Myriam Mariani
Full Professor

Biography
Myrian Mariani is Full Professor of Applied Economics and Director of the MSc EMIT - Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology at Università Bocconi. She is an Associate Program Chair of the Knowledge and Innovation IG of the Strategic Management Society.
Her work focuses on Welfare and Social Innovation, with particular attention on inventors’ job motivations and knowledge transmission during the inventive process. Her most recent research studies the career effects of overwork and temporal flexibility for women. She also investigates why there are so few women in innovation, and the processes through which they select in and out from the inventive profession. She is the author of numerous articles on her topics of interest. Her works have been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science and Academy of Management Journal, among others.
She got a PhD from the Marche Polytechnic University and completed a two-year post-doc Marie Curie fellowship at MERIT (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology).
Recent Publications
- 2025
The Gendered “Ratchet Effect” in Commuting-to-Work After Covid-19: Evidence from Cellular Phone Data
D'ANGELO, V., L. GAGLIARDI, M. MARIANI, "The Gendered “Ratchet Effect” in Commuting-to-Work After Covid-19: Evidence from Cellular Phone Data" in The 85th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, July 25-29, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark - 2024
Temporal Availability and Women Career Progression: Evidence from Cross-Time-Zone Acquisitions
GAGLIARDI, L., M. MARIANI, S. BRESCHI, "Temporal Availability and Women Career Progression: Evidence from Cross-Time-Zone Acquisitions", Organization Science, 2024, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 2178-2197 - 2023
Lost Marie Curies: Parental Impact on the Probability of Becoming an Inventor
HOISL, K., H. C. KONGSTED, M. MARIANI, "Lost Marie Curies: Parental Impact on the Probability of Becoming an Inventor", Management Science, 2023, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 1714-1738 - 2023
Is it a Match? Training Entrepreneurs to Make Decisions Favors the Prepared Mind
FROSI, C., M. MARIANI, L. GAGLIARDI, "Is it a Match? Training Entrepreneurs to Make Decisions Favors the Prepared Mind" in 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 4-8 August, 2023, Boston, United States of America - 2022
Trained to lead: Evidence from industrial research
GAGLIARDI, L., M. MARIANI, "Trained to lead: Evidence from industrial research", Strategic Management Journal, 2022, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 847-871 - 2021
Temporal flexibility in the workplace and women’s career progression
GAGLIARDI, L., M. MARIANI, S. BRESCHI, D. HOVY, "Temporal flexibility in the workplace and women’s career progression" in 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2021), 30 July-3 August, 2021, (online) - 2021
Determinants of inventorship: family environment and parental forces
MARIANI, M., K. HOISL, H. C. KONGSTED, "Determinants of inventorship: family environment and parental forces" in 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2021), 30 July-3 August, 2021, (online), United States of America - 2021
The Role of Location on the Inventor Gender Gap: Are Women Geographically Constrained?
DELGADO, M., L. GIUS, M. MARIANI, F. MURRAY, "The Role of Location on the Inventor Gender Gap: Are Women Geographically Constrained?" in 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2021), 30 July-3 August, 2021, (online), United States of America - 2019
Firm strategic behavior and the measurement of knowledge flows with patent citations
CORSINO, M., M. MARIANI, S. TORRISI, "Firm strategic behavior and the measurement of knowledge flows with patent citations", Strategic Management Journal, 2019, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1040-1069 - 2018
Rewards for Patents and Inventor Behaviors in Industrial Research and Development
GIARRATANA, M. S., M. MARIANI, I. WELLER, "Rewards for Patents and Inventor Behaviors in Industrial Research and Development", Academy of Management Journal, 2018, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 264-292
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Grants & Honors
Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2023
Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2022

