
PhD (Queensland University of Technology), Master of Business Administration - International Business (Central Queensland University)
Background Luca has:
- More than 20 years experience in the Hospitality and Tourism industry as a small business owner, which has given him a deep understanding of the issues that industry professionals are facing every day
- Fifteen years’ experience in the NFP and charity industry by fulfilling different roles (board member, board advisor, club president, young professional’s coordinator).
- Over three years’ experience in the insurance industry as a trainer in client portfolio management and sales techniques
Research interests
- Business ethics (Corporate social responsibility, ethical Managerial decision making in healthcare industry)
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation (innovation in the public sector, nascent firms business ideas, SMEs business venture)
- Teaching & Learning (university first years students’ expectation, learning and satisfaction of completing higher degree students, study ethics in higher degree, AACSB accreditation and AOL goals)
Additional information
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- I have been an Associate Editor for the Australian Health Review since the beginning of 2018. This journal is a well know in the are of healthcare management and health with a stable Q2 ranking and a goal to become a Q1 in the near future.I was invited to join the editorial board as the healthcare management expert and to deal with related submissions.
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Myself and Professor Gary E. Day are co-editors of a special edition titled "The Ethics of management and Leading Health Services" in the Asia Pacific Journalof Health Management.
- Type
- Reviewer for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Business Ethics Quarterly is ranked ¿A¿ on the ABDC list and it is known as the most prestigious journal in the area of Business Ethics. I have been invited to review a number of papers due to my recognised international expertise on a number of topics varying from Ethical decision making to ethics and innovation.
- Type
- Reviewer for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Journal of Business Ethics (JBE) is an ranked an ¿A¿ based on the ABDC list and one of the 2 most prestigious journal globally on the area of business ethics. I have been an active reviewer for JBE since 2010, and also some of my work has been published in the journal as well.
- Casali, L. & Perano, M. (2021). Forty years of research on factors influencing ethical decision making: Establishing a future research agenda. Journal of Business Research, 132, 614–630. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/204687
- Weaver, D., McLennan, C., Moyle, B. & Casali, G. (2024). Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events: evidence from the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 32(2). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/237832
- Weaver, D., Moyle, B., Casali, L. & McLennan, C. (2022). Pragmatic engagement with the wicked tourism problem of climate change through ‘soft’ transformative governance. Tourism Management, 93. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/232672
- Perano, M., Abbate, T., La Rocca, E. & Casali, L. (2019). Cittaslow & fast-growing SMEs: Evidence from Europe. Land Use Policy, 82, 195–203. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125838
- Casali, L., Perano, M., Presenza, A. & Abbate, T. (2018). Does innovation propensity influence wineries' distribution channel decisions? International Journal of Wine Business Research, 30(4), 446–462. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/223977
- Casali, L., Perano, M., Tartaglione, A. & Zolin, R. (2018). How business idea fit affects sustainability and creates opportunities for value co-creation in nascent firms. Sustainability, 10(1), 1–15. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/119402
- Casali, L., Perano, M. & Abbate, T. (2017). Understanding roles and functions of academic libraries as innovation intermediaries within the service-dominant logic perspective: An Australian case study. Journal of Library Administration, 57(2), 135–150. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/98573
- Arundel, A., Casali, L. & Hollanders, H. (2015). How European public sector agencies innovate: The use of bottom-up, policy-dependent and knowledge-scanning innovation methods. Research Policy, 44(7), 1271–1282. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84331
- Robertson, P., Casali, L. & Jacobson, D. (2012). Managing open incremental process innovation: Absorptive Capacity and distributed learning. Research Policy, 41(5), 822–832. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/51066
- Casali, L., (2011). Developing a multidimensional scale for ethical decision making. Journal of Business Ethics, 104(4), 485–497. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/42620
- PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Greg Hearn - Exploring the expansion of electric vehicles into outback Queensland's eco-tourism environment
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Char-lee McLennan