Marcello Mariani is Professor of Management, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Marketing and Director of the DIMPACT Research Center (https://centri.unibo.it/digital-management/en). He is involved in a number of national and international research projects, and collaborates with the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.
Prof. Mariani has extensive teaching experience at all levels (bachelor, master, PhD, MBA and Executive). He has been teaching and visiting scholar at many foreign universities and business schools (including the New York University Stern School of Business). Marcello Mariani has directed and contributed to the development of several Master programs and executive programs, and has developed many courses and modules in management, business strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation management, and marketing.
He has authored more than 200 publications, including about 120 journal articles, 6 books, 20 book chapters, and more than 100 conference papers. His scientific work has received more than 23,000 citations and several of his studies have received coverage by the Financial Times. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Long Range Planning, Journal of Business Research,Industrial Marketing Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Production Planning & Control, International Journal of Production Research, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Advertising, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management, European Accounting Review, International Studies in Management and Organizations, and more.
Since 2022 he has been ranked every year among the Top 1% scientists worldwide based on the Stanford-Elsevier bibliometric studies and since then he has been the most prolific and cited scholar of the University of Bologna in the subject area “Business & Management”. In 2024 he was awarded the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher Award 2024.
He has been and is a special issue Guest Editor for a number of academic journals including Journal of Business Research, Psychology & Marketing, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, British Food Journal, and more.
He sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Business Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, British Food Journal, Tourism Review, and more.
He has been awarded a number of prizes from academic bodies, learned societies, and research centers such as the Academy of Management (USA), the Department of Education, Science and Training Australian Government (Australia), the European Cultural Foundation (Netherlands), the European Academy of Management (Brussels).
