Dr. Blerita Korca

Phone: +49 / (0)951 / 863-2705

Room: F21/02.16a

Regular office hours: by appointment

Research interest

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

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