Maja Korica

• Research Fellow

Maja Korica is a Research Fellow at the Unit for the study of Innovation, Knowledge and Organisational Networks (IKON). She is working on the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) SDO-funded project entitled The Organisational Practices of Knowledge Mobilisation at Top Manager Level in the NHS, with Davide Nicolini (WBS) and John Powell (WMS). The study looks closely at the use of knowledge and evidence by NHS trust chief executives in their decision-making, and more generally into the nature of their everyday work. As part of the study, she is spending considerable time in organizations, closely observing the daily practices and interactions of individual chief executives.

She completed her DPhil (PhD) in Management Studies at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis explored corporate governance and accountability in the public sector via direct observation of board and other committee meetings, as a counter-point to dominant scholarly accounts focused on governance structures and detached, normative pronouncements. Based on rare and extensive access to three UK public organizations - a research-intensive university, a think tank and a regulator (an NDPB) - the study stands as one of few existing academic accounts of what happens behind closed doors of boardrooms.

Corporate governance and accountability, Regulation, Public sector and sphere, Managerial work, Practice-based approaches to the study of organizations, Dramaturgy, Rituals and ceremonies of organizational life, Interpretive research methods (particularly ethnography).