CRISTINA BOARI
Full Professor, University of Bologna
Department of Management
Via Capo di Lucca, 34 40126 Bologna, Italy Tel. +39 051 20 9 8075
e-mail: cristina.boari@unibo.it
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/cristina.boari/en
EDUCATION
1978, University of Bologna, Economics and management
ACADEMIC POSITION
1994–present, University of Bologna
Full Professor
1992–1994, University of Bologna
Associate Professor
1987–1991, University of Florence
Associate Professor
1983–1987, University of Bologna
Research Fellow in Management
1981 and 1983, University in Tokyo
Visiting scholar
1983, University of Wisconsin
Visiting scholar
2017, Jaume I University of Castellon de la Plana
Visiting scholar
2017, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre
Visiting scholar
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1978-1979, Finemiro s.p.a., Italy
Junior consultant
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Bologna
1992 – present
Business Strategy
Corporate Strategy
Managing Relationships and Networks
University of Florence
1987–1991
Gestione e innovazione delle imprese commerciali e di servizi
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2000, outstanding reviewer BPS Division, Academy of Management
PARTICIPATION AS INVITED SPEAKER
2024 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Leveraging Past Entrepreneurial Experience for Innovative Ventures, November 28
2023 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, “The impact of past entrepreneurial experience on entrepreneurial venture innovation", November 20
2022 Universidad Jaume I, Castellon de la Plana, Spain, “Co-working spaces and innovation”, April 7.
2020 Liverpool Management School, Liverpool, UK, “Opening the innovation process: a multilevel approach”, May 27
2019 Grupo de Pesquisa em Tecnologia e Inovação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BR “Network Churns: Drivers and implications for innovation and entrepreneurship”, September 9
2019 Grupo de Pesquisa em Tecnologia e Inovação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BR “Opening the innovation process: a multilevel approach based on absorptive capacity”, September 10
2018 III Workshop d’Economia Valenciana, Fundacio Nexe, Valencia, “Small suppliers horizontal networks: the evolution ofinter-firm relationships and knowledge management within industrial cluster”, October 18-19
2017 Grupo de Pesquisa em Tecnologia e Inovação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BR, “Knowledge brokers in clusters”, December 4
2017 SemeAd XX , Universidade de San Paolo, San Paolo, BR, Seminarios em Administracao, November 8-11
2017 Faculdade de Economia, Administracao e Contabilidade (FACE), Universidade de Brasilia (UNB), Brasilia, BR, “Knowledge Brokers in Clusters”, November 6
2017 Escola de Administracao, “Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, BR, “Redes, conhecimento e Inovação”, October 16
2017 EnANPAD Doctoral Consortium, Encontro da Associação Nacional de Pós-graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD), “Lost in translation?” invited speaker, San Paolo, BR, 1-4 October
2017 Acede XXVII congreso, invited speaker Aranjuez, Spain, E, June 18-20.
2017 Clustering, Congreso internacional de clusters y distritos industriales, invited speaker at the roundtable with Academics, Chair: Xavier Molina-Morales, together with Roger Strange (University of Sussex, UK) and Anoop Madhok (York University, Canada), Valencia, E, May 25-26
2017 Departamento de Economia, Universitad Jaume I, Castellon de la Plana, E,”Social structure andactor'sbehavior. A study of searchingprocessinthe visualart industry”, March 30
2017 Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Económicas, Universitad Jaume I, Castellon de la Plana, E “Gatekeepers and brokerage activities. In local versus global business context”, , March 9
2017 PhD program Doctorado interuniversitario su Desarollo local y cooperación internacional, Valencia, E, “Network studies from social capital to network evolution”, March 2
2016 Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Económicas, Universitad Jaume I, Castellon de la Plana,E, “Knowledge brokers in local versus global business context”, March 22
2009 23rd RENT (Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Annual Conference), Budapest, U, invited speaker at the Opening Round Table on Growth of the firm, November 19-20
2008 Workshop on “Can clusters be issued by government? A European perspective”, invited speaker , Universitè Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, F, January 18
INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES
2000 – 2006, University of Bologna
Director of the Department of Management
1999 – 2000, University of Bologna
Coordinator of the PhD program in Business strategy and Organization
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Editorial Board:
2023-2024, Guest editor for single papers- European Management Review
2025, Associate editor for Cluster studies-European Management Review
Organization of international scientific conferences:
2016-2025: Member of the organizing committee of the SIG Innovation track on Inter-organizational networks and innovation EURAM Conference
2014: Member of the organizing committee of Entrepreneurs, Networking and Clusters: A Multi-level Perspective, EGOS Colloquium, Rotterdam
2009: Member of the organizing committee of the International Workshop on Exaptation, Gargnano sul Garda
2004: Member of the organizing committee of “International Workshop on Diversity”, University of Bologna
2003: Member of the organizing committee of the international conference “The firm in next 20 years”, University of Bologna
1997 Member of the organizing committee of EMOT (European Management and Organizations in Transition), Summer School on “Relational perspectives in organizational research: Concepts and research methods”, sponsored by the European Science Foundation, University of Bologna
