
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.
- Perano M, Abbate T, La Rocca E, Casali L, (2019) Cittaslow & fast-growing SMEs: Evidence from Europe, Land Use Policy, 82, pp. 195-203.
- 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), pp. 446-462.
- Tartaglione A, Zolin R, Casali L, Perano M, (2018) How business idea fit affects sustainability and creates opportunities for value co-creation in nascent firms, Sustainability, 10 (1), pp. 1-15.
- Presenza A, Abbate T, Casali L, Perano M, (2017) An innovative approach to the intellectual property in haute cuisine, International Journal of Hospitality Management, 65, pp. 81-88.
- 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), pp. 135-150.
- Casali L, Zolin R, Sawang S, (2016) Do SMEs cluster around innovation activities? Discovering active, incremental and opportunistic innovators, International Journal of Innovation Management, 20 (07), pp. 1-24.
- 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), pp. 1271-1282.
- Robertson P, Casali L, Jacobson D, (2012) Managing open incremental process innovation: Absorptive Capacity and distributed learning, Research Policy, 41 (5), pp. 822-832.
- Casali L, (2011) Developing a multidimensional scale for ethical decision making, Journal of Business Ethics, 104 (4), pp. 485-497.
- Casali L, Day G, (2010) Treating an unhealthy organisational culture: The implications of the Bundaberg hospital inquiry for managerial ethical decision making, Australian Health Review, 34 (1), pp. 73-79.
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