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Barbara Czarniawska

Barbara Czarniawska

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
54
Citations
29855
World Ranking
2078
National Ranking
22

Overview

Barbara Czarniawska is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research spans fields such as Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Education. The main topics of their work include Intelligence, Security, War Strategy; Management and Organizational Studies; Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting; Visual Culture and Art Theory; Accounting and Organizational Management; Business Strategy and Innovation; and Migration, Refugees, and Integration.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Gender Work and Organization
  • Culture and Organization
  • puntOorg International Journal
  • Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Organization Studies

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Barbara Czarniawska are:

  • "Bruno Latour (1947-2022)" (2022), Organization Studies
  • "Narrative glimpses of organizing" (2024), Culture and Organization
  • "Guest editorial: Out in the field with Bruno Latour" (2024), Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal

Barbara Czarniawska has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Elena Raviola, Josef Pallas, Sabina Siebert, Bernward Joerges, and John Mackay.

Book publications feature several titles across different publishers. At Bristol University Press eBooks, they have published multiple editions of "COVID-19 Stories from the Swedish Welfare State" (2024, 2025). At Edward Elgar Publishing, their books include "Robotization of Work?" (2020) and "Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations" (2023). They have also authored "Per una teoria dell'organizzare" (2020) published by Editoriale Scientifica eBooks, and "Searching for New Welfare Models: Citizens' Opinions on the Past, Present and Future of the Welfare State" (2020) published by Victoria University of Wellington.

Best Publications

  • Narratives in Social Science Research

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • Travels of Ideas

    Barbara Czarniawska;Bernward Joerges

  • Translating organizational change.

    Barbara Czarniawska;Guje Sevón

  • Shadowing: And Other Techniques for Doing Fieldwork in Modern Societies

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • On Time, Space, and Action Nets:

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • Writing Management: Organization Theory as a Literary Genre

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • A Theory of Organizing

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • Consulting as a Liminal Space

    Barbara Czarniawska;Carmelo Mazza

  • Imitating by Editing Success: The Construction of Organizational Fields

    Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson;Barbara Czarniawska;Guje Sevón

  • Social Science Research: From Field to Desk

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • Actor-network theory and organizing

    Barbara Czarniawska;Tor Hernes

  • Exploring Complex Organizations: A Cultural Perspective

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • A Tale of Three Cities: Or the Glocalization of City Management

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • Emerging Institutions: Pyramids or Anthills?

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • The Uses of Narrative in Social Science Research

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • Organizational Imitation in Identity Transformation

    Guje Sevón;Barbara Czarniawska

  • A Tale of Three Cities

    Barbara Czarniawska

  • Organizing: how to study it and how to write about it

    Barbara Czarniawska

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Rhodes
Carl Rhodes University of Technology Sydney
Mariana Mazzucato
Mariana Mazzucato University College London
Martin Parker
Martin Parker University of Bristol
Glenn Morgan
Glenn Morgan University of Bristol
George Cheney
George Cheney University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Jean-Pascal Gond
Jean-Pascal Gond City, University of London

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