Research Interests
Practice-based approaches to the study of knowing, learning, and change in organisations; innovation process in healthcare and other complex environments; advancement of action-based approaches to learning and change; study and promotion of safety
Teaching in 2020-2021
Distance Learning MBA
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IB802P: Organisational Behaviour
MSc Business
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IB9HN0: Research Methodology
MSc Central Banking and Financial Regulation
Postgraduate Research Business and Management
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IB9DV0: Collecting and Analysing Qualitative Data
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IM9080: DTC's Qualitative Research Methods
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IB9K30: Developing Management Research
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IB9GY0: Organization and Strategy
Biography
Previously worked at the University of Trento (Italy) and held a senior social scientist position at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London. Experience also in design and management of action-learning programmes and action-research based interventions.
Publications
Journal Articles
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Nicolini, D. and Korica, M. (2021) "Attentional engagement as practice : a study of the attentional infrastructure of healthcare CEOs", Organization Science
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Nicolini, D., Reinecke, J. and Ismail, A. M. (2020) "You're grounded! Towards a theory of enactive legitimation, materiality and practice", Research in the Sociology of Organizations , 67
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Pignot, E., Nicolini, D. and Thompson, M. (2020) "Affective politics and technology buy-in : a framework of social, political and fantasmatic logics", Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 21, 4, 901-935
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Langley, A., Lindberg, K., Mørk, B. E., Nicolini, D., Raviola, E. and Walter, L. (2019) "Boundary work among groups, occupations and organizations : from cartography to process", Academy of Management Annals, 13, 2, 704-736
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Mengis, J., Nicolini, D. and Swan, J. (2018) "Integrating knowledge in the face of epistemic uncertainty : dialogically drawing distinctions", Management Learning, 49, 5, 595-612
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Mengis, J., Nicolini, D. and Gorli, M. (2018) "The video production of space : how different recording practices matter", Organizational Research Methods, 21, 2, 288-315
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Nicolini, D., Mørk, B. E., Masovic, J. and Hanseth, O. (2018) "The changing nature of expertise : insights from the case of TAVI", Studies in Continuing Education, 40, 3, 306-322
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Korica, M., Nicolini, D. and Johnson, B. M. (2017) "In search of 'managerial work' : past, present and future of an analytical category", International Journal of Management Reviews, 19, 2, 151-174
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Swan, J., Gkeredakis, E., Manning, R. M., Nicolini, D., Sharp, D. and Powell, J. (2017) "Improving the capabilities of NHS organisations to use evidence : a qualitative study of redesign projects in Clinical Commissioning Groups", Health Services and Delivery Research, 5, 18, 1-112
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Nicolini, D., Delmestri, G., Goodrick, E., Reay, P., Lindberg, K. and Adolfsson, P. (2016) "Look what’s back! Institutional complexity, reversibility and the knotting of logics", British Journal of Management, 27, 2, 228-248
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Monteiro, P. d. N. and Nicolini, D. (2015) "Recovering materiality in institutional work : prizes as an assemblage of human and material entities", Journal of Management Inquiry, Volume 24, Number 1, 61-81
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Gorli, M., Nicolini, D. and Scaratti, G. (2015) "Reflexivity in practice : tools and conditions for developing organizational authorship", Human Relations, 68, 8, 1347-1375
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Nicolini, D., Korica, M. and Ruddle, K. (2015) "Staying in the know : overhauling your personal knowledge infrastructure", MIT Sloan Management Review, Volume 56, Number 4
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Taylor-Phillips, S., Clarke, A., Grove, A. L., Swan, J., Parsons, H., Gkeredakis, E., Mills, P., Powell, J., Nicolini, D., Roginski, C. and Scarbrough, H. (2014) "Coproduction in commissioning decisions : is there an association with decision satisfaction for commissioners working in the NHS? A cross-sectional survey 2010/2011", BMJ Open, Volume 4, Number 6, Article number e004810
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Clarke, A., Taylor-Phillips, S., Swan, J., Gkeredakis, E., Mills, P., Nicolini, D., Powell, J., Roginski, C., Scarbrough, H. and Grove, A. L. (2013) "Evidence-based commissioning in the English NHS : who uses which sources of evidence? A survey 2010/2011", BMJ Open, Volume 3, Number 5, Article number e002714
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Nicolini, D., Mengis, J. and Swan, J. (2012) "Understanding the role of objects in cross-disciplinary collaboration", Organization Science, Volume 23, Number 3, 612-629
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Nicolini, D., Waring, J. and Mengis, J. (2011) "Policy and practice in the use of root cause analysis to investigate clinical adverse events : mind the gap", Social Science & Medicine, Vol.73, No.2, 217-225
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Davide Nicolini (2011) "Practice as the site of knowing : insights from the field of telemedicine", Organization Science, Vol.22, No.3, 602-620
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Nicolini, D., Waring, J. and Mengis, J. (2011) "The challenges of undertaking root cause analysis in health care: a qualitative study", Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, Volume 16, Supplement 1, 34-41
