Browsing by Author "Czarniawska, Barbara"
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Accounting and gender across times and places: An excursion into fiction
Czarniawska, Barbara (2007-11-26) -
Action nets for waste prevention
Corvellec, Hervé; Czarniawska, Barbara (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2014-03)Although waste prevention is considered the best possible option in the European waste-hierarchy model, it is not always clear what is meant by “waste prevention”. This chapter presents three cases of waste prevention, ... -
Emerging Institutions: Pyramids or Anthills?
Czarniawska, Barbara (2006)In the present text, an institution is understood to be an (observable) pattern of collective action, justified by a corresponding social norm. By this definition, an institution emerges slowly, although it may be helped ... -
Femmes Fatales in Finance, or Women and the City
Czarniawska, Barbara (2004)This paper concerns the representations of women working with finances in popular culture. Popular culture retrieves plots from a common repertoire, and in this way transmits ideals and furnishes descriptions of reality, ... -
Is It Possible To Lift Oneself By The Hair? And If Not, Why Is It Worth Trying
Czarniawska, Barbara (2004)The title of this text alludes to the legend of Baron Munchausen, who reportedly did many impossible things. A change of a system by the same system belongs to such impossible tasks, as shown by Niklas Luhmann's theory of ... -
Isolationist Automorphism, Relentless Isomorphism, or Merciless Idealism. The Cultural Context of City Management in Warsaw, Stockholm and Rome
Czarniawska, Barbara (2001)This paper employs some results of a study of city management in Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome by setting them in a cultural context. Contrary to the common opinion, the difficulties in effective city management in Warsaw ... -
Lyckad integration? Skönlitterära beskrivningar av invandringen i Sverige 1945-2017
Czarniawska, Barbara (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2020) -
Metaphors and the Cultural Context of organizing
Czarniawska, Barbara (2001)When the linguistic turn reached organization studies, it manifested itself in the first place by the interest in metaphors. The crucial role of these tropes for theory building was emphasized, and their place in the very ... -
Negotiating Selves: Gender
Czarniawska, Barbara (2006)This paper suggests a way of framing gender production in workplaces as a negotiation with varying results. The basis for such a frame is a combination of the notions of ”positioning” (the discoursive production of selves, ... -
On meshworks and other complications of portraying contemporary organizing
Czarniawska, Barbara (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2013-10)This text begins with a brief summary of problems resulting from the traditional framing of the term “organizations”. It ignores organizing without organizations, organizing between organizations, and the fact that ... -
On Time, Space, and Action Nets
Czarniawska, Barbara (2004)Laboratory studies, especially those by Latour and Woolgar (1979/1986) and Knorr Cetina (1981) proved to be an invaluable source of inspiration for students of organizing. Laboratories, however, are mostly reminiscent of ... -
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Czarniawska, Barbara (Kommunforskning i Västsverige, 1997) -
Richard Rorty: Our guide to a pragmatist organization theory
Czarniawska, Barbara (2022) -
Robotization - Then and Now
Czarniawska, Barbara; Joerges, Bernward (Gothenburg Research Institute, 2018-04-20)Karel Čapek, the Czech author, coined the term “robot” (from “robota”, labor in Slavic languages; “robotnik” means “worker”) in 1920. In his play, R.U.R. - Rossum Universal Robots, artificial humans made of synthetic organic ... -
Strong plots: The relationship between Popular Culture and Management Practice & Theory
Rhodes, Carl; Czarniawska, Barbara (2004)In this paper we consider the relationship between popular culture and management practice. Starting with references to previously established connections between high culture and management, we turn to popular culture for ... -
Svenska företag i deckarromaner 1943-2001
Czarniawska, Barbara (2003)Fiction offers many interesting insights to students of management. In the first place, many novels contain elements of historical ethnographies, portraying the ways of life – and organizing – that vanished in the past. ... -
The (d)evolution of the cyberwoman?
Gustavsson, Eva; Czarniawska, Barbara (2006)In this text, we examine Donna Haraway’s idea of a liberating potential of cyborgization first in the subsequent versions of Stepford Wives (the novel, the 1975 movie, and the 2004 movie), and second in the evolution of ... -
The Thin End of the Wedge. Foreign Women Professors as Double Strangers in Academia
Sevón, Guje; Czarniawska, Barbara (2005)The impetus for this study was an observation that many of the women who obtained the first chairs at European universities were foreigners. Our initial attempt to provide a statistical picture proved impossible, because ... -
THE USES OF NARRATIVE IN ORGANIZATION RESEARCH
Czarniawska, Barbara (2000)A so-called literary turn in social sciences in general and in organization studies in particular has resulted in re-discovering the narrative knowledge in organization theory and practice. Organization researchers ... -
Web Woman: The On-line Construction of Corporate and Gender Images
Czarniawska, Barbara; Gustavsson, Eva (2004)One of the many interesting applications of information technology is 'business on the net' and, within this trend, the appearance of virtual females whose job it is to assist customers by giving advice and delivering ...