Barbara Czarniawska Explained

Education:MA in Social and Industrial Psychology, Warsaw University (1970), PhD in Economic Sciences, Warsaw School of Economics (1976)
Workplaces:Gothenburg Research Institute, Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law
Birth Date:2 December 1948
Birth Place:Białystok, Poland
Death Place:Gothenburg, Sweden
Nationality:Polish-Swedish

Barbara Czarniawska (also known as Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, 2 December 1948 – 7 April 2024) was a Polish-Swedish organisation scholar.

Czarniawska was a Senior Professor of Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Institute, Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law, Sweden.[1] Her research took a constructionist perspective on organizing,[2] most recently exploring the management of overflows, and integration processes. She was 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.[3]

Education

Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges was born in Białystok on 2 December 1948. She held 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. 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 was a visiting professor at Università di Roma 1, "La Sapienza", Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Università di Bologna, Università di Trento, and Università di Venezia, Italy; University College Dublin, Ireland; Macquarie University and UTS Business School, Sydney, Australia; University of Edinburgh, and University of Glasgow, Scotland; Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel; University of Leicester, and London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; University of Alberta, Edmonton, and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; University of Innsbruck, Austria; and Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Czarniawska was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 2000, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences from 2001, the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Gothenburg from 2002, and of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters from 2009. From 2021 she was fellow of the British Academy.

Death

Czarniawska died in Gothenburg on 7 April 2024, at the age of 75.[4]

Honors and awards

Bibliography (in English)

Edited books and special issues of journals

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/barbaraczarniawska/?languageId=100001&contentId=-1&disableRedirect=true&returnUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hgu.gu.se%2F Gothenburg Research Institute
  2. Hansen, Anne Vorre and Madsen Sabine (eds) Theorizing in Organization Studies. Insights from Key Thinkers. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
  3. Corvellec, H. and U. Eriksson-Zetterquist. 2017. Barbara Czarniawska: Organizational Change: Fashions, Institutions, and Translations. In The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. D. B. Szabla, W. A. Pasmore, M. A. Barnes and A. N. Gipson (Ed). Cham: Springer International Publishing: 1–17.
  4. Web site: Barbara Czarniawska has left us . University of Gothenburg . 9 April 2024 . 10 April 2024.
  5. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-elects-84-new-fellows-recognising-outstanding-achievement-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/ The British Academy elects 84 new Fellows recognising outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences