Lucrezia Songini

Lucrezia Songini is an Affiliate Professor of Accounting and Control at SDA Bocconi School of Management. She is an Adjunct Professor of Accounting and Control in SMEs at Università Bocconi and a Full Professor of Business Administration at Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara. She is Delegate Rector for Third Mission and Social Impact, Università del Piemonte Orientale, and the Director of the Linguistic Center and of the Interuniversity Centre for Studies on Family Business. She is a member of the Nucleo di Valutazione (Independent Evaluation Unit – NdV) of the Università dell’Insubria.

At SDA Bocconi, she is the Coordinator for the course Exectuive Programme in Planning and Control. She was responsible for the editorial series of Administration and Control from 1995 to 2006. She was the Coordinator of the course in Finance for non-finance managers from 2010 to 2018, of the course Managerial Control for SMEs from 2007 to 2009 and of the Evening Course Accounting and Managerial Control from 1995 to 2006. She has conducted research, education and consulting projects for many enterprises and institutions on managerial control systems, performance measurement systems, social balance sheets, sustainability and integrated reporting, cost management, after sales and servitization in manufacturing firms, managerialization and professionalization of SMEs and family businesses.

Her research activities focus on strategic planning and managerial control systems in family businesses and small and medium sized enterprises, strategic cost management, performance measurement, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, servitization in manufacturing companies.

She is the author of numerous books and articles on her topics of interest. Her works have been published in the Journal of Small Business Management, the Journal of Management and Govennance, the Journal of Family Business Strategy,Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management and, Economia & Management, among others.She is the National Representative for Italy on the Board of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and the Past Chair of the Strategic Interest Group Entrepreneurship at the European Academy of Management and Chair of the standing track Accounting and control for sustainability. She is a member of the editorial and review board of the Journal of Management and Governance and a member of the scientific committee of Management control.  She was the winner of the award for the best paper, “Professor Emeritus Alden G. Lank Research Award 2003” from the Family Business Consulting Group, and of the award for the best case study “Caso dell’anno 2007”, sponsored by SDA Bocconi School of Management. She holds a Certificate of excellence in reviewing for the Journal of Family Business Strategy, Elsevier (2013).

Lucrezia earned a degree in Business Administration from Università Bocconi. She is married, and has a daughter and a son.