Matteo’s main research interests include Accounting History, Management Accounting, and Sustainability Accounting.
His research aims at advancing accounting knowledge and extending the boundaries of accounting research by contributing to the interdisciplinary literature and stimulating discussion among academics and practitioners. He relies on the intense observation of the cultural, social, economic, and legislative contexts.
Changes, challenges, and issues faced by organisations particularly energise Matteo’s research, and his critical investigations on the mechanisms and practices to understand how social actors react to accounting, to discover complex interconnections, casual relationships and their impacts on policy, practice, and society.
He mainly adopts qualitative methods to gather and analyse data, including in-depth interviews, observations, ethnographies, action research, focus groups, archival and literary works analysis, thematic and semantic analysis.
Matteo has experience in conducting research projects of international calibre aimed at attracting competitive research funds, and he has well-established, enduring relationships with British, Italian, Australian, and New Zealander researchers.