Barbara Czarniawska

Barbara Czarniawska (1948-2024) was a Senior Professor in Management Studies at the Gothenburg Research Institute, School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She took a feminist and processual perspective on organising, recently exploring connections between popular culture and practice of management, and the organisation of the production of news.

Czarniawska was interested in techniques of fieldwork and in the application of narratology to organisation studies. Publications in English include: Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies (editor, 2016), Social Science Research From Field to Desk (2014) and A Theory of Organizing (second edition, 2014).