Barbara Czarniawska

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

At present, she is a Senior Professor of 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.

Czarniawska holds an MA in Social and Industrial Psychology from Warsaw University, 1970; Ph.D.in Economic Sciences from Warsaw School of Economics, 1976.

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 has been 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; Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.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.

Since 2021 she is fellow of the British Academy.

2023 (with Andreas Diedrich) Organizing immigrants’ integration.

Practices and consequences in labour markets and societies.

Palgrave Macmillan.

2023 (with Rafael Alcadipani, Gianluca Miscione, Elena Raviola, and Emre Tarim) Organizing outside organizations, Part 1.

PuntOOrg International Journal, 8(1).

2023 (with Rafael Alcadipani, Elena Raviola, and Emre Tarim) Organizing outside organizations, Part 2.

PuntOorg International Journal, 8(2).

2022 (with Małgorzata Ćwikła, and Michał Pałasz) Posthumanizm i zarządzanie.

Culture Management, 23(1).

2007 Organisering kring hot och risk.

2009 Organizing in the face of threat and risk.

Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

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2011 Special Themed Section: Fashion in research and in management.

OrganizationStudies, 32(5).

2012 (with L.fgren, Orvar) Managing overflow in affluent societies.

New York: Routledge.

2013 (with L.fgren, Orvar) Coping with excess: How organizations, communities and individuals manage overflows.

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

2015 (with Lindberg, Kajsa and Solli, Rolf) After NPM?

Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 19(2).

2017 (with Metzger, Jonathan and Wieczorkowska-Wierzbinska, Grazyna) Managing overflows.

European Management Journal, 35(6).

2017 A research agenda for management and organization studies.

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

2019 (with Orvar L.fgren) Overwhelmed by overflows?

How people and organizations create and manage excess.

Lund: Lund University Press.

2020 (with Hernes. Tor) (eds.) ANT and organizing 2nd edition.

Lund: Studentlitteratur.