Prof. Davide Nicolini Professor of Organization Studies, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK

Davide Nicolini is Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School. He co-directs the IKON Research Centre at Warwick Business School and the Warwick Institute of Health. Prior to joining the University of Warwick he held positions at The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London and the University of... read moreTrento and Bergamo in Italy. His work has appeared in journals such as Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Management Learning, and Social Science and Medicine and many others. From 2009 he has been Editor of Management Learning. His research interests include the development of a practice-based approach and its application to the understanding of knowing, collaboration, and change in organizations. He currently focuses on health care but also studied construction sites, engineering firms, factories, labs and public organizations. Most of the topics covered in this talk are discussed in his recent book Practice Theory, Work and organization. An Introduction (Oxford U. Press 2012).