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Eikeland, O. and Nicolini, D. (2011) "Turning practically : broadening the horizon", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Volume 24, Number 2, 164-174
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Nicolini, D., Hartley, J., Stansfield, A. and Hurcombe, J. (2011) "Through the eyes of others : using developmental peer reviews to promote reflection and change in organizations", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Volume 24, Number 2, 211-228
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Gkeredakis, E., Swan, J., Clarke, A., Powell, J., Nicolini, D., Scarbrough, H., Roginski, C. and Taylor-Phillips, S. (2011) "Mind the gap : understanding utilisation of evidence and policy in health care management practice", Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol.25, No.3, 298-314
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Davide Nicolini (2010) "Medical innovation as a process of translation : a case from the field of telemedicine", British Journal of Management, Vol.21, No.4, 1011-1026
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Davide Nicolini (2009) "Articulating practice through the interview to the double", Management Learning, Vol.40, No.2, 195-212
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Davide Nicolini (2009) "Zooming in and out : studying practices by switching theoretical lenses and trailing connections", Organization Studies, Vol.30, No.12, 1391-1418
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Davide Nicolini (2009) "Something old, something new and something puzzling : a commentary on the Schneider-Geiger and Schreyogg debate", Management Learning, Vol.40, No.4 Sp. Iss. SI, 487-492
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Nicolini, D., Powell, J., Conville, P. and Martinez-Solano, L. (2008) "Managing knowledge in the healthcare sector. A review", International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol.10, No.3, 245-263
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Gherardi, S., Nicolini, D. and Strati, A. (2007) "The passion for knowing", Organization, Vol.14, No.3, 315-329
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Davide Nicolini (2007) "Studying visual practices in construction", Building Research and Information, Vol.35, No.5, 576-580
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Scarbrough, H., Robertson, M., Swan, J. and Nicolini, D. (2007) "Introduction : organizational learning, knowledge and capabilities conference issue", Management Learning, Vol.38, No.3, 259-263
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Davide Nicolini (2007) "Stretching out and expanding work practices in time and space : the case of telemedicine", Human Relations, 60, 6, 889-920
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Davide Nicolini (2006) "The work to make telemedicine work: A social and articulative view", Social Science & Medicine, 62, 11, 2754-2767
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Nicolini, D. and Meznar, M. B. (1995) "The Social Construction of Organizational Learning : Conceptual and Practical Issues in the Field", Human Relations, 48, 7, 727-746
Book Items
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Korica, M. and Nicolini, D. (2019) "Tracing context as relational, discursive accomplishment : analytical lessons from a shadowing-based study of health care chief executives", Oxford University Press,
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Nicolini, D., Lippi, A. and Monteiro, P. (2019) "Systematic heterogeneity in the adaptation process of management innovations. Insights from the Italian public sector
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Davide Nicolini (2017) "Practice theory as a package of theory, method and vocabulary : affordances and limitations", 19-34, Springer International Publishing, Berlin
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Nicolini, D. and Monteiro, P. d. N. (2016) "The practice approach : for a praxeology of organizational and management studies", Sage, London
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Nicolini, D., Mengis, J., Meacheam, D., Waring, J. and Swan, J. (2016) "Recovering the performative role of innovations in the Global Travel of Healthcare Practices : is there a ghost in the machine?", 177 -198, Oxford: University Press, Oxford
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Davide Nicolini (2016) "Is small the only beautiful? Making sense of 'large phenomena' from a practise-based perspective", 98-113, Routledge, London ; New York
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Korica, M. and Nicolini, D. (2016) "Objects and monitoring practices : understanding CEOs’ information work as mundane accomplishment", 41-60, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Nicolini, D., Scarbrough, H. and Gracheva, J. (2015) "Communities of practice and situated learning in healthcare", OUP, Oxford
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Nicolini, D. and Roe, B. (2014) "Surfacing the multiple : diffractive methods for rethinking professional practice and knowledge", 67-81, Routledge, Abingdon
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Gkeredakis, E., Swan, J. and Nicolini, D. (2014) "Moral judgements as organizational accomplishments : insights from a focused ethnography in the English healthcare sector", 4, 293-324, Oxford University Press, Oxford
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Mengis, J. and Nicolini, D. (2011) "Challenges to learning from clinical adverse events : a study of root cause analysis in practice", Ashgate, Farnham
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Davide Nicolini (2009) "Zooming in and zooming out : a package of method and theory to study work practices", Sage, Los Angeles ; London
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Davide Nicolini (2007) "Hegemony", 580-582, Sage Publications Ltd., London, UK
Book
Report
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Swan, J., Clarke, A., Nicolini, D., Powell, J., Scarbrough, H., Roginski, C., Gkeredakis, E., Mills, P. and Taylor-Phillips, S. (2012) "Evidence in Management Decisions (EMD) : advancing knowledge utilization in healthcare management : final report"