Dr Mattia Anesa
Mattia Anesa is Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Queensland Business School, research associate at the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Managment (UK) and research intern at the United Nations Global Compact. Mattia has conducted research on ethical issues faced by business in Australia, Italy, China, UK, Netherlands, and Madagascar. Beyond research, he has worked in his family's tax advisory and spent a decade consulting in the event management field for major sport competitions across Europe.
His research interest lies in the field of Business Ethics and in the associated fields of strategy, legitimacy, reflexivity and governance. He adopts a sociological lens to understand ethical dilemmas within organizational settings and focuses on organizational responses to ethical crises, chiefly within the context of taxation.
Mattia brings philosophical and ethical challenges in the classroom to shape our future leaders as reflexive and thoughtful individuals in the following units:
- FMBA5002 Critical Analysis and Thought Leadership
- SMBA6005 Critical Analysis and Thought Leadership
- SIEN3204 Managing Organizational Sustainability
Mattia is supervising the following projects:
- Dr Corinna Galliano - Navigating and reflecting on paradoxes: Integrating innovative technologies in entrepreneurial ventures (with Stefan Meisek)
- Donna Denyer - Kicking goals: Community stakeholders as value creators, strategists, and identity shapers (with Leanne Cutcher) - Graduated
- Jared Harrison - Growing History: How Indigenous agricultural enterprises compromise to balance competing economic, socio-cultural and environmental demands (with Chris Wright)
Mattia's current focus is on the development and co-ordination of a global project titled ‘Understanding tax strategies in a globalized society’. This project will examines how tax strategists, policy-makers, regulators and investors are practically responding to ever changing professional norms and societal pressures, including pushes towards greater transparency as well as better valuing Indigenous ways of doing business.
2024 - Academic of the year, Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society
2022, 2024 - USS Award for teaching, The University of Sydney Business School
2018 - Rama Krishna Sastry Pappu Memorial Prize in Business, The University of Queensland Business School
2017 - 4th Amartya Sen Essay Prize, Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP)
2016 - Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award, Academy of Management
2016 - Best International Paper Award, Critical Management Studies Division, Academy of Management
2015 - Best PhD Student Presentation, Australian Tax Teachers’ Association (ATTA)
Publications
Book Chapters
- Anesa, M. (2021). Lest we forget what contributes to our healthcare. In D.-L.Arjalies, Y. Gendron, C. Lehman, P.A. Navarro Perez, J.P.R. de Lima, et al (Eds.), Breaking Boundaries: (Counter) Accounts during the Pandemic - Letters for Future Generations, (pp. 358-361). London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario. [More Information]
- Anesa, M., Chalkias, K., Jarzabkowski, P., Spee, P. (2020). Practicing Capitals Across Fields: Extending Bourdieu to Study Inter-Field Dynamics. In P. Haack, J. Sieweke, L. Wessel (Eds.), Microfoundations of Institutions (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 65B), (pp. 129-142). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. [More Information]
- Nelson, J., Anesa, M., Grayson, D. (2013). United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). In D. Grayson and J. Nelson (Eds.), Corporate Responsibility Coalitions: The Past, Present, and Future of Alliances for Sustainable Capitalism, (pp. 329-346). New York, United States: Routledge (Taylor and Francis). [More Information]
Journals
- Gillespie, N., Anesa, M., Lizzio-Wilson, M., Chapman, C., Healy, K., Hornsey, M. (2024). How do Sector Level Factors Influence Trust Violations in Not-for-Profit Organizations? A Multilevel Model. Journal of Business Ethics, 191(2), 373-398. [More Information]
- Anesa, M., Spee, A., Gillespie, N., Petani, F. (2024). Reassessing Moral Legitimacy in Times of Instability. Journal of Management Studies, 61(3), 857-887. [More Information]
- Anesa, M., Bressan, A. (2024). SMEs tax minimization as shared responsibility. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 98, 102698. [More Information]
Magazine / Newspaper Articles
- Anesa, M., Spee, A., Petani, F. (2023). Public Sector Informant: PwC scandal exposes flaw in expertise shaping Australia's tax system. The Canberra Times. [More Information]
2024
- Gillespie, N., Anesa, M., Lizzio-Wilson, M., Chapman, C., Healy, K., Hornsey, M. (2024). How do Sector Level Factors Influence Trust Violations in Not-for-Profit Organizations? A Multilevel Model. Journal of Business Ethics, 191(2), 373-398. [More Information]
- Anesa, M., Spee, A., Gillespie, N., Petani, F. (2024). Reassessing Moral Legitimacy in Times of Instability. Journal of Management Studies, 61(3), 857-887. [More Information]
- Anesa, M., Bressan, A. (2024). SMEs tax minimization as shared responsibility. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 98, 102698. [More Information]
2023
- Anesa, M., Spee, A., Petani, F. (2023). Public Sector Informant: PwC scandal exposes flaw in expertise shaping Australia's tax system. The Canberra Times. [More Information]
2021
- Anesa, M. (2021). Lest we forget what contributes to our healthcare. In D.-L.Arjalies, Y. Gendron, C. Lehman, P.A. Navarro Perez, J.P.R. de Lima, et al (Eds.), Breaking Boundaries: (Counter) Accounts during the Pandemic - Letters for Future Generations, (pp. 358-361). London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario. [More Information]
2020
- Anesa, M., Chalkias, K., Jarzabkowski, P., Spee, P. (2020). Practicing Capitals Across Fields: Extending Bourdieu to Study Inter-Field Dynamics. In P. Haack, J. Sieweke, L. Wessel (Eds.), Microfoundations of Institutions (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 65B), (pp. 129-142). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. [More Information]
2019
- Anesa, M., Gillespie, N., Spee, A., Sadiq, K. (2019). The legitimation of corporate tax minimization. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 75, 17-39. [More Information]
2017
- Anesa, M. (2017). Book Review: Trends and Players in Tax Policy. Australian Tax Review, 46(1), 61-63. [More Information]
- Antonetti, P., Anesa, M. (2017). Consumer reactions to corporate tax strategies: The role of political ideology. Journal of Business Research, 74, 1-10. [More Information]
2013
- Nelson, J., Anesa, M., Grayson, D. (2013). United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). In D. Grayson and J. Nelson (Eds.), Corporate Responsibility Coalitions: The Past, Present, and Future of Alliances for Sustainable Capitalism, (pp. 329-346). New York, United States: Routledge (Taylor and Francis). [More Information]
Selected Grants
2020
- Understanding tax strategies in a globalized society, Anesa M, Sydney Business School/Early Career Research Scheme