IKON Research Unit
About IKON
IKON is a multidisciplinary research centre within Warwick Business School, established in 1997 to explore the interactions between innovation, knowledge, and organizational processes.
Our mission is to apply insights from social and organizational theory to empirical studies of how knowledge, evidence, and expertise are created, shared, and used. Through this work, we aim to support innovation, sustainability, and organizational transformation.
Research
IKON's key research themes are:
- Knowledge exploitation, integration and interactive innovation processes
- Networking and innovation
- Knowledge and learning in organizations
- Knowledge Management and
communities of practice - Evidence generation and use
- Managing knowledge work
- Expertise development and transfer
The IKON Network
IKON is comprised of a distributed network of researchers working in the area of innovation, knowledge and organizational networks.
Our WBS academics include:
- Professor Davide Nicolini, Director
- Professor Jacky Swan
- Dr Katharina Dittrich
Latest publications
- Nicolini, D., Korica, M. and Bharatan, I., 2023. . Journal of Health Organization and Management.
- Dittrich, Katharina 2022. Scale in research on grand challenges. In G眉m眉艧ay, Marti, Trittin-Ulbrich, Wickert (Eds.): Organizing for societal grand challenges.Link opens in a new window Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol.79, 187-203
- Nicolini, Davide, Igor Pyrko, Omid Omidvar, and Agnessa Spanellis. "U." Academy of Management Annals 16, no. 2 (2022): 680-718.
Summer School 2026
The advancement of practice-based studies in organization, administrative and social studies.
Title - 'To Know is to Act: Revisiting and rethinking learning and knowing from practice and process perspective'
天美传媒, 30 June - 2 July 2026.