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Selected publications

Article

Morlacchi, Piera (2021) The performative power of frictions and new possibilities: studying power, performativity and process with Follett’s pragmatism. Organization Studies. ISSN 0170-8406

Morlacchi, Piera (2020) Foodwork as re-articulation of women’s in/visible work: a study of food allergy blogs. Gender, Work & Organization. pp. 1-40. ISSN 0968-6673

Meyer, Martin, Grant, Kevin, Morlacchi, Piera and Weckowska, Dagmara (2014) Triple Helix indicators as an emergent area of enquiry: a bibliometric perspective. Scientometrics, 99 (1). pp. 151-174. ISSN 0138-9130

Morlacchi, Piera, Szasz, Carly A, Wade, Joanne, Frew, Anthony J and Smith, Helen E (2014) Allergy products traded on eBay, 2007-2012. Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, 112 (1). pp. 76-78. ISSN 1081-1206

Morlacchi, Piera and Nelson, Richard R (2011) How medical practice evolves: learning to treat failing heart with an implantable device. Research Policy, 40 (4). pp. 511-525. ISSN 0048-7333

Morlacchi, Piera and Martin, Ben R (2009) Emerging challenges for science, technology and innovation policy research: a reflexive overview. Research Policy, 38 (4). pp. 571-582. ISSN 0048-7333

Morlacchi, Piera (2007) A new solution suggesting the need for a new equation. Innovations: technology, governance, globalization, 2 (4). pp. 81-86. ISSN 1558-2477

Morlacchi, P, Wilkinson, I F and Young, L C (2005) Social Networks of Researchers in B2Business Marketing: A Case Study of the IMP Group 1984-1999. Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, 12 (1). pp. 3-34. ISSN 1051-712X

Morlacchi, Piera, Lamming, Richard and Wynstra, Finn (2002) Ipsera: Ten Years and Beyond. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 8 (1). pp. 63-70.

de Boer, Luitzen, Labro, Eva and Morlacchi, Piera (2001) A Review of Methods Supporting Supplier Selection. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 7 (2). pp. 75-89. ISSN 1478-4092

Book Section

Morlacchi, Piera (2020) Healthcare and innovation. In: Carayannis, Elias G (ed.) Encyclopedia of creativity, invention, innovation and entrepreneurship (second edition). Springer International. ISBN 9783319153469

Morlacchi, Piera and Nelson, Richard R (2015) The evolution of the left ventricular assist device as a treatment for heart failure. In: Consoli, David, Mina, Andrea, Nelson, Richard R and Ramlogan, Ronnie (eds.) Medical innovation: science, technology and practice. Routledge International Studies in Health Economics . Routledge, pp. 48-68. ISBN 9781138860346

Morlacchi, Piera and Nelson, Richard R (2015) The evolution of the left ventricular assist device as treatment for heart failure. In: Consoli, Davide, Mina, Andrea, Nelson, Richard R and Ramlogan, Ronnie (eds.) Medical innovation: science, technology and practice. Routledge international studies in health economics . Routledge, New York. ISBN 9781138860346

Morlacchi, Piera (2013) Healthcare and innovation. In: Carayannis, Elias G (ed.) Encyclopedia of creativity, invention, innovation and entrepreneurship. Springer, Berlin, pp. 832-838. ISBN 9781461438571

Morlacchi, Piera (2007) Schumpeterian Legacies for Entrepreneurship and Networks: The Social Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Action. In: Malerba, Franco and Brusoni, Stefano (eds.) Perspectives on Innovation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 333-351. ISBN 9780521685610

Morlacchi, P, Pavesi, S and Savoldelli, A (1998) SMEs in supply chain: a supplier evaluation model and some empirical results. In: Schönsleben, Paul and Büchel, Alfred (eds.) Organizing the extended enterprise: IFIP TC5 / WG5.7 International Working Conference on Organizing the Extended Enterprise 15–18 September 1997, Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland. Chapman & Hall; Kluwer Academic Publishers, London; Dordrecht, pp. 158-175. ISBN 9780412821400

Edited Special Journal Issue

Morlacchi, Piera and Martin, Ben R, eds. (2009) Special issue: emerging challenges for science, technology and innovation policy research: a reflexive overview. Research Policy, 38 (4). ISSN 0048-7333

Conference or Workshop Item

Morlacchi, Piera (2019) Power as performative regulation in entrepreneurial becoming: a pragmatist-interactionist perspective on entrepreneurship in accelerators. In: Enlightening the future: European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 2019 colloquium, 4-6 July 2019, Edinburgh, UK.

Maielli, Giuliano and Morlacchi, Piera (2019) Life at the fuzzy borders: platform leadership and innovation in humanoid robotics. In: European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics (EMAEE) 2019, 3-5 June 2019, University of Sussex.

Morlacchi, Piera (2018) Entrepreneurship accelerators as temporary and reinventive total institutions. In: Entrepreneurship-As-Practice Conference 3 (EAP3), 17th - 20th April 2018, Vaxjo, Sweden.

Morlacchi, Piera (2017) 'Ecological' project networks: working in project-networks and building inter-institutional fields at the Stanford Biodesign. In: The good organization: European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 2017 colloquium, 5-8 July 2017, Copenhagen.

Morlacchi, Piera (2016) The evolution of bionic bodies, devices and their social worlds. In: EASST/4S2016: Joint Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Aug 31 - Sep 3 2016, Barcelona, Spain.

Morlacchi, Piera (2015) From 'built to last' to 'built to sell': the evolution of new venture creation in the US pacemaker field (1949-2010). In: 2015 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 7-11, 2015, Vancouver.

Will, Catherine M, Morlacchi, Piera and Smith, Helen (2015) Making markets for Allergy Online. In: ESA 2015: 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, 25-28 Aug 2015, Prague.

Morlacchi, Piera (2015) Giving new innovative ventures a boost: an evaluation of the impact of a public entrepreneurship policy program. In: 35th Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), 10-13 Jun 2015, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Morlacchi, Piera (2015) Stories, standardized packages and meaningful translations of acceleration practices: the social organization of a startup accelerator. In: 10th Organization Studies (OS) Summer Workshop and Special Issue Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship, 21-23 May 2015, Crete, Greece.

Maffei, Laura and Morlacchi, Piera (2014) Giving new innovative ventures a boost: an evaluation of the impact of a public entrepreneurship policy programme. In: RENT XXVIII: Research in entrepreneurship and small business conference, 19-21 Nov 2014, Luxembourg.

Morlacchi, Piera (2014) Business canvasses, Macs and start-ups: the digital materiality of entrepreneurship practice and culture. In: RENT XXVIII: Research in entrepreneurship and small business conference, 19-21 Nov 2014, Luxembourg.

Morlacchi, Piera (2014) Visualization as institutionalization of in/visibles: pitching and accelerating in the digital start-up field. In: 30th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium, 3-5 Jul 2014, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Morlacchi, Piera (2013) Are you a maker? An ethnography of organizing in the field of arts and crafts. In: 8th Organization Studies Summer Workshop: Organization studies and the day to day life of cultures and communities, 23-25 May 2013, Myknonos, Greece.

Morlacchi, Piera (2012) An interactionist lens to make work visible in and around organizations. In: 1st European Theory Development Workshop in OMT, 28-29 Jun 2012, Grenoble, France.

Reports and working papers

Morlacchi, Piera (2015) Analisi del programma seed money: edizioni 2009 e 2011 / Analysis of seed money programme: editions 2009 and 2011. Project Report. Trentino Sviluppo, Rovereto, Italy.