Associate Professor (Senion Lecturer) in Marketing
University of Sussex Business School
Department of Strategy and Marketing, Falmer BN1 9SL
Telephone: +44 (0) 1273 67 8622
Email: m.restuccia @ sussex.ac.uk
Emerging Technologies, Innovation, Business-to-Business Marketing, Creative Industries
2016 PGCert in Higher Education, University of Sussex
2014 Ph.D. in Business Administration (Marketing), HEC Montréal
2007 Master of Science (Marketing), HEC Montréal
2004 Bachelor of Economics and Management for Arts, Culture and Communication cum laude, Bocconi University, Milan
2024-present Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marketing, University of Sussex
2014- 2024 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Marketing, University of Sussex
2018 Erasmus+ Teaching Exchange, University of Malta
2025-present Education and student lead, Dept of Strategy and Marketing
2021- current co-Lead of the Digital and Creative Economy Research Mobilizer Group
2018- 2020 Course Director of the International Marketing MSc
2015- 2017 Co-convenor of the Business and Enterprise Research Seminar Series
2015- 2017 Department representative, BMEc Marketing and Web Steering Committees
(i) Books and Book Chapters
-Masucci, Monica, Roberto Camerani, Mariachiara Restuccia, and Thomas Buckley (2025), “Funding organisations as sustainability catalysts in the Cultural and Creative Industries” in Elisa Salvador and Ilaria Pappalepore (Editors), Responsible Consumption and Production in the Creative and Cultural Industries, Routledge.
-Restuccia, Mariachiara and Jenny Double (2018), “Is Online Personalisation Important to Millennials? A UK Study in the Context of Personalised Search Engines” in Megan W. Gerhardt and Joy Van Eck Peluchette (Editors), Millennials: Trends, Characteristics, and Perspectives, Nova Science Publishers.
-Restuccia, Mariachiara (2018), Developing New Products for Arts and Culture, Book Section on “New Product Development in the Arts” in François Colbert (Editor), Marketing Culture and the Arts (5th Edition), HEC Montréal Press.
(ii) Journal Articles
-Boukis and Mariachiara Restuccia (forthcoming), “Developing a Strategic Typology of Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), Journal of Marketing Management, 1-24.
-Mogaji, Emmanuel, Mariachiara Restuccia, Zoe Lee and Nguyen Phong Nguyen, (2023) “Branding and positioning strategies of top performing B2B service brands in Africa”, Industrial Marketing Management, 108: 237-250.
-Legoux, Renaud and Mariachiara Restuccia (2019), “B2B Relationships on the Fast Track. An Empirical Investigation into the Outcomes of Solution Provision”, Industrial Marketing Management, 76: 203-213.
-Restuccia, Mariachiara, Ulrike de Brentani, Renaud Legoux, and Jean-François Ouellet (2016), “Product Lifecycle Management and Distributor Contribution to New Product Development”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 33(1): 69–89.
(iii). Manuscripts under review
-Piehlmaier, Dominik, Emanuela Stagno and Mariachiara Restuccia (2023). “Crypto Assets and Investor Overconfidence”, Under review, ABS 3 journal.
-Restuccia Mariachiara, Achilleas Boukis and Charles Hofacker (2022), “A macro view of NFT lifecycle”, Reject & Resubmit, ABS 4 journal.
-Restuccia, Mariachiara, Renaud Legoux, and Francesco Pasimeni, “Recognizing Channel Members: An Event Study Analysis”, Reject & Resubmit, ABS 4* journal
(iv). Manuscripts to be submitted
Restuccia, Mariachiara, Dennis Tourish and Zahira Jaser, “A critical analysis of pedagogical case studies of fallen corporate heroes”, Writing stage, Target journal: Academy of Management Learning & Education, ABS 4* journal
2024- present ““Do Business-to-Business new products developed by university spin-outs benefit from the “University Knowledge Inside” effect?”, £4,994.87, Academy of Marketing (AMRC2024-14), PI, with Co-PIs Matilde Lucheschi and Gianluca Memoli
2022- 2024: “Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): Evolution, revolution or fad in the creative industries? Evidence from UK creators and artists”, £ 9.194, British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant (SG2122\210380), PI, with Co-PIs Charles Hofacker and Guido Guerzoni.
Post-graduate level
University of Sussex: 116N1 Business-to-Business Marketing; 950N1 New Product Development Strategy; 727N1 Research Project International Marketing; 887N1 Marketing Strategy; 886N1 International Marketing Communications
HEC Montréal: 4-140-88 Marketing des organismes culturels
Undergraduate level:
University of Sussex: N1635 Business-to-Business Marketing Management; N1587 New Products Management; N1070 Marketing Strategy, N1505 Buyer Behaviour
HEC Montréal: 3-105-95 Gestion dans le contexte des entreprises artistiques; 2-100-00 Marketing
Supervision
2021- present: Yousef Alsharari (University of Sussex), with Chris Storey and Achilleas Boukis
Examination
August 2021: Martha Bloom (SPRU, University of Sussex), internal examiner
Institutes and Associations: Chartered Institute of Marketing, American Marketing Association, Product Development and Management Association, European Marketing Academy
Reviewer, Research Conferences: European Marketing Academy, International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journals: International Journal of Arts Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, European Journal of Marketing
English :Fluent; French: Fluent; Italian: Native speaker
SAS, SPSS, Eventus, Lisrel, Atlas TI, Nvivo, R