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Barbara Czarniawska | |
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| Born | 2 December 1948 Białystok, Poland |
| Died | 7 April 2024 (aged 75) Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Nationality | Polish-Swedish |
| Academic background | |
| Education | MA in Social and Industrial Psychology, Warsaw University (1970), PhD in Economic Sciences, Warsaw School of Economics (1976) |
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| Institutions | Gothenburg Research Institute, Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law |
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]
- ^ Gothenburg Research Institute, read 4 July 2013
- ^ Hansen, Anne Vorre and Madsen Sabine (eds) Theorizing in Organization Studies. Insights from Key Thinkers. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
- ^ 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.