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  1. Epistemic disobedience: introducing decoloniality in entrepreneurship theory through critical posthumanism

    Article • September 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  2. More-than-human intimacy: Learning to enact robotcare

    Article • Management Learning, April 2026, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  3. Acknowledgements, third edition

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  4. Contents

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  5. Copyright

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  6. How to Conduct a Practice-based Study

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  7. Introduction to How to Conduct a Practice-based Study

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  8. List of boxes

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  9. List of figures

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  10. List of tables

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  11. Practice as accomplishment

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  12. Practice as collective knowledgeable doing

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  13. Practice as sensible knowing

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  14. Practice as sociomateriality

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  15. Practices as socially sustained

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  16. Preface to the third edition

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  17. Talking while practising

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  18. The normative infrastructure of practice

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  19. The texture of practices

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  20. Theorizing a posthumanist practice approach

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  21. Tricks of the trade

    Article • March 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  22. Writing the fascination for extreme contexts: Darwin’s reverie

    Article • Culture and Organization, February 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  23. Affect-Based Well-Being in Caring Practices with Companion Robots

    Article • Journal of Service Research, October 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  24. Theorizing the processes and practices of entrepreneuring at work

    Article • Human Relations, March 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  25. What is the Place of the Human Being in Practice Theories?

    Article • The Journal of Practice Theory, March 2025, The Journal of Practice Theory

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  26. Atmospheres of care, coercion, and containment: An affective ethnography

    Article • Management Learning, February 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  27. Tackling Grand Challenges: Insights and Contributions From Practice Theories

    Article • Journal of Management Inquiry, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi, Mr Christian Alexander Mahringer

  28. Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies

    Article • Management Learning, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  29. Organization Studies and Posthumanism

    Article • January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  30. Feminism in organization studies? It is a long story: A conversation between Silvia Gherardi and Lynne Baxter

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, December 2023, Wiley

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  31. Posthuman feminism and feminist new materialism: towards an ethico-onto-epistemology in research practices

    Article • November 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  32. In the Practice Agencement

    Article • July 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  33. The fluid affective space of organizational practices

    Article • Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal, June 2023, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  34. Readingwriting: becoming-together in a Composition

    Article • Culture and Organization, May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  35. At the Crossroad of Phenomenology and Feminist New Materialism

    Article • January 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  36. Feminism under erasure in new feminist materialism as a case of symbolic manspreading

    Article • January 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  37. What to do about The Human in Organization Studies? Thinkingsayingdoing with the Anthropocene, pandemics, and thereafters

    Article • January 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  38. A Research Agenda for Organization Studies, Feminisms and New Materialisms

    Article • January 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  39. Emotions are important in academic life

    Article • January 2023, JSTOR

    Dr. Magnus Hoppe, Professor Silvia Gherardi

  40. Academy in my flesh: affective athleticism and performative writing

    Article • January 2023, Policy Press

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  41. The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  42. Introduction: The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  43. Book Review

    Article • Organization, December 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  44. Atmospheric Attunement in the Becoming of a Happy Object

    Article • September 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  45. In the Worlding of Kathleen Stewart

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  46. Entretien avec Silvia Gherardi et Antonio Strati

    Article • Revue internationale de psychosociologie et de gestion des comportements organisationnels - RIPCO, January 2022, CAIRN

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  47. Responsible Management-as-Practice: Mobilizing a Posthumanist Approach

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  48. Shadow organising as dwelling in the space of the ‘not-yet’

    Article • Studies in Continuing Education, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  49. From ‘normalcy’ to extreme context: the contribution of Elias Canetti to the understanding of risk dynamics

    Article • puntOorg International Journal, January 2021, PuntoOrg

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  50. COVID‐19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, September 2020, Wiley

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  51. Flesh-and-blood knowing

    Article • RAUSP Management Journal, October 2019, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  52. Tracking the sociomaterial traces of affect at the crossroads of affect and practice theories

    Article • Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal, August 2019, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  53. Theorizing affective ethnography for organization studies

    Article • Organization, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  54. Organizational communication in practice: Does it really work?

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, October 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  55. Practices and Knowledges

    Article • Teoria e Prática em Administração, August 2018, Portal de Periodicos UFPB

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  56. Tecnologia, lavoro e organizzazione: dallo studio del lavoro a quello delle pratiche lavorative

    Article • SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO, February 2018, Franco Angeli

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  57. The relevance of storywriting in order to afford processes of organizational change

    Article • The Learning Organization, January 2018, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi, Prof. Barbara Poggio

  58. Beyond Safety Training

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  59. Knowledge Management from a Social Perspective: The Contribution of Practice-Based Studies

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  60. Luigi Pareyson’sEstetica: Teoria della formativitàand Its Implications for Organization Studies

    Article • Academy of Management Review, October 2017, The Academy of Management

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  61. Shadow organizing: a metaphor to explore organizing as intra-relating

    Article • Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal, March 2017, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  62. One turn … and now another one: Do the turn to practice and the turn to affect have something in common?

    Article • Management Learning, February 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  63. To start practice theorizing anew: The contribution of the concepts of agencement and formativeness

    Article • Organization, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  64. Re-thinking induction in practice: profession, peer group and organization in contention

    Article • Society and Business Review, July 2016, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  65. Daughters taking over the family business

    Article • International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, March 2016, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  66. Reading the past to imagine the future

    Article • Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal, December 2015, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  67. How the Turn to Practice may contribute to Working Life Studies

    Article • Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, November 2015, Aarhus University Library

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  68. Caring as a collective knowledgeable doing: About concern and being concerned

    Article • Management Learning, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  69. L'in-sicurezza sul lavoro tra imposizioni formali e pratiche quotidiane: un'introduzione

    Article • STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI, September 2015, Franco Angeli

    Dr Annalisa Murgia, Professor Silvia Gherardi

  70. Why Kurt Wolff matters for a practice-based perspective of sensible knowledge in ethnography

    Article • Journal of Organizational Ethnography, March 2015, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  71. Learning: Organizational

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  72. Practice-based Learning in Higher Education

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  73. Conclusions: Towards an Understanding of Education as a Social Practice

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  74. Practice-Based Learning in Higher Education: Jostling Cultures

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  75. Gender and Entrepreneurship as An Intertwined Social Practice: Narratives of A Learning Trajectory

    Article • Business and Management Research, December 2014, Sciedu Press

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  76. What makes a “good manager”? Positioning gender and management in students’ narratives

    Article • Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International Journal, November 2014, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi, Annalisa Murgia, Dr Annalisa Murgia

  77. Editorial

    Article • Information Technology and People, October 2014, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  78. Imagine being asked to evaluate your CEO …: Using the constructive controversy approach to teach gender and management in times of economic crisis

    Article • Management Learning, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi, Dr Annalisa Murgia

  79. “I sign, therefore I am” (Un)stable traces of professional practices

    Article • Professions and Professionalism, June 2014, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  80. Between the hand and the head

    Article • Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal, June 2014, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  81. Becoming a Practitioner: Professional Learning as a Social Practice

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  82. Organizations as Symbolic Gendered Orders

    Article • December 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  83. Editors’ introduction: A practice-based view on the body, senses and knowing in organization

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Management, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  84. Staging precariousness: The Serpica Naro catwalk during the Milan Fashion Week

    Article • Culture and Organization, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi, Dr Annalisa Murgia

  85. Doing by Inventing the Way of Doing: Formativeness as the Linkage of Meaning and Matter

    Article • March 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  86. Is organizational learning possible without participation?

    Article • December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  87. Docta ignorantia: professional knowing at the core and at the margins of a practice

    Article • Journal of Education and Work, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  88. Why Do Practices Change and Why Do They Persist? Models of Explanations

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  89. How to Conduct a Practice-based Study

    Article • January 2012, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  90. By Hook or By Crook: Flexible Workers between Exploration and Exploitation

    Article • January 2012, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  91. Comptes rendus

    Article • Sociologie du Travail, October 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  92. Egg dates sperm: a tale of a practice change and its stabilization

    Article • Organization, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

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

    Article • Management Learning, May 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  94. Where is induction? Profession, peer group and organization in contention

    Article • Society and Business Review, February 2010, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  95. Practice? It’s a Matter of Taste!

