Dr Eugenia Cacciatori

About

Overview

Eugenia’s interests center around the creation and operation of complex, science- and technology-intensive products. At micro-level, she investigates the role of objects, such as physical and virtual models, on the knowledge creation and exchange processes, particularly among scientists and engineers. At macro level, she is interested in the evolving pattern of division of labor and cospecialization in industries. Her research interests include:
• Catastrophe models and the protection gap
• Emergence, stabilization and replication of organizational routines
• Digital technologies and the material context of organizing
• The organizational processes of innovation
• Coordination in knowledge intensive work
• Organizing for high-reliability
• Learning and innovation in project-based contexts.

Eugenia holds a PhD in Science and Technology Policy and an MSc in Technology and Innovation Management, both from SPRU (University of Sussex). She graduated in Industrial Engineering with Management at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Before joining Cass, Eugenia was Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich and, previously, Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, where she was also a fellow in the research centers CRORA and CROMA.

Eugenia’s research has been published in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies and Research Policy. She has extensive teaching experiences in the broad areas of organization studies and innovation.

Languages

Italian.

Expertise

Primary topics

• Innovation & Creativity
• Knowledge Management
• Organization Theory

Research

Research topics

Publications

1. Turner, S. and Cacciatori, E. (2016). The multeplicity of habit: Implications for routines research. In Howard-Grenville, J., Rerup, C. and Tsoukas, H. (Eds.), Organizational Routines: How They Are Created, Maintained, and Changed (pp. 71–95). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-875948-5.
2. Cacciatori, E. and Prencipe, A. Project-based Temporary Organizing and Routine Dynamics. In Feldmam, M., Pentland, B., D'Adderio, L., Dittrich, K., Rerup, C. and Seidl, D. (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Routines Dynamics Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Cacciatori, E., Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R. and Chalkias, K. (2019). What's in a model? Computer simulations and the management of ignorance. Proceedings of the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2019(1). doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2019.250.
4. Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R., Chalkias, K. and Cacciatori, E. (2019). Exploring inter-organizational paradoxes: Methodological lessons from a study of a grand challenge. Strategic Organization, 17(1), pp. 120–132. doi:10.1177/1476127018805345.
5. Davies, A., Frederiksen, L., Cacciatori, E. and Hartmann, A. (2018). The long and winding road: Routine creation and replication in multi-site organizations. Research Policy, 47(8), pp. 1403–1417. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2018.04.016.
6. Heinzen, M., Cacciatori, E., Zoller, F.A. and Boutellier, R. (2018). Who talks to whom about what? How interdisciplinary communication and knowledge of expertise distribution improve in integrated R&D labs. Ergonomics, 61(8), pp. 1139–1153.
7. Jarzabkowski, P., Chalkias, K., Cacciatori, E. and Bednarek, R. (2018). Between State and Market: Protection Gap Entities and Catastrophic Risk..

Professional activities