Marianna Marra

Core Faculty | Associate Professor

Short Profile outline

Marianna Marra (PhD, Aston Business School) is an Associate Professor at the School of Management, her research focuses on networks, innovation and international business. Before joining Polimi, she worked at the University of Sussex Business School and the University of Essex (UK). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, the Chair of the International Business/International Management Special Interest Group (SIG) of the British Academy of Management (BAM), and the Vice President (Program) for the Research Methods SIG of the Academy of International Business (AIB).

Education

PHD: , Aston Business School Birmingham UK. , .

Email: marianna.marra@polimi.it

Academic courses held at SOM Research Relevant Publications Grants, Awards and Honours Service to the Community

Relevant Publications

Yi Feng Yunqiang Yin Dujuan Wang Joshua Ignatius TCE Cheng Marianna Marra Yihan Guo, "Enhancing e-commerce customer churn management with a profit-and AUC-focused prescriptive analytics approach", Journal of Business Research

Cantwell J. Marra M., "Innovation and international business policy", Handbook of International Business Policy

Ali Emrouznejad Marianna Marra Guo-liang Yang Maria Michali, "Eco-efficiency considering NetZero and data envelopment analysis: a critical literature review", IMA journal of management mathematics, 34, 599-632

Suma Athreye John Cantwell Sarah Edris Marianna Marra, "Temporal Sequence of Knowledge Sourcing in Pharmaceutical MNEs", L'Industria, 43, 555-580

Cantwell J. Marra M., "The evolution of international networks for innovation", Cross-Border Innovation in a Changing World Players, Places, and Policies

Elizabeth Houldsworth Marianna Marra Chris Brewster Michael Brookes Geoffrey Wood, "Performance appraisal and MNEs: The impact of different capitalist archetypes", International Business Review, 30

Sena V. Marra Marianna Demirbag M. Lubrano Lavadera G., "The Impact of Institutions on Collaborative Innovations and the Role of Equity-Based Entry Modes", British Journal of Management, 33, 1395-1411

Leonida L. Marra Marianna Scicchitano S. Giangreco A. Biagetti M, "Estimating the wage premium to supervision for middle managers in different contexts: evidence from Germany and the UK", Work, Employment and Society, 34, 1004-1026

Fausto Galli Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera Marianna Marr, "Does High-speed Rail Affect Airport Efficiency? Evidence from Italy", Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (JTEP), 54

D Chen J Ignatius D Sun S Zhan C Zhou M Marra M Demirbag, "Reverse logistics pricing strategy for a green supply chain: a view of customers' environmental awareness", International Journal of Production Economics, 217

V Sena M Duygun G Lubrano M Marra M Shaban, "Board independence, corruption and innovation: some evidence on UK subsidiaries", Journal of Corporate Finance, 50

Ali Emrouznejad Marianna Marra, "The state of the art development of AHP (1979–2017): a literature review with a social network analysis", International Journal of Production Research, 55

M Marra W Ho CKM Le, "Managing supply chain knowledge-based linkages for improving operational performance", Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 14

Kaffash S. Marra M., "Data envelopment analysis in financial services: A citations network analysis of banks, insurance companies and money market funds", Annals of Operations Research

Marianna Marra Ali Emrouznejad William Ho John S Edwards, "The value of indirect ties in citation networks: SNA analysis with OWA operator weights", Information Science, 314

Grants, Awards and Honours

  • Excellence Education Award, University of Essex, 2019
  • Research Excellence Awards for Emerging Scholar, University of Sussex Business School, 2021
  • Research Committee Award, University of Essex Research Grant, 2018
  • Research Committee Award, University of Essex Research Grant, 2019
  • Eastern ARC Quantitative Social Science seed-corn fund, 2019
  • Executive Dean Fund, University of Essex, 2019
  • Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) PI. Title: Knowledge network: An interdisciplinary paper development workshop, 2019
  • BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants SRG 2020 Round PI. Title: The value of indirect citations to understand the evolution of technological innovation. 2020
  • Seed Corn Funding, University of Sussex, PI. 2022
  • Seed Corn Funding, University of Sussex, PI. 2023
  • Seed Corn Funding, University of Sussex, PI. 2024
  • Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS) PI. 2024

Service to the community

  • Associate Editor at International Journal of Management Reviews
  • Associate Editor at Socio-Economic Planning Science
  • Co-organiser of iBEGIN 2025 (International Business, Economic Geography, and Innovation) Workshop at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Chair of the British Academy of Management (BAM) IB/IM SIG.
  • Organizer of the 3rd EIBA Summer School on Research Methods in IB: GOVERNANCE OF ECO-SYSTEMS FOR INNOVATION IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS, at the University of Sussex, UK, July 2024.
  • Co-chair of the BAM (British Academy of Management) 2023 annual conference on "Towards Disruptive Sustainability: New Business Opportunities and Challenges", at the University of Sussex
  • Vice-President (Program) RM-SIG AIB | The Research Methodology Shared Interest Group of the Academy of International Business
  • Co-chair for the International Business, Innovation & Geography Track AIB-UK&I 2024 Conference;
  • PRME panel member: Championing Sustainability: Research, Reforms, and Overcoming Institutional Challenges in International Business Education. PRME, United Nations (UN) Global Forum 2024
  • Co-Chair for the Innovation and Geography Track at AIB-UK-I 2024 Aston Business School
  • Track Chair for the Innovation, Geography and IB track at AIB-UK 2021.
  • Track Chair for the IM/IB SIG at the British Academy of Management Conference (2020-2021)
  • Editorial Review Board: Journal of Management Studies; British Journal of Management; International Business Review
  • Recognition and Impact: - SAGE library video on Social Network Analysis; - Invited talk on “Big Data” at the ESRC Research Methods Festival of Social Science held at the University of Bath, 3-5 July 2018. - Webinars for the ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research Centre, University of Essex: (i) An Introduction to Social Network Analysis; (ii) Linear and Non-Linear Forecasting using STATA; (iii) Learning Webinar Lloyds Bank: “Breaking the Silos. SNA to Detect Data Patterns”. - Essex Summer School in Data Analytics – An Introduction to Social Network Analysis.

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