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Francesca Mariotti

Department: Marketing and Strategy

Office/Location: Room 01.46, Ogmore Building, Cardiff School of Management, Llandaff Campus

Telephone: +44 (0)29

Email: fmariotti@cardiffmet.ac.uk

Staff Overview

Francesca is Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at Cardiff Metropolitan University where she teaches courses in strategic management and international business.

Francesca’s research focuses on the nature, content, and evolution of interorganizational networks in high technology environments.

Francesca earned her PhD from Cardiff University where her research was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Her research has been published in highly ranked academic journals such as Organization Science, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Knowledge Management, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management and the European Business Review. She received research awards including the AOM TIM Division Best Doctoral Dissertation (2004) and the EDAMBA best doctoral dissertation (2004). She was also a finalist for the TUM Research Excellence Award (2008) where she received an Honourable Mention Award.

Before joining Cardiff Metropolitan University, she has worked as an Assistant Professor at King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia).

Teaching

Research

My research focuses on the nature, content, and evolution of interorganizational networks in high technology environments. Through detailed field studies in the European motorsport industry (including Formula 1, Le Mans, Nascar and Indy racing) combining historical, retrospective, real time data and theoretical insights, I try to understand (1) how do interorganizational networks evolve over time, (2) what are the drivers of network dynamics, and (3) how do companies promote network diversity and recombinant innovation in order to achieve higher performance. In addressing these questions, I challenge existing theory and offer insights about how different network architectures, entrepreneurial ventures and contexts may enable managers to execute heterogeneous opportunities.

Key Publications

Refereed Journals

Mariotti, F. and Haider, S. 2020. Managing institutional diversity and structural holes: Network configurations for recombinant innovation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 160, forthcoming.

Haider, S. and Mariotti, F. 2020. The speed of learning and learning forces. Knowledge and Process Management, 27 (2): 93-102.

Mariotti, F. and Haider, S. 2018. Networks of practice in the Italian Motorsport Industry. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 30 (3):351-362.

Haider, S. and Mariotti, F. 2016. The orchestration of alliance portfolios: The role of alliance portfolio capability. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 32 (3): 127-141.

Haider, S. and Mariotti, F. 2016. Unfolding Critical Events and Strategic Decisions: The Role of Spatial and Temporal Cognition. Management Decision, 54 (7): 1813-1842.

Mariotti, F. and Delbridge, R. 2012. Overcoming network overload and redundancy in inter-organizational networks: The roles of potential and latent ties. Organization Science, 23 (2): 511-528.

Mariotti, F. 2011. Knowledge mediation and overlapping in inter-firm networks. Journal of Knowledge Management, 15 (6): 875-889.

Delbridge, R. and Mariotti, F. 2010. Racing for Radical Innovation. European Business Review. May/June.

Other Publications

Delbridge, R. and Mariotti, F. 2009. Staying on track. The Engineer, 17 June.

Delbridge, R. and Mariotti, F. 2009. Racing for Radical Innovation. Executive Report. Advanced Institute of Management Research.

Mariotti, F. Delbridge, R. and Munday, M. 2004. Networks of Learning: How Motorsport Companies Collaborate and Share Knowledge. Evidence from the UK and Italian Motorsport Industries. Cardiff University and Advanced Institute of Management Research.

Book chapters

Mariotti F., Yaqub M.Z., Haider S. 2019. The Co-evolution of Clusters and the Role of Trans-local Linkages. In: Windsperger J., Cliquet G., Hendrikse G., Srećković M. (eds) Design and Management of Interfirm Networks. Contributions to Management Science. Springer.

Other Projects and activities

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