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Dr Eugenia Cacciatori

Reader in Management

Bayes Business School , Faculty of Management

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Overview

Eugenia interests are in the organizational processes of innovation. She investigates the role of objects, such as physical and digital models, in knowledge creation and exchange within and across organizations in science and technology intensive settings. She is also interested in how key organizations shape and coordinate innovation in a field, an area she has explored in relation to the development of HIV vaccines and more recently disaster insurance and resilience.

Her research interests include:

• Catastrophe models and the insurance protection gap

• Organizations and schemes to coordinate adaptation and resilience in the face of the growing losses from disasters

• The ethics of technology - in particular AI ethics and transparency

• Emergence, stabilization and replication of organizational routines (stable organizational processes) in the context of technological or organizational innovation

• 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 Bayes, 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 the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies and Research Policy.

She is part of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice (City) and the Ethics Community of Digital Society Initiative (UZH).

Eugenia has extensive teaching experiences in the areas of innovation and organization at undergraduate, MSc and MBA levels. She currently teaches in the areas of technology and innovation management, digital technologies and design thinking.

She is Co-Director of the Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership (MICL). She is also member of Bayes' Learning and Teaching Committee and was in Bayes' Task Force on AI and Teaching.

Languages

Italian

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Innovation & Creativity
  • Organization Theory
  • Non-life Insurance

Research

Research topics

Emergence, stability and change in organizational routines

The insurance protection gap for catastrophes - modelling and organizational solutions

Digital technologies and innovation

Publications

  1. Viganò, E., Hauser, C., Cacciatori, E., Ferrario, A. and Sedlakova, J. (2025). Mapping and Mitigating the Pains of Responsible Artificial Intelligence Implementation: An Analysis of Swiss Organizations. 2025 IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS) 26-27 June.doi:10.1109/sds66131.2025.00023
  2. Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R., Chalkias, K., Cacciatori, E., Kavas, M., Krull, E.... Gallagher Rodgers, R. (2025). Translating, co-creating, and performing: Reflections on a 15-year journey for impact into the grand challenge of disaster insurance. Strategic Organization, 23(1), pp. 79-97. doi:10.1177/14761270231218094

    [publisher’s website]

  3. Cacciatori, E. and Prencipe, A. (2023). Projects, capabilities, and innovation: Rome’s Jubilee as vanguard project for the Italian Civil Protection Department. In Davies, A., Lenfle, S., Loch, C.H. and Midler, C. (Eds.), Handbook of Innovation and Project Management (pp. 393-407). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781789901795.
  4. Jarzabkowski, P., Chalkias, K., Cacciatori, E. and Bednarek, R. (2023). Disaster Insurance Reimagined Protection in a Time of Increasing Risk. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192865168.
  5. Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R., Chalkias, K. and Cacciatori, E. (2022). Enabling Rapid Financial Response to Disasters: Knotting and Reknotting Multiple Paradoxes in Interorganizational Systems. Academy of Management Journal, 65(5), pp. 1477-1506. doi:10.5465/amj.2019.0745

    [publisher’s website]

  6. 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

    [publisher’s website]

  7. Jarzabkowski, P., Chalkias, K., Cacciatori, E. and Bednarek, R. (2018). Between State and Market: Protection Gap Entities and Catastrophic Risk..

Chapters (6)

  1. Cacciatori, E. and Prencipe, A. (2021). 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 (pp. 407-420). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. In Feldman, M.S., Pentland, B.T., D'Adderio, L., Dittrich, K., Rerup, C. and Seidl, D. (Eds.), (2021). Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics. In Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108834476.
  3. 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 9780198759485.
  4. Cacciatori, E. and Grandori, A. (2011). Networked Resource Access and Networked Growth: A Double Network Hypothesis on the Innovative Entrepreneurial Firm. In Tuunanen, M., Windsperger, J., Cliquet, G. and Hendrikse, G. (Eds.), New Developments in the Theory of Networks Franchising, Alliances and Cooperatives (pp. 239-257). Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9783790826159.
  5. Cacciatori, E., Orsenigo, L. and Brusoni, S. (2008). Beyond market failures: IAVI and the organizational challenges of vaccine development. In Matlin, S.A., de Francisco, A., Sundaram, L., Faich, H. and Gehner, M. (Eds.), Health Partnerships Review (pp. 46-48). Geneva: Global Forum for Health Research. ISBN 9782940401055.
  6. Cacciatori, E., Chataway, J., Brusoni, S., Hanlin, R. and Orsenigo, L. (2008). The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in a changing landscape of vaccine development: A public private partnership as knowledge broker and integrator. In Wuyts, M., Chataway, J. and Mackintosh, M. (Eds.), Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty Routledge. ISBN 9780415465281.

Conference paper and proceedings

  1. Cacciatori, E., Fenoglio, E. and Kazim, E. (2023). Living with Opaque Technologies: Insights for AI from Digital Simulations. EWAF’23: European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness 7-9 June, Winterthur, Switzerland.

Journal articles (10)

  1. Cacciatori, E., Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R. and Chalkias, K. (2026). From Steering to Rowing: Public Sector Solutions for the Grand Challenge of Climate Adaptation. Academy of Management Discoveries. doi:10.5465/amd.2024.0097

    [publisher’s website]

  2. Bednarek, R., Cacciatori, E., Chalkias, K., Gallagher Rodgers, R., Jarzabkowski, P., Kavas, M.... Krull, E. (2024). Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge*. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 60(1), pp. 194-214. doi:10.1177/00218863231207873

    [publisher’s website]

  3. Cacciatori, E., Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R. and Chalkias, K. (2019). What's in a Model? Computer Simulations and the Management of Ignorance. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1), pp. 18102-18102. doi:10.5465/ambpp.2019.250

    [publisher’s website]

  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

    [publisher’s website]

  5. 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

    [publisher’s website]

  6. Cacciatori, E. (2012). Resolving Conflict in Problem‐Solving: Systems of Artefacts in the Development of New Routines. Journal of Management Studies, 49(8), pp. 1559-1585. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01065.x

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  7. Cacciatori, E., Tamoschus, D. and Grabher, G. (2012). Knowledge transfer across projects: Codification in creative, high-tech and engineering industries. Management Learning, 43(3), pp. 309-331. doi:10.1177/1350507611426240

    [publisher’s website]

  8. Cacciatori, E. (2008). Memory objects in project environments: Storing, retrieving and adapting learning in project-based firms. Research Policy, 37(9), pp. 1591-1601. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2008.04.028

    [publisher’s website]

  9. Chataway, J., Brusoni, S., Cacciatori, E., Hanlin, R. and Orsenigo, L. (2007). The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in a Changing Landscape of Vaccine Development: A Public/Private Partnership as Knowledge Broker and Integrator. The European Journal of Development Research, 19(1), pp. 100-117. doi:10.1080/09578810601144350

    [publisher’s website]

  10. Cacciatori, E. and Jacobides, M.G. (2005). The Dynamic Limits of Specialization: Vertical Integration Reconsidered. Organization Studies, 26(12), pp. 1851-1883. doi:10.1177/0170840605059160

    [publisher’s website]

Report

  1. Viganò, E., Cacciatori, E. and Hauser, C. (2024). Translating Responsible AI Principles into Practice: Insights from a Pilot Project. Chur, Switzerland: FH Graubünden Verlag. ISBN 9783952443743.

Professional activities

Editorial activity (3)

  1. Organization Science, Referee, 2010 - present.
  2. Organization Studies, Referee, 2009 - present.
  3. Research Policy, Referee, 2009 - present.