Boris Durisin

SDA Professor of Marketing

boris.durisin@sdabocconi.it

Via Roentgen 1, room 4-E1-10 20136 MILANO

Tel +39 02-5836.6857/.6853

Fax +39 02-5836.6893

Curriculum Vitae

Degree, St.Gallen, Switerland, 1996.
Ph.D. St.Gallen University, 2001.
Member, Management Team “EMMS – Executive Master in Marketing & Sales” (in joint with ESADE Business School and in collaboration with faculty from Cornell University)

Academic position and/or Professional activities
Assistant Professor, Department of Management, University Bocconi

Research Interests

• How firms cope with technological innovation and create new markets (market innovation)
• How firms create the capability to perceive new opportunities and to integrate, reconfigure and build resources in order to convert these opportunities into revenue-producing products and services (firm innovativeness)
  
• How firms recognize the value, acquire, transform or assimilate, and exploit knowledge (absorptive capacity)
  
• How firms create and share knowledge across different levels of the organization (knowledge modularity) 
• How firms organize for radical and for incremental innovation (ambidextrous organizations)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Durisin, Boris and von Krogh, Georg (2005). Competitive Advantage, Knowledge Assets and Group-level Effects: An Empirical Study of Global Investment Banking, in: Bettis, Richard (ed.). Strategies in Transition. Blackwell, New York, 35-80.
• Durisin, Boris (2001). L’analisi della concorrenza nel nuovo contesto competitivo, in: Vicari, Salvatore (ed). La Gestione della Virtualità: Dalla catena del valore alla rete virtuale del valore, EGEA, Milano, 125-173.
• Durisin, Boris (2001). L’appropriazione del valore nella rete: Competere per il profitto in contesti virtuali, in: Vicari, Salvatore (ed). Management ed economia della Virtualità: Dalla catena del valore alla rete virtuale del valore, EGEA, Milano, 205-225.

Articles 

• Durisin, Boris, Calabretta, Giulia and Parmeggiani, Vanni (forthcoming). The Intellectual Structure of Product Innovation Research: A Bibliometric Study of the Journal of Product Innovation Management, 1984-2004, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 25: 26p.
• Durisin, Boris and Puzone, Fulvio (2009). Maturation of Corporate Governance Research, 1993 – 2007: An Assessment. Corporate Governance – An International Review, 18(3): 266-291.
• Todorova, Gergana and Durisin, Boris (2007). Absorptive Capacity: Valuing a Reconceptualization. Academy of Management Review, 32(3): 774-786.