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Barbara Czarniawska

Barbara Czarniawska

Professor
Managing Overflow
P.O Box 603
SE 405 30 Gothenburg
Övre Fogelbergsgatan 6
+46 31 786 1552
+46 31 786 5619
Barbara.Czarniawska@gri.gu.se

 

Born 2nd December 1948 in Bialystok, Poland, to where her family moved from Wilno after the World War II. Swedish citizen since 26 August, 1988. MA in Social and Industrial Psychology, Warsaw University, 1970; Ph.D.in Economic Sciences, Warsaw School of Economics, 1976. 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; Fellow at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University; Visiting Professor at Università di Roma, La Sapienza.

Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Engineering Academy, the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Göteborg and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.

Received the Lily and Sven Thuréus Technical-Economic Award for internationally renowned research in organization theory, 2000 and a Wihuri International Prize in 2003, "in recognition of creative work that has specially furthered and developed the cultural and economic progress of mankind."

In 2003 she has been elected to a Honorary Fellow of the European Institute of Advanced Studies, Brussels. Stockholm School of Economics bestowed on her the title of Oeconomiae doctor honoris causa in September 2005; Copenhagen Business School made her Doctor Mercaturae Honoris Causa in March 2006; Helsinki School of Economics made her a Honorary Doctor of Science (Economics) in May 2006. Her most recent books in English is Cyberfactories: How news agencies produce news (2012).

Publications

2012

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2012).
    Accounting and detective stories: An excursion to the USA in the 1940s. 0951-3574, GUP 157504

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2012).
    Business fiction: Global economy by William Gibson , GUP 145873

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2012).
    Cyberfactories: How news agencies produce news , GUP 150553

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Orvar Löfgren (2012).
    Managing overflow in affluent societies , GUP 157238

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2012).
    News agencies: The places where information permanently overflows , GUP 157241

  • Orvar Löfgren; Barbara Czarniawska (2012).
    The inherited theories of overflow and their challengers , GUP 157239

2011

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Antropologia organizacji: wczoraj i dziś 1644-9584, GUP 147642

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Does planning belong to the politics of the past? , GUP 147997

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    How to study gender inequality in organizations? , GUP 141109

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Introduction to the Special Themed Section: Fashion in Research and in Management , GUP 141174

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Maria Ossowska. These shoulders so elegant , GUP 139061

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Narrating organization studies 1387-6740, GUP 153091

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    New plots are badly needed in finance: Accounting for the financial crisis of 2007-2010 , GUP 138812

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Nomadic work as life-story plot , GUP 148287

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Operational risk, translation, and glocalization , GUP 149707

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Performativity in place of responsibility? 0953-4814, GUP 148053

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Skuggning i fältarbete , GUP 136662

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Successful research: In whose eyes? 1468-4497 , GUP 139808

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    University Fashions , GUP 148285

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist; David Renemark (2011).
    Women and work in family soap operas 1468-0432, GUP 144319

  • Andreas Diedrich; Lars Walter; Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Boundary stories: Constructing the Validation Centre in West Sweden 2000-8058, GUP 148112

  • Andreas Diedrich; Lars Walter; Barbara Czarniawska (2011).
    Boundary stories: Constructing the Validation Centre in West Sweden , GUP 138960

2010

  • Helene Ahl; Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    Many words about tea , GUP 130001

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    Business in the media: The circuit model and the interpretative templates , GUP 119620

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    Come studiare la gestione dei rischi in sanità , GUP 130096

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    Going back to go forward: On studying organizing in action nets , GUP 133547

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    Janteloven i lokal oversættelse – et bindeled mellem litteratur og social praksis , GUP 123677

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    Kvinnor, media och finanser , GUP 117884

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    La razionalità come prodotto organizzativo , GUP 122189

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    Narratologi og feltstudier , GUP 113021

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    Perché i manager svedesi non amano raccontare le storie? , GUP 124471

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Gideon Kunda (2010).
    Socialization into modernity: On organizational enculturation in infantocracies. 0953-4814, GUP 121461

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    The construction of businesswomen in the media: Between evil and frailty , GUP 117896

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    The uses of narratology in social and policy studies 1946-0171, GUP 121370

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    Translation impossible? Accounting for a city project 0951-3574, GUP 121460

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    Trochę inna teoria organizacji. Organizowanie jako konstrukcja sieci działań , GUP 127173

  • Tatiana Pipan; Barbara Czarniawska (2010).
    How to construct an actor-network: Management accounting from idea to practice 1045-2354, GUP 117882

2009

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    Analisi etnografica di un'agenzia di stampa , GUP 102225

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    Conclusions: plans or well-practiced , GUP 101950

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    Den tysta fabriken. Om tillverkning av nyheter på TT , GUP 93170

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    Distant readings: anthropology of organizations through novels 0953-4814, GUP 95729

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    Emerging institutions: Pyramids or anthills? 0170-8406, GUP 92691

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    Gabriel Tarde and organization theory , GUP 93376

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    How institutions are inscribed in technical objects and what it may mean in the case of the Internet , GUP 83889

