Barbara Czarniawska

Barbara Czarniawska (born 2 December 1948 in Bialystok ) known earlier under the name Barbara Czarniawska - Joerges, is a Polish- Swedish organization researcher and has been a professor of Management Studies at the University of Gothenburg. Your academic work led Czarniawska to London, Innsbruck, Lund, Stockholm and Gothenburg. Since 1988 she has adopted Swedish nationality. Since 2000, she published only under the name Czarniawska.

Career

Czarniawska completed her Master's degree in 1970 in social and organizational psychology at the University of Warsaw. She earned her PhD in 1976 in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics. In 1988 Czarniawska to the Swedish nationality.

She began her professional career as a Research Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the United States. There, he worked at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Science Centre Berlin for Social Research, a research fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio (Italy ), Yale University and the University La Sapienza in Rome.

Research interests

Czarniawska represents the discursive- constructivist approach to the management and explores storytelling in organizations and the role of stories in organizations. She was among the founders of this research approach. For they are still disjointed narratives told events that are intertwined in a plot to a story and either argument or include a sense-giving Pointe. In telling their opinion, but is mediated by knowledge. In addition, the narrative communication in the organization represents the organization arises only in the narrative.

Czarniawska used a three-step analysis process. In the first step, the construction of narratives is recorded that after " organizing " ( meaning -producing ) and " organizational " ( mediating ) can be distinguished. The stories are determined through interviews. After recording the stories they are interpreted by five methods: biographical and rhetorical analysis, structural analysis, deconstruction and analysis of representations of the practice field, as they are known from the literature analysis. The results are presented as a story back in the last step. Management knowledge is an analyzable Story by Czarniawska.

Honors

Czarniawska is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering, Kungliga Vetenskaps -och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg and the Societas Scientiarum Fennica.

Czarniawska 2000 received the Lily and Sven Thuréus Technical - Economic Award for internationally recognized research in organization theory and 2003 Wihuri International Prize, " the particularly promoted in recognition of creative work the cultural and economic progress of mankind." In addition, Czarniawska 2003 was elected Honorary Fellow of the European Institute of Advanced Studies in Brussels. In 2005 she received an honorary doctorate ( oeconomiae doctor honoris causa ) of the Stockholm School of Economics, 2006, an honorary doctorate (Doctor Mercaturae Honoris Causa ) from Copenhagen Business School and also another Honorary Doctorate ( Honorary Doctor of Science) of the Helsinki School of Economics. Since 2011 Barbara Czarniawska is an honorary member of EGOS.

Bibliography

148 works by Czarniawska in 359 publications held by libraries 5586 in 7 languages.