Organization Studies and Medical Humanities A New Lens for Organizing, Managing and Understanding Health and Healthcare

Introduction
1. What are Medical Humanities? A Necessary Interplay with Organisation Studies
2. Curating Moral Imagination: The Development of Critical Management Studies in Medical Humanities
3. Adoption in the Shadow of the Profession: Medical Innovation Revisited
4. Training the professionals, transforming the environment: A project of narrative medicine at the hospital
5. Reshaping physician identity: Medical legitimacy and the rise of integrative and lifestyle medicine
6. The shaping of palliative care through the collaboration between practitioners and caregivers: resources, ambivalences, and tensions
7. Boundary negotiation and reflexivity in researcher–patient collaboration: Double involvement in an organisational context
8. Innovation in healthcare systems: the quadruple helix model supporting "medical humanities" approaches
9. Shaping and constructing personalised medicine: Storylines, positions, and moral orders
10. Dilemmas of therapeutic interaction in digitally mediatized hospital work settings
11. Ethical decision-making in neonatal intensive care: process, risk, and resistance
12. Mutual recognition through medical humanities in palliative care: organizing care at the end of life
13. Peering through the glassdoor: using employee voice to inform organisational learning in the national health service (NHS)
14. Whose idea will be chosen? Using and ignoring evidence to invest in mental health and wellbeing initiatives in British workplaces.
15. Healthcare organisation leader burnout
16. Conclusion: Beyond Control, Toward Care. A Shared Agenda Between Organization Studies and Medical Humanities

Biography

Andrea Bernardi is Associate Professor of Organization Studies at the School of Advanced Defence Studies (CASD) in Rome. Previously he was Senior Lecturer in Employment and Organization Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His previous positions include Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, University of Rome, Roma Tre. In 2019 in Oxford, with Beijing University, he convened the conference ‘Healthcare in China, a medical humanities perspective’. He is associate editor for the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy. With Federica Angeli, Barbara Quacquarelli and Roberto Lusardi, he convened a sub-theme devoted to the Medical Humanities at the 2022 and 2024 editions of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) colloquia.

Barbara Quacquarelli is Associate Professor in Organisation Studies at the University of Milano Bicocca and Professor of Public Management at Scuola Nazionale dell’Amministrazione in Rome, Italy, a government institution for the selection and training of top managers of the Italian civil service. She is a faculty member of MIP, business school of Politecnico di Milano. She was founder of a research centre, BTDC, focused on emerging trends in organizational development. She is responsible of a summer school on Global Diversity Management with Caledonian University in Scotland. Barbara has been attending EGOS for about 15 years. She was the chair of the 2024 edition of EGOS Colloquium in Milan.

Federica Angeli is Professor of Management at the University of York Management School, York, UK. She obtained her PhD in Management from the University of Bologna and held positions at Tilburg University (School of Social and Behavioural Sciences), Maastricht University (Care and Public Health Research Institute) and at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Federica has served as Associate Editor for BMC Health Services Research and is currently an Academic Editor for PLOS One. She is also a Fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Federica has been an EGOS member since 2007. She has organized and co-convened four EGOS sub-themes between 2014-2019, all examining opportunities and challenges facing contemporary healthcare organisational and systems.

Roberto Lusardi is associate professor of Sociology at the Department of Management of the University of Bergamo. He obtained his PhD in Sociology and social research from the University of Trento. His main research interests concern the relation between knowledge, work and innovation in organizations, especially in the fields of healthcare and biomedicine. He is member of several scientific communities (European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), European Sociological Association (ESA); Italian Sociological Association (AIS), Italian Society of Sociology of Health (SISS)) and is in the scientific board of the Italian Society of Sociology of Health and senior editor for the scientific journal Tecnoscienza. In the last years he published monographs, essay and articles in Italian and international journals such as Current Sociology, Forum - Qualitative Sociological Research, Frontiers in Sociology, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Salute e Società and Studi organizzativi. He is the chair of the 2026 edition of EGOS Colloquium in Bergamo