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College / Department

School of Business Administration

Department of Management, Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Teaching areas

Management

Research areas

Knowledge dynamics, knowledge management, organizational knowledge, organizational behavior, artifacts

Education

PhD, Management Studies, University of Molise, Italy, 2006

MBA, Business Administration, University of Molise, Italy, 2002

Professional experience

Associate Professor, Management, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2018 - Present

Associate Professor Of Management, IKI-SEA at Bangkok University (Thailand), 2013 - 2018

Assistant Professor Of Management, New York Institute of Technology (Bahrain, Abu Dhabi), 2008 - 2013

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 4642

Dr. Stefania Mariano

Associate Professor

PhD, University of Molise, Italy

Stefania Mariano has lived, taught and conducted research in Canada, USA, Europe, the Middle East and in Southeast Asia. She has been a visiting scholar at the George Washington University (USA), Sauder Business School-University of British Columbia (Canada) and Ivey Business School-University of Western Ontario (Canada). Her research interests include knowledge dynamics, organizational forgetting and entrepreneurial knowledge.

Publications

Benjamin Laker And Stefania Mariano. The unexpected upsides of letting employees define their jobs, Mit Sloan Management Review, 23 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2024

Stefania Mariano And Yukika Awazu. Managing large-scale projects: Unpacking the role of project memory, International Journal Of Project Management, February 2024

Stefania Mariano And Ben Laker. Making decisions on the fly: A systematic literature review and future research directions, Journal Of Business Research, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2024

Stefania Mariano. A knowledge-based perspective on the professionalization of SMEs: A systematic literature review and future research directions, Journal Of Knowledge Management, May 2023

Stefania Mariano. Actionable knowledge and creative projects: Antecedents, practices, and outcomes, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2022

Stefania Mariano And Yukika Awazu. I hear you: Constructing common knowledge practices in the context of organizational meetings, Journal Of Knowledge Management, 7 December 2021

Stefania Mariano. Let me help you! Navigating through the COVID-19 crisis with prosocial expert knowledge behavior, Knowlede Management Research And Practice, 8 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2021

Chulatep Senivongse, Stefania Mariano, Alex Bennet And Eric Tsui. Absorptive capacity efficacy in SMEs: Evidence from multiple-case studies in the information technology industry, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 30 June 2020

Preecha Chaochotechuang, Farhad Daneshgar And Stefania Mariano. External knowledge search paths in open innovation processes of small and medium enterprises, European Journal Of Innovation Management, 20 November 2019

Yukika Awazu, Stefania Mariano And Sue Newell. The mediating role of artifacts in position practice at work: Examples from a project-based context, Information And Management, June 2019

Stefania Mariano And Yukika Awazu. The role of collaborative knowledge building in the co-creation of artifacts: influencing factors and propositions, Journal Of Knowledge Management, 10 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017

Stefania Mariano And Suad Al-arrayed. Combinations of absorptive capacity metaroutines: The role of organizational disruptions and time constraints, European Management Journal, 17 March 2017

Stefania Mariano And Yukika Awazu. Artifacts in knowledge management research: a systematic literature review and future research directions, Journal Of Knowledge Management, 10 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016

Stefania Mariano And Andrea Casey. The dynamics of organizational routines in a startup: The EREDA model, European Management Review, 10 August 2016

Stefania Mariano And Andrea Casey. Is organizational innovation always a good thing?, Management Learning, 1 November 2015

Stefania Mariano And Christian Walter. The construct of absorptive capacity in knowledge management and intellectual capital research: Content and text analyses, Journal Of Knowledge Management, 7 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2015

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Remembering to forget: An investigation of intentional forgetting in diversity management, AUS, June 2019 - May 2021

Grant, The process of organizational forgetting: A qualitative case study of a Spanish web-based open source company, New York Institute of Technology, May 2009 - May 2011

Awards and Honors

Researcher of the Year Award 2023, School of Business Administration, AUS, 19 May 2023

Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Knowledge Management Research & Practice Journal, 22 December 2022

Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Paper, Emerald, 1 December 2021

European Management Review Best Papers List, 1 September 2017