10.1057/s41309-025-00230-4) (Early Online Publication)

Aziz, Dalilah, Stoner, Greg ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5435-9324 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2024) Charting futures: Understanding anticipatory professional socialisation practices of prospective accountants within Higher Education. Accounting Education, (doi: 10.1080/09639284.2024.2327633) (Early Online Publication)

Bradley, Lynn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7314-6022, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and McKernan, John ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2023) Local authority audit in England, playing the field? Financial Accountability and Management, 39(2), pp. 286-303. (doi: 10.1111/faam.12350)

Wilson, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3810-9434 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2023) From seedlings to ships: supply chain and production management in the Venice Arsenale, 1400-1800. Journal of Management History, (doi: 10.1108/JMH-10-2022-0056) (Early Online Publication)

Vasileios, Georgiou and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2022) New development: management control for emergent risks in the public sector—a levers of control perspective. Public Money and Management, 42(6), pp. 417-419. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2021.1986301)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, McKernan, John Francis ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 and Zou, Yanru ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9672-9581 (2022) Speculative accountability for animal kinship. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 84, 102360. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2021.102360)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2022) When rights enter the CSR Field: British firms’ engagement with human rights and the UN Guiding Principles. Human Rights Review, 23(1), pp. 21-40. (doi: 10.1007/s12142-020-00614-w)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2021) Mixing business with politics: does corporate social responsibility end where lobbying transparency begins? Regulation and Governance, 15(2), pp. 262-279. (doi: 10.1111/rego.12275)

Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Gunn, Douglas (2020) Risk governance through public sector interactive control systems: the intricacies of turning immeasurable uncertainties into manageable risks. Public Money and Management, 42(6), pp. 379-387. (doi: 10.1080/09540962.2021.1965729)

Wilson, James M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3810-9434 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2020) Industrial topiary: bending trees for building ships. Topiarius, 24(Summer), pp. 32-35.

Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Sicilia, Mariafrancesca (2020) Building trust in public sector networks: the role of rhetoric and persuasion. Financial Accountability and Management, 36(2), pp. 134-150. (doi: 10.1111/faam.12229)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and Bernhagen, Patrick (2016) Engaging firms: The global organisational field for corporate social responsibility and national varieties of capitalism. Policy and Society, 35(1), pp. 13-27. (doi: 10.1016/j.polsoc.2015.12.003)

Book Sections

Rodrigues, Andre, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2023) Framing risk management within management control systems. In: Rana, Tarek and Parker, Lee (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Public Sector Accounting. Routledge, pp. 189-201. ISBN 9781003295945 (doi: 10.4324/9781003295945-18)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 and McMillan, Fraser ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4843-2449 (2023) Responsible lobbyists? In: Lyon, Thomas P. (ed.) Corporate Political Responsibility. Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-187. (doi: 10.1017/9781009420815.010)

Wickramasinghe, Danture ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5152-5147, Alawattage, Chandana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2339-7680, Parker, Lee ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2335-6857 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2022) Connecting global SDGs to local government: a developing country case. In: Adams, Carol A. (ed.) Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability. Series: Research handbooks in accounting. Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, pp. 191-208. ISBN 9781800373518 (doi: 10.4337/9781800373518.00018)

Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kollman, Kelly ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-0092 (2020) An expanding conception of social responsibility? Of global norms and changing corporate perceptions. In: Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes and Vetterlein, Antje (eds.) The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 188-212. ISBN 9781108490948 (doi: 10.1017/9781108867047.013)

Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and Kominis, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-8181 (2018) Boundary-spanning leadership in hybrid networks: a case study of English local safeguarding children boards. In: Bonomi Savignon, Andrea, Gnan, Luca, Hinna, Alessandro and Monteduro, Fabio (eds.) Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services. Series: Studies in public and non-profit governance (7). Emerald Publishing: Bingley, UK, pp. 243-260. ISBN 9781787437708 (doi: 10.1108/S2051-663020180000007008)

Conference or Workshop Item

Okay-Somerville, Belgin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4314-674X, Dudau, Adina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5599-1487, Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, Du, Minmin, McMaster, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7114-9871 and Morgan-Thomas, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2228-6463 (2018) Adam Smith Cared and We Should Too: Our Duty of Care for Student Wellbeing and Resilience. Academy of Management, Teaching and Learning Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, 10-14 Aug 2018.

Wilson, James M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3810-9434 and Favotto, Alvise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 (2016) From Seedlings to Ships: Supply Chain Management in the Venice Arsenale, 1320-1800. British Academy of Management Conference (BAM2016), Newcastle, UK, 06-08 Sep 2016. (Unpublished)

This list was generated on Tue Jul 8 19:46:10 2025 BST.

Grants

  • 2019: CoSS Strategic Research Fund - Financial Education in Scotland - with Betty Wu
  • 2019: Leverhulme Trust - Responsible Lobbyists? Corporate Responsibility and Public Policy - with Kelly Kollman
  • 2016: The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland – Sustainability at the Venice Arsenale - with James Wilson
  • 2015: ESRC Impact Acceleration Account - Borderless Politics - with Kelly Kollman
  • 2012: Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research - Performance measurement systems in Italian Universities - with Maria Bergamin

Supervision

Supervisory interests

  • Corporate Accountability and Governance
  • Management Control Systems
  • Social and Environmental Accounting
  • Corporate political activity

Current supervision

  • Gunathilake, Panditha Thenne Madushani
    Constructing Accountability through Sustainable Development: Evidence from a Sri Lankan Rural Development Project
  • Hilmy, Mara
    Zooming into Organisational Socialisation
  • Rehm, Eva Sophia
    Analysis of recent developments towards the harmonisation of sustainability reporting and its impact on companies’ CSR practices and sustainability disclosures
  • Rodrigues, André
    FROM MANAGEMENT CONTROL TO INTEGRITY CONTROL: THE ROLE OF POST-CRISIS ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING
  • Shen, Wei
    Corporate Tax Avoidance: Evidence from a tax reform in China
  • Sherief, Ramy Gamal Soliman
    Auditing the Best Value of Scottish Local Authorities

Teaching

Current courses

  • Financial Information and Analysis (MBA)
  • International Corporate Governance & Accountability (PG)
  • Management Accounting & Control (PG)
  • Management Control Systems (UG)
  • Social and Environmental Accounting (UG)

Past teaching

  • Accountability and Human Rights (UG)
  • Accounting for Management Control (UG)
  • Business Management 2A (UG)
  • Global Issues in Management Accounting (PG)
  • Human Rights and Business (PG)
  • Introduction to Management Accounting and Control (UG)
  • Management Accounting I (UG)
  • Management Accounting II (UG)
  • Social & Environmental Accounting (PG)

Dr Alvise Favotto, Lecturer in Accounting