Barbara Czarniawska

Barbara Czarniawska (formerly known as Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges) (born in in 1948 in Bialystok, Poland) is an organization theorist, best known for her contributions to constructivism theory in management studies and storytelling and narrative analysis in anthropology of organization.

At present, she holds a Research Chair in Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Institute, School of Business, Economics and Law at Göteborg University, Sweden [ [http://www.hgu.gu.se/item.aspx?id=2678 Gothenburg Research Institute (in Swedish)] ] . Her research takes a constructionist perspective on organizing, most recently exploring the connections between popular culture and practice of management. She is interested in methodology, especially in fieldwork techniques and in the application of narratology to organization studies.

Education

Czarniawska holds an MA in Social and Industrial Psychology from Warsaw University, 1970; Ph.D.in Economic Sciences from Warsaw School of Economics, 1976. She received the title of "Doctor honoris causa" from Stockholm School of Economics in 2005; from Copenhagen Business School and Helsinki School of Economics [ [http://www.hse.fi/FI/promotio/honorary/czarniawska/ Helsinki School of Economics information page (in Finnish)] ] in 2006. She was a visiting scholar and guest professor to many universities, including MIT, London School of Economics [ [http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems/newsAndEvents/2006events/Czarniawska.htm LSE information on distinguished visitor] ] , University of Leicester [ [http://www.le.ac.uk/ulmc/visitors/bczarniawska.html University of Leicester visitors information] ] and others.

Current

Czarniawska is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (awarding Nobel prizes), the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Gothenburg. She received Lily and Sven Thuréus Technical-Economic Award for internationally renowned research in organization theory in 2000 and Wihuri International Prize in recognition of creative work that has specially furthered and developed the cultural and economic progress of mankind", 2003.

Bibliography

* Czarniawska, B. (2004) My mother's daughter. In: Stablein, Ralph E., and Frost, Peter J. (eds.) "Renewing Research Practice". Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 125-136.
* Czarniawska-Joerges, B. (1988) Ideological control in nonideological organizations, New York: Praeger.
* Czarniawska-Joerges, B. (1992) Exploring complex organizations: a cultural perspective, Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.
* Czarniawska-Joerges, B. (1997) Narrating the organization: dramas of institutional identity, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* Czarniawska-Joerges, B. (1998) Narrative approach in organization studies, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.
* Czarniawska-Joerges, B. (1999) Writing management: organization theory as a literary genre, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
* Czarniawska-Joerges, B. & Guillet de Monthoux, P. (1994) Good novels, better management: reading organizational realities, Chur: Harwood Academic Publishers.
* Czarniawska-Joerges, B. & Höpfl, H. (2002) Casting the other: the production and maintenance of inequalities in work organizations, London ; New York: Routledge.
* Czarniawska-Joerges, B. & Sevón, G. (1996) Translating organizational change, Berlin ; New York: Walter de Gruyter.
* Czarniawska-Joerges, B. & Sevón, G. (2005) Global ideas: how ideas, objects and practices travel in a global economy, Malmö, Sweden: Liber & Copenhagen Business School Press.

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