Barbara Czarniawska


Barbara Czarniawska is an organization scholar.
At present, she holds a Research Chair in Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Institute, Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law, Sweden. Her research takes a constructionist perspective on organizing, most recently exploring the management of overflows, and integration processes. She is interested in complex organizations, institutionalism, action nets, organizational change, as well as 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.

Affiliations

In the years 1984–1990 she worked at Stockholm School of Economics, first as an assistant professor, and later as an associate professor. She became full professor at Lund University in 1990, and moved to the University of Gothenburg in 1996. Czarniawska is a titular professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels; and a faculty associate at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She was a visiting research fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, US; London School of Economics and Political Science; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin; and scholar-in-residence at Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy. She has also been a visiting professor at several universities in Europe, Canada and Australia. Czarniawska is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2000, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2001, the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Gothenburg since 2002, and of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters since 2009.
She has also been visiting professor at University of Manitoba and University of Alberta, Canada; University of Venice, University of Naples, University of Trento, and University of Bologna, Italy; University of Innsbruck, Austria; Edinburgh University, Scotland; the University of Nottingham, Warwick University, and University of Leicester, England; Ben Gurion University, Israel.

Honors and Awards