UCL School of Management

Davide Ravasi

Director
Professor
Head (Strategy and Entrepreneurship)
Phone number
(0)20 3108 6040
(internal 56040)
Office location
Level 38, 1 Canada Square
Rm SW3

PhD supervisor to:

Research projects

Organizational identity, culture and change

How do organizational identity and culture change? How do they affect organizational and strategic change? Can identity be managed at all?

Symbolic value creation

How does design contribute to infusing products with valuable meanings?

Design, designers, innovation and change

How do designers think and how does their work contribute to strategic change and innovation?

Alternative perspectives on reputation

How can we revisit our theories of organizational reputation to better reflect the current reputational landscape?

Visualization in qualitative research

How do visual tools - figures, tables - support analysis and theory building in qualitative research?
Selected publications
Gioia, D., Corley, K., Eisenhardt, K., Feldman, M., Langley, A., Lê, J., . . . Welch, C. (2022). A Curated Debate: On Using “Templates” in Qualitative Research. Journal of Management Inquiry. doi:10.1177/10564926221098955 [link]
Ravasi, D., & Schultz, M. (2021). Organizational Identity and Culture Change. The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation (pp. 106-130). doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845973.013.5 [link]
Cloutier, C., & Ravasi, D. (2021). Using tables to enhance trustworthiness in qualitative research. Strategic Organization. doi:10.1177/1476127020979329 [link]
Ravasi, D., Radic, M., & Munir, K. (2021). Privatization: Implications Of A Shift From State To Private Ownership. Journal of Management. doi:10.1177/0149206320988356 [link]
Kroezen, J., Ravasi, D., Sasaki, I., Żebrowska, M., & Suddaby, R. (2021). Configurations of Craft: Alternative Models for Organizing Work. The Academy of Management Annals.
Ravasi, D., Nummela, N., & Sasaki, I. (2021). Managing cultural specificity and cultural embeddedness when internationalizing: Cultural strategies of Japanese craft firms. Journal of International Business Studies. doi:10.1057/s41267-020-00330-0 [link]
Cloutier, C., & Ravasi, D. (2020). Identity trajectories: Explaining long-term patterns of continuity and change in organizational identities. Academy of Management Journal. doi:10.5465/amj.2017.1051 [link]
Sasaki, I., Kotlar, J., Ravasi, D., & Vaara, E. (2020). Dealing with revered past: Historical identity statements and strategic change in Japanese family firms. Strategic Management Journal. doi:10.1002/smj.3065 [link]
Ravasi, D. (2020). Reflections on Style and Strategy: An Interview with Davide Ravasi. In G. Cattani, S. Ferriani, F. Godart, S. V. Sgourev (Eds.), Aesthetics and Style in Strategy (pp. 267-270). Emerald Publishing Limited. doi:10.1108/S0742-332220200000042020 [link]
Etter, M., Ravasi, D., & Colleoni, E. (2019). Social media and the formation of organizational reputation. Academy of Management Review, 44 (1), 28-52. doi:10.5465/amr.2014.0280 [link]
Ravasi, D., Rindova, V., & Stigliani, I. (2019). The stuff of legend: History, memory, and the temporality of organizational identity construction. Academy of Management Journal. doi:10.5465/amj.2016.0505 [link]
Sasaki, I., Ravasi, D., & Micelotta, E. R. (2019). Family firms as institutions: Cultural reproduction and status maintenance among multi-centenary shinise in Kyoto. Organization Studies. doi:10.1177/0170840618818596 [link]
Langley, A., & Ravasi, D. (2019). VISUAL ARTIFACTS AS TOOLS FOR ANALYSIS AND THEORIZING. In T. B. Zilber, J. M. Amis, J. Mair (Eds.), PRODUCTION OF MANAGERIAL KNOWLEDGE AND ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY: NEW APPROACHES TO WRITING, PRODUCING AND CONSUMING THEORY (pp. 173-199). EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD. doi:10.1108/S0733-558X20190000059010 [link]
Giudici, A., Reinmoeller, P., & Ravasi, D. (2018). Open-system orchestration as a relational source of sensing capabilities: Evidence from a venture association. Academy of Management Journal, 61 (4), 1369-1402. doi:10.5465/amj.2015.0573 [link]
Ravasi, D., Rindova, V., Etter, M., & Cornelissen, J. (2018). The formation of organizational reputation. Academy of Management Annals, 12 (2), 574-599. doi:10.5465/annals.2016.0124 [link]
Stigliani, I., & Ravasi, D. (2018). The shaping of form: Exploring designers' use of aesthetic knowledge. Organization Studies, 39 (5-6), 747-784. doi:10.1177/0170840618759813 [link]
Schreiter, K., & Ravasi, D. (2018). Institutional pressures and organizational identity: The case of Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau in the GDR and beyond, 1945–1996. Business History Review. doi:10.1017/S0007680518000776 [link]
Ravasi, D. (2017). Visualizing our way through theory building. Journal of Management Inquiry, 26 (2), 240-243. doi:10.1177/1056492616680575 [link]
Dalpiaz, E., Rindova, V., & Ravasi, D. (2016). Combining logics to transform organizational agency: Blending industry and art at Alessi. ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY, 61 (3), 347-392. doi:10.1177/0001839216636103 [link]
Compagni, A., Mele, V., & Ravasi, D. (2015). HOW EARLY IMPLEMENTATIONS INFLUENCE LATER ADOPTIONS OF INNOVATION: SOCIAL POSITIONING AND SKILL REPRODUCTION IN THE DIFFUSION OF ROBOTIC SURGERY. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 58 (1), 242-278. doi:10.5465/amj.2011.1184 [link]
Canato, A., Ravasi, D., & Phillips, N. (2013). COERCED PRACTICE IMPLEMENTATION IN CASES OF LOW CULTURAL FIT: CULTURAL CHANGE AND PRACTICE ADAPTATION DURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SIX SIGMA AT 3M. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 56 (6), 1724-1753. doi:10.5465/amj.2011.0093 [link]
Stigliani, I., & Ravasi, D. (2012). ORGANIZING THOUGHTS AND CONNECTING BRAINS: MATERIAL PRACTICES AND THE TRANSITION FROM INDIVIDUAL TO GROUP-LEVEL PROSPECTIVE SENSEMAKING. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 55 (5), 1232-1259. doi:10.5465/amj.2010.0890 [link]
Rindova, V., Dalpiaz, E., & Ravasi, D. (2011). A Cultural Quest: A Study of Organizational Use of New Cultural Resources in Strategy Formation. ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 22 (2), 413-431. doi:10.1287/orsc.1100.0537 [link]
Kjaergaard, A., Morsing, M., & Ravasi, D. (2011). Mediating Identity: A Study of Media Influence on Organizational Identity Construction in a Celebrity Firm. JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, 48 (3), 514-543. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2010.00954.x [link]
Ravasi, D., & Phillips, N. (2011). Strategies of alignment: Organizational identity management and strategic change at Bang & Olufsen. STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION, 9 (2), 103-135. doi:10.1177/1476127011403453 [link]
Ravasi, D., & Schultz, M. (2006). Responding to organizational identity threats: Exploring the role of organizational culture. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 49 (3), 433-458.