Davide Nicolini

13.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
98 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Davide Nicolini is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Davide Nicolini has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Davide Nicolini's work include Management and Organizational Studies (35 papers), Information Systems Theories and Implementation (12 papers) and Organizational Learning and Leadership (8 papers). Davide Nicolini is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (35 papers), Information Systems Theories and Implementation (12 papers) and Organizational Learning and Leadership (8 papers). Davide Nicolini collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Norway. Davide Nicolini's co-authors include Silvia Gherardi, Jeanne Mengis, Francesca Odella, Mark Easterby‐Smith, Mary Crossan, Jacky Swan, Martin B. Meznar, John Powell, Richard Holti and Kajsa Lindberg and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Organization Science and MIS Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Davide Nicolini

89 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

Practice Theory, Work, an... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2013 2009 2000 2006 2011 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Practice Theory, Work, and Organization: An Introduction
    2013 959 citations Davide Nicolini profile →
  2. Zooming In and Out: Studying Practices by Switching Theoretical Lenses and Trailing Connections
    2009 602 citations Davide Nicolini profile →
  3. Organizational Learning: Debates Past, Present And Future
    2000 528 citations Davide Nicolini et al. profile →
  4. Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace Learning
    2006 526 citations Silvia Gherardi, Davide Nicolini Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento) profile →
  5. Understanding the Role of Objects in Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
    2011 398 citations Davide Nicolini, Jeanne Mengis et al. Organization Science profile →
  6. Boundary Work among Groups, Occupations, and Organizations: From Cartography to Process
    2019 235 citations Kajsa Lindberg, Davide Nicolini et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Davide Nicolini 2.4k 1.9k 1.8k 862 730 98 7.4k
Silvia Gherardi 3.4k 1.4× 2.4k 1.3× 1.3k 0.7× 514 0.6× 394 0.5× 122 8.0k
Jörgen Sandberg 2.2k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 568 0.7× 353 0.5× 51 6.3k
Wayne F. Cascio 4.7k 2.0× 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 618 0.7× 1.0k 1.4× 144 9.8k
Ricky W. Griffin 4.4k 1.9× 2.0k 1.1× 1.8k 1.0× 361 0.4× 777 1.1× 98 9.4k
Gregory B. Northcraft 3.0k 1.3× 3.0k 1.6× 1.4k 0.8× 781 0.9× 251 0.3× 105 9.7k
Jean M. Bartunek 4.7k 2.0× 2.0k 1.1× 2.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 840 1.2× 159 9.2k
Achilles A. Armenakis 4.7k 2.0× 1.3k 0.7× 2.1k 1.2× 793 0.9× 986 1.4× 105 8.8k
David Obstfeld 2.3k 1.0× 1.8k 1.0× 2.3k 1.3× 833 1.0× 442 0.6× 26 7.3k
Ronald F. Piccolo 5.9k 2.5× 1.9k 1.0× 1.6k 0.9× 394 0.5× 619 0.8× 38 9.6k
Deanne N. Den Hartog 7.6k 3.2× 2.3k 1.2× 2.5k 1.4× 554 0.6× 777 1.1× 120 12.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nicolini, Davide, et al.. (2024). Structured shadowing as a pedagogy. Management Learning. 56(2). 206–232. 3 indexed citations
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Jarzabkowski, Paula, et al.. (2023). Practicing Impact and Impacting Practice? Creating Impact Through Practice-Based Scholarship. Journal of Management Inquiry. 33(3). 230–243. 4 indexed citations
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Omidvar, Omid, Igor Pyrko, Matt Beane, et al.. (2023). Understanding Communities of Practice: Taking Stock and Moving Forward. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2023(1). 3 indexed citations
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Nicolini, Davide, et al.. (2023). How insights from the field of information behavior can enrich understanding of knowledge mobilization. Journal of Health Organization and Management. 37(2). 194–212. 2 indexed citations
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Nicolini, Davide & Jeanne Mengis. (2023). Toward a practice-theoretical view of the situated nature of attention. Strategic Organization. 22(1). 211–234. 12 indexed citations
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Nicolini, Davide, et al.. (2021). Attentional Engagement as Practice: A Study of the Attentional Infrastructure of Healthcare Chief Executive Officers. Organization Science. 32(5). 1273–1299. 47 indexed citations
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Nicolini, Davide, et al.. (2020). Affective Politics and Technology Buy-In: A Framework of Social, Political, and Fantasmatic Logics. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 21. 901–935. 5 indexed citations
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Nicolini, Davide, et al.. (2016). Communities of Practice and Situated Learning in Health Care. Oxford University Press eBooks. 21 indexed citations
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Nicolini, Davide, et al.. (2015). Staying in the know. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 56(4). 57–65. 2 indexed citations
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Taylor‐Phillips, Sian, Aileen Clarke, Amy Grove, et al.. (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. 4(6). e004810–e004810. 7 indexed citations
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Clarke, Aileen, Sian Taylor‐Phillips, Jacky Swan, et al.. (2013). Evidence-based commissioning in the English NHS: who uses which sources of evidence? A survey 2010/2011. BMJ Open. 3(5). e002714–e002714. 28 indexed citations
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Nicolini, Davide. (2012). The social theories of practice underpinning the strategy-as-practice. ˜The œbusiness & management collection.. 2012(8). e1003313–e1003313. 2 indexed citations
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Swan, Jacky, John Powell, Davide Nicolini, et al.. (2011). Mind the gap. Journal of Health Organization and Management. 25(3). 298–314. 26 indexed citations
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Nicolini, Davide, Justin Waring, & Jeanne Mengis. (2011). Policy and practice in the use of root cause analysis to investigate clinical adverse events: Mind the gap. Social Science & Medicine. 73(2). 217–225. 85 indexed citations
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Mengis, Jeanne & Davide Nicolini. (2010). Root cause analysis in clinical adverse events. Nursing Management. 16(9). 16–20. 10 indexed citations
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Nicolini, Davide, et al.. (2009). Institutional logics and material practices : international comparisons of retail pharmacy. 2 indexed citations
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Nicolini, Davide. (2005). The work to make telemedicine work: A social and articulative view. Social Science & Medicine. 62(11). 2754–2767. 146 indexed citations
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Bertoncello, Paolo, et al.. (2003). Bacteriorhodopsin-based Langmuir-Schaefer films for solar energy capture. IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience. 2(2). 124–132. 22 indexed citations
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Gherardi, Silvia & Davide Nicolini. (1999). La circolazione delle innovazioni come processo di traslazione. Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento).

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