Barbara Czarniawska

Barbara Czarniawska

Barbara Czarniawska (born December 2, 1948 in Białystok ), formerly also known as Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges , is a Polish-Swedish organizational researcher and holds a professorship for management studies at the University of Gothenburg . Her scientific work took Czarniawska to London , Innsbruck , Lund , Stockholm and Gothenburg . In 1988 she became a Swedish citizen. Since 2000 she has only published under the name Czarniawska.

Career

Czarniawska completed her master's degree in social and organizational psychology at the University of Warsaw in 1970 . She received her PhD in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics in 1976 . In 1988 Czarniawska took on Swedish citizenship.

She began her professional career as a research fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the USA. This was followed by positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science , the Berlin Science Center for Social Research , a research stay at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio ( Italy ), Yale University and La Sapienza University in Rome .

Research interests

Czarniawska takes the discursive - constructivist approach to management and explores storytelling in organizations and the role that stories play in organizations. She is one of the founders of this research approach. For them, narratives are incoherently told events that are woven into a story by a plot and either become an argument or contain a meaningful punch line. In their opinion, however, knowledge is conveyed in storytelling. In addition, the narration represents the communication in the organization. The organization only arises in the narration.

Czarniawska uses a three-step analysis process. In the first step, the construction of narratives is recorded, which is differentiated between “organizing” ( meaning-creating ) and “organizational” (mediating). The stories are determined through interviews . After the stories have been recorded, they are interpreted using five methods : biographical and rhetorical analysis, structural analysis, deconstruction and an analysis of representations of the field of practice as known from literature analysis. In the last step, the results are presented again as a narrative. According to Czarniawska, management knowledge is an analyzable story.

Honors

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

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

bibliography

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} curriculum vitae ( memento of the original dated August 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Barbara Czarniawska on the website of the University of Gothenburg, accessed July 1, 2013  
2. ↑ Barbara Czarniawska on the Copenhagen Business School website from February 26, 2013
3. ^ Online personal directory of the University of Gothenburg, accessed on July 4, 2013
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Compare the authority data set at the German National Library GND 120484412
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Laudation on the appointment as honorary member of the EGOS by Bruno Latour, accessed on June 30, 2013
6. ↑ ^{a b} Claudia Menebröcker ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (2013; PDF; 33 kB) The storytelling approach is useless for organizational research. A literature review ; Essay from the writing workshop “Organizations” in the winter semester 2012/13; Master's seminar at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University  
7. ↑ Worldcat entry , accessed June 30, 2013

Web links

Commons : Barbara Czarniawska  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Barbara Czarniawska at the MAD Conference, in Montreal.
• Literature by and about Barbara Czarniawska in the catalog of the German National Library