Business economics and principles of accounting - Prof. Antonio Prencipe - a.a. 2026/2027

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Professor Antonio Prencipe is Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Teramo. His teaching responsibilities within the Department of Communication Sciences include Business Strategy (12 ECTS) on the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Communication Sciences, Entrepreneurship (6 ECTS) on the Master’s Degree Programme in Communication for Organisational Management, and Business Strategies and Models on the Master’s Degree Programme in Law, Economics and Business Strategy.

He holds the Italian National Scientific Qualification for appointment as Full Professor of Business Administration (Directorial Decree No. 553/2021, as amended by Directorial Decree No. 589/2021; competition sector 13/B1), as well as the qualification for appointment as Associate Professor in the same field (Directorial Decree No. 2175/2018; competition sector 13/B1).

Current institutional appointments include Rector’s Delegate for Placement and Student Experience, membership of the Board of Directors of the University of Teramo, coordination of the Department of Communication Sciences’ Research Quality Assurance Committee, and chairmanship of the University Patent Committee. Additional responsibilities include membership of the University Committee for Budget Strategy and Monitoring, the Research Monitoring Committee, and the Open Access Committee. As a member of the Academic Board of the PhD Programme in Economic and Social Sciences, Professor Prencipe also contributes to doctoral teaching at the University of Teramo.

Within externally funded research and educational initiatives, Professor Prencipe serves as the University’s Scientific Coordinator for the Erasmus+ project “EuRopean Centers for scaling Up VET Learning Excellences in Sales – ERCULES” and for “Mente in Movimento Me.Mo 2.0: Connessioni vitali”, funded under the PROBEN programme. His responsibilities also encompass the scientific coordination of Task 7.4, Higher Education, within Work Package 7, Awareness, Dissemination and Communication, Higher Education, of the VITALITY project.

Professional affiliations include membership of the Italian Academy of Business Administration and Management (AIDEA) and the European Academy of Management (EURAM), alongside former membership of the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB). His academic activities extend to editorial board service for international scholarly journals recognised by ANVUR and AIDEA, and participation in national and international research projects as scientific coordinator and research team member.

He coordinates the research group “Emerging Dynamics and Interdependencies between Corporate Governance and Business Performance: An Analysis of Exogenous and Endogenous Determinants” and serves on the Scientific Board of the research centre “Ecological Transition, Sustainability and Global Challenges”. Further research affiliations include the groups “Analysis of Emerging Models of Social Accountability and Social Reporting in Organisations” and “Critical Success Factors and Valuation Models in Research Spin-offs: Longitudinal and Cross-sectoral Analyses”, as well as the international research group “Determinants and Evolutionary Dynamics of University Spin-off Growth: Multilevel and Cross-national Analytical Approaches”.

His scholarly output comprises numerous publications, including:

• “Do university spin-offs manage earnings differently? Analyzing the role of academic affiliation” (2025).

• “Sustainability-Oriented Businesses and Earnings Management. What Is the True Relationship? Evidence From Italian Benefit Corporations” (2025).

• “The Transition in Accounting Paradigms from the Tuscan School to the Venetian School in Italy: A Study of the Contribution of Vincenzo Gitti under the Kuhnian Epistemological Model” (2025).

• “Boosting circular economy via the b-corporation roads. The effect of the entrepreneurial culture and exogenous factors on sustainability performance” (2023).

• “Unmasking Intellectual Capital from gender and nationality diversity in University Spin-Offs boards. A study on non-linear effects upon firm innovation” (2022).

• “Influence of the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem and its knowledge spillovers in developing successful university spin-offs” (2020).

• “High-tech entrepreneurial firms’ innovation in different institutional settings. Do venture capital and private equity have complementary or substitute effects?” (2019).

• “The role of venture capitalist to enhance the growth of Spanish and Italian university spin-offs” (2018).

• “Improving the external financing in independent high-tech SMEs. Does the foreign ownership matter?” (2017).