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    Introduction: Action Nets , GUP 101934

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    My forgotten predecessors , GUP 94918

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    Narrative, Diskurse und Organisationsforschung , GUP 101898

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    Organizing in the face of risk and threat , GUP 101872

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    STS meets MOS 1350–5084, GUP 85243

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    Storytelling: Ledarnas nya verktyg , GUP 91740

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2009).
    The Platonists Meet the Sophists Once Again , GUP 95214

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Jan Mouritsen (2009).
    What is the object of management? How management technologies help to create manageable objects , GUP 97538

2008

  • Annica Bragd; Dorit Christensen; Barbara Czarniawska; Maria Tullberg (2008).
    Discourse as the Means of Community Creation 0956-5221, GUP 80952

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Eva Gustavsson (2008).
    A (d)evolution of the cyberwoman? 1350-5084, GUP 89624

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2008).
    A Theory of Organizing , GUP 72835

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2008).
    Accounting and gender across times and places: An excursion into fiction 0361-3682, GUP 62099

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2008).
    Alterity/identity interplay in image construction. , GUP 71014

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2008).
    Fashion , GUP 81214

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2008).
    Femmes fatales in finance, or women and the city 1350-5084, GUP 69481

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2008).
    How to misuse institutions and get away with it: Some reflections on institutional theory(ies). , GUP 71013

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2008).
    Humiliation: A standard organizational product? 1045-2354, GUP 89623

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2008).
    Organizing: how to study it and how to write about it. 1746-5648, GUP 71845

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Guje Sevón (2008).
    The thin end of the wedge: Foreign women professors as double strangers in academia 0968-6673, GUP 71056

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Fabrizio Panozzo (2008).
    Trends and fashions in management studies (I): Fashion in research 0200-8825, GUP 71053

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Fabrizio Panozzo (2008).
    Trends and fashions in management studies (II): Mutual influences. , GUP 89632

2007

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Alterity (Otherness) , GUP 47897

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Comment: Awards as compensation? 1740-4754, GUP 43200

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Complex Organizations Still Complex 1096-7494, GUP 42720

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Fashion , GUP 47898

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Has organization theory a tomorrow? 0170-8406, GUP 80264

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Literary theory , GUP 47900

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Managerial fashions and fads , GUP 47903

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Narrative inquiry in and about organizations , GUP 36794

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    On creole researchers, hybrid disciplines and pidgin writing , GUP 62529

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Organisering i TV-rutan: Kommissionen , GUP 57745

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Andreas Diedrich; Tobias Engberg; Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist; Eva Gustavsson; Kajsa Lindberg; Lars Norén; David Renemark; Lars Walter; Peter Zackariasson (2007).
    Organisering kring hot och risk , GUP 57289

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Reclaiming processes 0956-5221, GUP 80269

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Shadowing and other techniques for doing fieldwork in modern societies , GUP 57284

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2007).
    Universitet i ruiner? Länge leve universitetet! , GUP 62136

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist; David Renemark (2007).
    Where local meets global: Women and work in non-US soap operas , GUP 49275

2006

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2006).
    A golden braid: Allport, Goffman, Weick 0170-8406, GUP 37019

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2006).
    Emerging Institutions: Pyramids or Anthills? , GUP 38621

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Pasquale Gagliardi (2006).
    Management Education and Humanities , GUP 37867

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2006).
    Negotiating Selves: Gender , GUP 41197

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2006).
    Organization Theory, Volume I & II , GUP 37865

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Carl Rhodes (2006).
    Strong plots: Popular culture in management practice and theory , GUP 37024

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Eva Gustavsson (2006).
    The (d)evolution of the cyberwoman? , GUP 38625

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2006).
    The quiet European? 1056-4926, GUP 80260

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2006).
    Zmiana kadru: Zarzadzanie Warszawa na przelomie wieku , GUP 36884

  • Kajsa Lindberg; Barbara Czarniawska (2006).
    Knotting the net of action, or organizing between organizations 0956-5221, GUP 37025

2005

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2005).
    "Studying up, studying down, studying sideways": Om ett dialogiskt förhållande till fältet , GUP 38144

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Tor Hernes (2005).
    Actor-Network Theory and Organizing , GUP 37839

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2005).
    Doing Gender Onto the Other: Fiction as a Mode of Studying Gender Discrimination in Organizations. 0968-6673, GUP 37029

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2005).
    En teori om organisering , GUP 37874

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Guje Sevón (2005).
    Global ideas. How Ideas, Objects and Practices Travel in the Global Economy , GUP 37838

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2005).
    Karl Weick: Concepts, style and reflection , GUP 38111

  • Barbara Czarniawska; Eva Gustavsson (2005).
    Kvinnor som teknik eller Stepford wives då och nu , GUP 38114

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2005).
    Networks, networking and nets: NCW from an organization theory perspective , GUP 38110

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2005).
    On Gorgon sisters: Organizational action in the face of paradox , GUP 38143

  • Barbara Czarniawska (2005).
    Pubblica amministrazione in Svezia: una crisi alla moda. , GUP 38091

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