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Silvia Gherardi

Silvia Gherardi

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
51
Citations
22878
World Ranking
2497
National Ranking
23

Overview

Silvia Gherardi is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Cultural Studies, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Geography, Planning and Development.

Their work addresses a variety of topics within management and organizational studies, digital economy and work transformation, information systems theories and implementation, posthumanist ethics and activism, geographies of human-animal interactions, participatory visual research methods, and entrepreneurship studies and influences.

Recent notable papers authored by Silvia Gherardi include:

  • Responsible Management-as-Practice: Mobilizing a Posthumanist Approach (2021), Journal of Business Ethics
  • COVID-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices (2020), Gender Work and Organization
  • The fluid affective space of organizational practices (2023), Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal
  • A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship (2023), International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research
  • Unpacking researchers' embodied sensemaking: A diffractive reading-writing of Mann Gulch disaster (2023), Scandinavian Journal of Management

Silvia Gherardi's collaborations involve frequent coauthors such as Michela Cozza, Marta Β. Calás, Saija Katila, Susan Meriläinen, and Alice Wickström, with multiple joint works reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

The venues where Silvia Gherardi has published most frequently include:

  • Gender Work and Organization
  • Management Learning
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal
  • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

In addition to journal publications, Silvia Gherardi has contributed to book literature, including the publication titled Organization Studies and Posthumanism Towards a More-than-Human World (2024) released by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Best Publications

  • Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace Learning

    Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini

  • Toward a Social Understanding of How People Learn in Organizations: The Notion of Situated Curriculum

    Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini;Francesca Odella

  • Practice-Based Theorizing on Learning and Knowing in Organizations:

    Silvia Gherardi

  • Gender, symbolism and organizational cultures

    Silvia Gherardi

  • Knowing in organizations : a practice-based approach

    Davide Nicolini;Silvia Gherardi;Dvora Yanow

  • Doing Gender, Doing Entrepreneurship: An Ethnographic Account of Intertwined Practices

    Attila Bruni;Silvia Gherardi;Barbara Poggio

  • Entrepreneur‐mentality, gender and the study of women entrepreneurs

    Attila Bruni;Silvia Gherardi;Barbara Poggio

  • To Transfer is to Transform: The Circulation of Safety Knowledge

    Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini

  • How to Conduct a Practice-based Study: Problems and Methods

    Silvia Gherardi

  • Through the practice lens: Where is the bandwagon of practice-based studies heading?

    Gessica Corradi;Silvia Gherardi;Luca Verzelloni

  • The Gender We Think, The Gender We Do in Our Everyday Organizational Lives

    Silvia Gherardi

  • From Organizational Learning to Practice-Based Knowing

    Silvia Gherardi

  • Learning In A Constellation of Interconnected Practices: Canon or Dissonance?

    Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini

  • Organizational Learning: Diverging Communities of Practice?

    Mark Easterby-Smith;Robin Snell;Silvia Gherardi

  • The Organizational Learning of Safety in Communities of Practice

    Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini

  • Introduction: The Critical Power of the `Practice Lens':

    Silvia Gherardi

  • Gender and Entrepreneurship: An Ethnographic Approach

    Attila Bruni;Silvia Gherardi;Barbara Poggio

  • Learning as Problem-Driven or Learning in the Face of Mystery?:

    Silvia Gherardi

  • Creating and recreating gender order in organizations

    Silvia Gherardi;Barbara Poggio

  • Learning the Trade: A Culture of Safety in Practice:

    Silvia Gherardi;Davide Nicolini

Frequent Co-Authors

Davide Nicolini
Davide Nicolini University of Warwick
Dvora Yanow
Dvora Yanow Wageningen University & Research
Stephen Richard Billett
Stephen Richard Billett Griffith University
Yiannis Gabriel
Yiannis Gabriel University of Bath

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