Research interest
- Sustainability Accounting & Reporting
- Sustainability reporting in voluntary and mandatory regimes
- Materiality and comparability in sustainability reporting
Curriculum vitae
Practical activities
- since 09/2022 Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Management Accounting, University of Bamberg, Germany
- 07/2023 - 07/2023 External lecturer in Corporate Social Accountability – Master’s degree course in Climate Change at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
- 01/2022 - 08/2022 Research Collaborator supporting the project "Social Impact of Collective Ownership in the Alpine Areas" (funded by the European Commission) at the University of Trento, Italy
- 01/2022 - 05/2022 Part-time consultant supporting projects on international ESG disclosure and regulations at Climate & Company, Berlin, Germany
- 07/2022 External lecturer in Corporate Social Accountability – Master’s degree course in Climate Change at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
- 09/2019–12/2021 Teaching Assistant at the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy
- 09/2021 Lecturer Introduction to Accounting – Crash Course for students in European Master of Business Studies (EMBS) programme at the University of Trento, Italy
- 05/2021–12/2021 Part-time junior analyst supporting projects on international ESG disclosure and regulations at Climate & Company, Berlin, Germany
- 11/2017–09/2018 Degree programme tutor at the University of Bologna, Italy
Education
- 10/2018–03/2022 Doctor in Economics and Management (with distincion) at the University of Trento, Italy (full scholarship from the University of Trento)
- 09/2022 EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Empirical Financial Accounting Research at the Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
- 09/2021 Summer School on Sustainability Management and Reporting at the University of Pavia, Italy
- 12/2019 Certificate of Advanced Studies in Economics and Management at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy
- 09/2016–09/2018 Master’s degree in Economics and Management as an Erasmus at the University of Bologna, Italy (full scholarship from the European Commission as an Erasmus Mundus grantee)
- 09/2012–12/2015 Bachelor’s degree in Banking, Finance and Accounting at the University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Prishtina, Kosovo
Visiting research
- 09/2024 Visiting Scholar at the University of Pavia, Italy (funded by University of Pavia)
- 09/2023 - 10/2023 Visiting Scholar at Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada (funded by BayFor)
- 03/2020–06/2020 Visiting PhD student at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Awards
- 09/2024 Outstanding Paper Award from Emerald Publishing on the study “Disentangling the concept of comparability in sustainability reporting” published in Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal
- 11/2023 Sustainability Research Award from the University of Bamberg and Lyceum Foundation Bamberg
Other roles
- since 09/2023 Part of the editorial board in journals:
- Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
- Accounting Forum
- Sustainability Accounting and Management Policy Journal - since 04/2023 European Ambassador at the Accounting for Impact
Publications
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=blerita+korca&btnG=