Giovanni FAVERO

Current appointments

• Full professor at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Ca’ Foscari) since February 15, 2018.

• Member of the Department of Management (DM) since January 1, 2011.

• Member of the DM Research Committee since April 2011.

• Deputy coordinator of the PhD in Management of Ca' Foscari, since February 2014.

Past appointments:

• Associate Professor at Ca’ Foscari from November 1, 2007 to February 14, 2018.

• DM associate dean for Research since May 1, 2015, until September 30, 2017.

• DM associate dean for Careers and development from April 2011 to December 2013.

• Member of the Working group on research quality of Ca' Foscari from March 2013 to December 2014.

• Member of the Council of the Graduate School of Economics and Management (GSEM) of Ca' Foscari, Università di Padova and Università di Verona, from May 2013 to June 2017.

• Scientific head of the Vicenza Historical institute of the Resistance and contemporary age (Istrevi), from March 1, 2007 to June 2018.

• Ca’ Foscari Department of Economics (DSE) referee for research projects and international relationships, from May 2001 to December 2010.

• Ricercatore universitario (Assistant Professor) in Economic History at DSE, appointed on February 1, 2000, tenured on February 1, 2003, until October 31, 2007.

• Fellow in the project “Per una storia dell’analisi quantitativa: l’esperienza veneta fra Ancien Régime e Ottocento” directed by Giovanni Levi at the Ca’ Foscari Department of History, from July 1, 1999 to January 31, 2000.

Education

• Ph.D. in Urban and Rural History (11^th cycle) at the University of Perugia on February 1999.

• Laurea (M.sc.) in History at Ca’ Foscari on March 1, 1995 – score 110/110 cum laude.

• 5^th Training Course in Historical Demography in Pontignano, Siena, organized by the Italian Association of Historical Demography (SIDeS), March-April 1992.

International experiences

• Thomas K. McCraw Fellow in US Business History at Harvard Business School (HBS) from September 1 to November 15, 2018.

• Visiting professor at Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, IEDES, in March 2016, in the Exchange Program Erasmus Plus.

• Visiting scholar at Aston Business School (Birmingham) in February 2016.

• Visiting researcher at the University of California (UC), Irvine, School of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, in the Exchange Program Ca' Foscari-UC, March-April 2001.

• Chercheur invité associated to the project “Approches comparatives sur la statistique européenne” directed by Alain Blum at the Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), March-April 1999.

• Visiting Ph.D. student at the Laboratoire de Démographie Historique (LDH) of the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, January-June 1998.

Financed research

• Scientific coordinator (with Francesco Cassata) of the project Les savoirs quantitatifs et les pratiques organisationnelles, co-financed by the École Française de Rome for the three-years period 2012-2014.

• Member of the project Futuro in Ricerca (FIRB 2010) The Engines of Growth: For a Global History of the Conflict between Renewable, Fossil and Fissile energies (1972-1992), coordinator Duccio Basosi (with Giuliano Garavini), financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research for the period May 2012 – May 2015.

• Scientific coordinator of the project Merchant Institutions and Globalization Processes: The Genoese and Florentine Diasporas in Early-Modern Venice, with fellowship financed by the DSE and by the cultural association Omnia Eventi, August 2009 – July 2010.

• Member of the project of national relevance (PRIN), financed by the Italian Ministero dell’istruzione, dell’università e della ricerca (MIUR) in 2005-2006: Competitiveness, innovation and international reorganization of the Made-in-Italy industry between history and future perspectives, local coordinator at Ca’ Foscari Mario Volpe, national coordinator Giovanni Luigi Fontana.

• Scientific coordinator of the project A Venetian lifestyle: Consumption practices and cultural identities in the tourist city, with fellowship financed by the Veneto Regional Government (FSE), April 2014 – March 2015.

Research organization

• Member of the DSE Board, in charge of research organisation, from November 17, 2005 to October 2008.

• As head of the Istrevi scientific board from March 2007 to June 2018, editor of the «Istrevi ricerche» refereed collection of books published by Cierre Edizioni, Verona.

• Co-editor of the «Culture del lavoro» refereed collection of books published by Edizioni Ca' Foscari since March 2014.

• Member of the scientific board of the SIDeS from November 2009 to October 2015.

Research evaluation

• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal of the SIDeS, Popolazione e storia (Udine, Forum), since July 2006.

• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Venetica (Verona, Cierre), since June 2011.

• Referee for the MIUR program Scientific Independence of young Researchers (SIR).

• Referee for the journals in English Business History, Enterprise & Society, History of Political Economy, Urban History; for the journals in Italian Quaderni Storici, Popolazione e Storia, Imprese e Storia, Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, Italia Contemporanea, Ateneo Veneto; for the journal in Spanish Aequilibriae; and for the Canadian publisher McGill – Queen’s University Press.

Ph.D supervision

• M. Agostini, Learning about firms' failing path: An explanation through annual reports information (coadvisor with C. Saccon), Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Ph.D in Management, 24^th cycle, 2012.

• S. Stoycheva, Measuring sustainability: An historical and critical perspective, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Ph.D in Management, 30^th cycle, 2018.