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Marcello M. Mariani

Marcello M. Mariani

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
53
Citations
9784
World Ranking
831
National Ranking
12

Overview

Marcello M. Mariani is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has a significant body of research focused primarily within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences. Their work spans subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Marketing, Strategy and Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Systems and Management.

The research topics covered by Mariani prominently include Digital Marketing and Social Media, Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research, Technology Adoption and User Behaviour, AI in Service Interactions, Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification, Big Data and Business Intelligence, and Innovation and Knowledge Management.

Mariani's recent scholarly contributions include:

  • AI in marketing, consumer research and psychology: A systematic literature review and research agenda (2021, Psychology and Marketing)
  • Artificial intelligence in innovation research: A systematic review, conceptual framework, and future research directions (2022, Technovation)
  • Exploring how consumer goods companies innovate in the digital age: The role of big data analytics companies (2020, Journal of Business Research)
  • Artificial intelligence empowered conversational agents: A systematic literature review and research agenda (2023, Journal of Business Research)

One additional relevant paper is co-authored by Stefano Elia but frequently appears in related research contexts: Resources and digital export: An RBV perspective on the role of digital technologies and capabilities in cross-border e-commerce (2021, Journal of Business Research).

Mariani has contributed extensively to publication venues including the Journal of Business Research, with 20 publications, followed by the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Psychology and Marketing.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mariani are:

  • Sheshadri Chatterjee
  • Matteo Borghi
  • Samuel Fosso Wamba
  • Shahriar Akter
  • Jochen Wirtz

Mariani's work integrates interdisciplinary approaches, examining the influence of artificial intelligence and digital technologies on consumer behavior, marketing strategies, innovation processes, and service interactions within various business domains.

Best Publications

  • Facebook as a destination marketing tool: Evidence from Italian regional Destination Management Organizations

    Marcello Maria Mariani;Marco Di Felice;Matteo Mura

  • Artificial intelligence in innovation research: A systematic review, conceptual framework, and future research directions

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  • Business intelligence and big data in hospitality and tourism : A systematic literature review

    Marcello Mariani;Rodolfo Baggio;Matthias Fuchs;Wolfram Höpken

  • Resources and digital export: an RBV perspective on the role of digital technologies and capabilities in cross-border e-commerce

    Stefano Elia;Maria Giuffrida;Marcello M. Mariani;Stefano Bresciani

  • Coopetition as an Emergent Strategy: Empirical Evidence from an Italian Consortium of Opera Houses

    Marcello Maria Mariani

  • Industry 4.0: A bibliometric review of its managerial intellectual structure and potential evolution in the service industries

    Marcello Mariani;Matteo Borghi

  • Types of innovation and artificial intelligence: A systematic quantitative literature review and research agenda

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  • Exploring how consumer goods companies innovate in the digital age: the role of big data analytics companies

    Marcello Mariani;S Fosso Wamba

  • Generative artificial intelligence in innovation management: A preview of future research developments

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  • Managing change in tourism destinations : key issues and current trends

    Marcello M. Mariani;Dimitrios Buhalis;Christian Longhi;Ourania Vitouladiti

  • Behavioral antecedents of coopetition: A synthesis and measurement scale

    Wojciech Czakon;Patrycja Klimas;Marcello Mariani

  • Big data and analytics in hospitality and tourism: a systematic literature review

    Marcello Mariani;Rodolfo Baggio

  • Corporate social responsibility in family firms: A systematic literature review

    Marcello M. Mariani;Marcello M. Mariani;K Al-Sultan;A De Massis

  • Understanding the intention to buy secondhand clothing on sharing economy platforms: The influence of sustainability, distance from the consumption system, and economic motivations

    Maria Ek Styvén;Marcello M. Mariani

  • Adoption of AI-empowered industrial robots in auto component manufacturing companies

    Rajasshrie Pillai;Brijesh Sivathanu;Marcello Mariani;Nripendra P. Rana

  • Online reviews: Differences by submission device

    Marcello M. Mariani;Matteo Borghi;Ulrike Gretzel

  • Unmasking the other face of flexible working practices: A systematic literature review

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  • Coordination in inter-network co-opetitition: Evidence from the tourism sector

    Marcello M. Mariani

  • Innovation Analytics and Digital Innovation Experimentation: The Rise of Research-driven Online Review Platforms

    Marcello M. Mariani;Marcello M. Mariani;Satish Nambisan

  • The determinants of Facebook social engagement for national tourism organizations' Facebook pages: A quantitative approach

    Marcello M. Mariani;Matteo Mura;Marco Di Felice

  • Effects of the Booking.com rating system: Bringing hotel class into the picture

    Marcello M. Mariani;Matteo Borghi

  • Unpacking the temporal dimension of coopetition in tourism destinations: evidence from Finnish and Italian theme parks

    Mika Kylanen;Marcello M. Mariani

  • Big Data and analytics in tourism and hospitality: a perspective article

    Marcello Mariani

  • Customers’ evaluation of mechanical artificial intelligence in hospitality services: a study using online reviews analytics

    Marcello Mariani;Matteo Borghi

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodolfo Baggio
Rodolfo Baggio Bocconi University
Dimitrios Buhalis
Dimitrios Buhalis Bournemouth University
Marco Di Felice
Marco Di Felice University of Bologna
Stefano Bresciani
Stefano Bresciani University of Turin
Fevzi Okumus
Fevzi Okumus University of South Carolina
Girish Prayag
Girish Prayag University of Canterbury
Raffaele Filieri
Raffaele Filieri Audencia Business School
Ulrike Gretzel
Ulrike Gretzel University of Southern California
Paolo Ciancarini
Paolo Ciancarini University of Bologna
Satish Nambisan
Satish Nambisan Case Western Reserve University

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