Barbara Czarniawska

Barbara Czarniawska (formerly known as Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges; born in 1948 in Białystok, Poland) is an organization scholar.

At present, she holds a Research Chair in Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Institute, School of Business, Economics and Law at Göteborg University, Sweden. Her research takes a constructionist perspective on organizing, most recently exploring the management of overflows, for example in news agencies. She is interested in methodology, especially in fieldwork techniques and in the application of narratology to organization studies.

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 in 2005; from Copenhagen Business School and Helsinki School of Economics in 2006.

Besides her Chair at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Barbara is a Titular Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels; and a Visiting Professor at the University of Rome I "La Sapienza", Italy.

Czarniawska is Faculty Associate at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT. She was a visiting Research Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, USA; London School of Economics and Political Science; Berlin; Scholar-in-Residence at Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy.

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