    Article • Management Learning, October 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  96. Knowing and learning in practice‐based studies: an introduction

    Article • The Learning Organization, July 2009, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  97. Introduction: The Critical Power of the `Practice Lens'

    Article • Management Learning, April 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  98. Gendered Organizational Cultures: Narratives of Women Travellers in a Male World

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, June 2008, Wiley

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  99. « aujourd'hui les plaques sont molles ! »

    Article • Revue d anthropologie des connaissances, January 2008, CAIRN

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  100. Knowing in a System of Fragmented Knowledge

    Article • Mind Culture and Activity, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  101. Feminist Theory and Organization Theory: A Dialogue on New Bases

    Article • March 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  102. An ethnographic study of the gender structuring of entrepreneurship

    Article • December 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Barbara Poggio, Professor Silvia Gherardi

  103. Gender and entrepreneurship as situated practices

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, July 2004, Wiley

    Prof. Barbara Poggio, Professor Silvia Gherardi

  104. Entrepreneur‐mentality, gender and the study of women entrepreneurs

    Article • Journal of Organizational Change Management, June 2004, Emerald

    Prof. Barbara Poggio, Professor Silvia Gherardi

  105. Translating Knowledge While Mending Organisational Safety Culture

    Article • Risk Management, April 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  106. Knowing as desiring. Mythic knowledge and the knowledge journey in communities of practitioners

    Article • Journal of Workplace Learning, December 2003, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

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

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, June 2002, Wiley

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  108. Learning the Trade: A Culture of Safety in Practice

    Article • Organization, May 2002, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  109. Rules and the rituals by which gender is created and recreated in organisations

    Article • Journal of World Business, September 2001, Elsevier

    Prof. Barbara Poggio, Professor Silvia Gherardi

  110. Learning: Organizational

    Article • January 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  111. From Organizational Learning to Practice-Based Knowing

    Article • Human Relations, January 2001, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  112. On Becoming an ‘Energy Efficient Company’: The Adoption of an Advanced Energy System in an Italian Plastic Manufacturer

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  113. Managerialese as the Latin of our times: reforming Italian public sector organizations

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Management, December 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  114. Practice-Based Theorizing on Learning and Knowing in Organizations

    Article • Organization, May 2000, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  115. The Organizational Learning of Safety in Communities of Practice

    Article • Journal of Management Inquiry, March 2000, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  116. A symbolic approach to competence development

    Article • Human Resource Development International, December 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  117. Man-Made Disasters20 years later: Critical commentary

    Article • Health Risk & Society, July 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  118. Learning as Problem-Driven or Learning in the Face of Mystery?

    Article • Organization Studies, January 1999, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  119. COMPETENCE — THE SYMBOLIC PASSE-PARTOUT TO CHANGE IN A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Management, December 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  120. What Do You Mean By Safety? Conflicting Perspectives on Accident Causation and Safety Management in a Construction Firm

    Article • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, December 1998, Wiley

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  121. Organizational Learning: Diverging Communities of Practice?

    Article • Management Learning, September 1998, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  122. Toward a Social Understanding of How People Learn in Organizations

    Article • Management Learning, September 1998, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  123. Gendered Organizational Cultures: Narratives of Women Travellers in a Male World

    Article • Gender Work and Organization, October 1996, Wiley

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  124. When will he say: “Today the plates are soft”? the management of ambiguity and situated decision-making

    Article • Studies in Cultures Organizations and Societies, June 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  125. THE 'TEXTURE' OF ORGANIZING IN AN ITALIAN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT*

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, November 1990, Wiley

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  126. WORKER TAKEOVER: ONLY AS A LAST RESORT?

    Article • Management Research News, April 1989, Emerald

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  127. The Temporal Dimension in Organizational Studies

    Article • Organization Studies, April 1988, SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  128. Community of Practice or Practices of a Community?

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  129. Practising Inclusion: Diversity Matters!

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  130. Spiral Case Study

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  131. A Journey Beyond Institutional Knowledge: Dante’s Reading of the Odyssey

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  132. Situated Knowledge and Situated Action: What do Practice-Based Studies Promise?

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Silvia Gherardi

  133. Gender, ethnicity and social entrepreneurship: qualitative approaches to the study of entrepreneuring

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Silvia Gherardi