Post-Doc, Warwick Business School
Research Fellow
Thesis Title: Performing governance and accountability in the public sphere: An ethnography of situated orderings
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Paolo Quattrone
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About
For my postdoctoral appointment at Warwick Business School, I am working with Davide Nicolini (WBS) and John Powell (WMS) on a two-year study of knowledge mobilization and managerial work practices of Chief Executives in healthcare. Based on intensive shadowing over a longer period of time of six to eight NHS trust CEOs, the project in part aims to give a nuanced answer to a foundational management studies question, namely what is it that (executive) managers do?
My doctoral thesis at the Said Business School, Oxford was based on ethnographic explorations of governance and accountability as practiced in three different UK organizations in the public sphere that define and enact particular definitions of 'right' and 'wrong', namely a university, a think tank and a 'quango' (arms-length public agency). Informed by the work of scholars like Goffman, Garfinkel, Law, and Weick, the thesis advanced a view of governance and accountability as continually, yet tentatively accomplished in everyday interactions of organizational members.
Very happy to be in touch with colleagues conducting ethnographies, shadowing and other qualitative research in organizations to discuss methods and doings (or just chat), as well as those interested in practice-based approaches to the study of organizations.
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