Barbara Czarniawska
2003
Barbara Czarniawska was a renowned Polish-Swedish organisation scholar, known for applying narrative and anthropological approaches to studying organizations, emphasizing how storytelling shapes organizational life. Her work has significantly influenced management and social sciences by introducing qualitative methodologies that challenge traditional, rationalist perspectives on organizational analysis.
Barbara Czarniawska (1948-2024) was born in Bialystok, Poland, where her family moved from Wilno after the World War II. She was a Swedish citizen since 26 August, 1988. Czarniawska was a Senior Professor of Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Institute, Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law, in Sweden.
Academic Affiliations
MA in Social and Industrial Psychology, Warsaw University (1970); Ph.D.in Economic Sciences, Warsaw School of Economics (1976). Doctor honoris causa at Stockholm School of Economics (2005), Copenhagen Business School (2006) and Helsinki School of Economics (2006).
Visiting Research Fellow at Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA; London School of Economics and Political Science; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin; Scholar-in-Residence at Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy;
Faculty Associate at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Torsten & Ragnar Söderberg Professor of Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Institute, School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Sweden;
a Titular Professor at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels.
Visiting Professor at University of Manitoba and University of Alberta, Canada; University of Rome I La Sapienza, University of Venice, University of Naples, University of Trento, and University of Bologna, Italy; University of Innsbruck, Austria; University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow Scotland; Nottingham University, Warwick University, University of Leicester and Newcastle University, England; Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel; UTS Business School, Sydney, Australia.
Publications
33 books
23 edited volumes;
103 articles in refereed journals
and 100 contributed chapters in Polish, English, Italian, Danish, French and German
Selected books in English
Writing Management: Organization Theory as a Literary Genre, 1999
A Tale of Three Cities or the Glocalization of City Management, 2002
Narratives in Social Science Research, 2004
A Theory of Organizing, 2008/2014
Cyberfactories: How News Agencies Produce News, 2012
Social Science Research from Field to Desk, 2014
Honours and Awards
- Edith Penrose Award (INSEAD/EURAM) 2023 for Trail Blazing Research, 2023
- Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Engineering Academy, the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Gothenburg, and Societas Scientiarum Finnica
- Lily and Sven Thuréus Technical-Economic Award for internationally renowned research in organization theory, 2000;
- Honorary Doctor of Science (Economics), Helsinki School of Economics 2006
- 1st EIASM Interdisciplinary Leader Award, 2017
- Honorary Member of puntOorg International Research Network 2019
- NEON prize for an extraordinary journey of achievements in Management- and Organization (MOS) studies 2021
- Honorary Doctor of Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland, 2022
