MONIKA KOSTERA

2004: Titular Professor (tytuł naukowy profesora) in Management, permanent academic title awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland.
1996: Habilitation (doctor habilitatus) Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Poland, Postmodernism and management.
1988-1990: Ph D (doktor nauk ekonomicznych) Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Poland, Swedish leadership: Context, consequences, future directions.
1983-1988: MSc (magister) Management and Organization, Factulty of Management, University of Warsaw, Poland, The New Wave in Management.
1980-1983: fil. kand. Behavioral sciences, Lund University, Sweden, University diploma of completed university programme (filosofie kandidat).

OTHER AWARDS

2008: The Dean's Individual Award, School of Management, University of Warsaw
2007: The Dean's Individual Award, School of Management, University of Warsaw
2007: The article The three faces of leadership: Manager, artist, priest (2006) co-authored with Mary Jo Hatch and Andrzej Kozminski ranked as the third most downloaded article in the category Business, Management and Accounting of the journal Organizational Dynamics within the period Jan-March 2007.
2004, 2005: Warsaw University's Vice Chancellor's Award for Academic Merit
2004: The article The Modern Crusade (1995) considered to be among the best writings published in the journal Management Learning 1994-2004 and published in the jubilee book Essential readings in management learning (2004) edited by Christopher Grey and Elena P. Antonacopoulou.
1988: Award to Polish Top Graduates

1988: Polish Ministry of Education outstanding student award
1988: M. Sc. diploma summa cum laude from Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw (Poland), average grade 4.88 out of 5
1985, 1986, 1987, 1988: Awards for Academic Merit (outstanding student awards)
1993, 1994: Dean’s Award for top teachers, University of Warsaw

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Posts Held

2010 - currently: Chair and Head of Management Systems Department, Factulty of Management, University of Warsaw
2009 - currently: Professor Ordinarius (profesor zwyczajny), Factulty of Management, University of Warsaw
2000 - 2009: Professor of Management, Department of Organizational Innovation, Factulty of Management, University of Warsaw
2000: Professor (profesor UW), University of Warsaw, Poland.
2005 - currently: Professor in Management and Organization Theory at the School of Management and Economics, Växjö University /from January 2010 Linneus University
2002: Professor (professorskompetens), Växjö University, Sweden.
2000 - 2002: Professor and director of Centre for International Studies of Organizations at the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Warsaw
2007: Research Director of Entrepreneurship Institute, Växjö University
1997 - 2000: Professor and Chair of Organization and Management, member of Senate, Leon Kozminski Academy of Management and Entrepreneurship, Warsaw
1997: Professor (profesor uczelni), Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Warsaw, Poland.
1995 - 1997: Head of department of organization theory, Leon Kozminski Academy of Management and Entrepreneurship, Warsaw
1993 - 1994: Director of Graduate Studies Program at the School of Management, University of Warsaw
1991 - 2000: Associate professor, School of Management, University of Warsaw
1988 - 1991: Assistant professor, School of Management, University of Warsaw

Visiting Professorships

2008- currently: Visiting professor at Essex Business School, Essex University
2004 - 2005: Guest professor at the Entrepreneurship Profile, School of Management and Economics, Växjö University
1999 - 2002: Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University
1998 - 1999: Bolton Business School

Invited Teaching

2009: Essex Business School , Essex University
2005: Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa, Poznanń
2003 - 2004: Warsaw School of Social Psychology (SWPS), Warsaw
2001 - 2003: School of Management and Economics, Växjö University
1997 - 2000: Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
1990 - 1996: International Management Center, (EMBA) Warsaw University & University of Illinois, Urbana Champaigne
1990 - 1998: International Management School, (MBA) Warsaw
1988: Warsaw Polytechnic

Invited Reasearch Presentations

2008: Bristol Business School, University of West England, Bristol
2008: School of Accounting, Finance and Management, Essex University
2006: Institute of Industrial Economics, The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
2001 - 2003: visiting professor, School of Management and Economics, Växjö University
1995 - 2000: visiting professor, Bolton Business School, Bolton Institute
1994, September: visiting researcher, Department of Business Administration, Lund University
1994, December: visiting researcher, Research Group Metropolis, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
1997: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Interdisciplinary Research Group of Gender at the Department of Philosophy
1994: Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
1996: Lappeenranta University, Finland
1997: University of Innsbruck, Austria
2000: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
2003: Copenhagen Business School
2002: Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Holland
2003: University of Humanistics, Utrecht, Holland
2003: Lodz University, Poland

Key Note Addresses and Inauguration Lectures

2007: The use of myths and legends in organizational storytelling, Key note address, 12th Storytelling Seminar, Queen Mary, University of London.
2004: Images of women managers in the Polish business press. Workshop on female managers, entrepreneurs and the social capital of the firm, Brussels (Belgium), EIASM, 2004.
2004: Management in transition: Ethnographic pictures of East European Managers, Key note address, International Business in Transition Economies, Riga (Latvia), 2004.
2003: Organizations as a way of life. Inauguration lecture, Faculty of Management, Warsaw University, inauguration of academic year 2003/2004.
1988: Images of organizing, Inauguration lecture, Leon Kozminski Academy of Management and Entrepreneurship, inauguration of academic year 1998/1999.
1997: Images of organizing, Inauguration lecture, International Business Programme, Leon Kozminski Academy of Management and Entrepreneurship, inauguration of academic year 1997/1998.

Courses Currently Taught

Organizations in Media and Culture (with Jerzy Kociatkiewicz), University of Warsaw.
Advanced Organization Theory, University of Warsaw.
Qualitative methods, University of Warsaw.
Organization Theory, University of Warsaw
Organizational Ethnography, University of Warsaw.

Courses Taught in the Past - a Selection

Organizational Ethnography, International Business, University of Warsaw
Field Studies of Organizations, International Business, Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management
Organization Theory, masters level students, University of Warsaw
Organization Theory, doctoral students, University of Warsaw
Organizing before 1989 in Poland, masters level students, University of Warsaw

Strategic Management
Organizational Change & Innovation
Organization Theory
Organizational Culture
International Management
Advanced Organization Theory
Symbolism and Interpretative Organization Studies
Interpretive Studies of Organizations

International Graduate Courses

Various courses taught at International Postgraduate Management Center (Executive MBA students), Warsaw University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Various courses taught at International Management School (MBA students), University of Warsaw
Organizational ethnography taught at International Business (undergraduates), University of Warsaw
Organizational ethnography taught at International Business (undergraduates), LKAEM

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Manuscript reviewer

Publishers:

SAGE Publications
Polskie Wydawnictwo Ekonomiczne (PWE)
Polskie Wydawnictwo Naukowe (PWN)
Wydawnictwo Wydzialu Psychologii UW
Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne (GWP )
Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne (WAiP)
Wydawnictwo C.H. Beck

Journals:

Aesthesis
British Journal of Management
Problemy Zarządzania
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration
Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion
Gender, Work and Organization
European Management Review
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
Organization Studies
Scandinavian Journal of Management
Management Learning
Organization
Personnel Review
Human Resource Development International
Studies in Cultures, Organizations, and Societies
Culture and Organization
Master of Business Administration Journal
Journal of Management Inquiry
Human Relations
Tamara
Journal of Organizational Change
Emphemera Journal - Critical Dialogues on Organization
Evaluation: The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice

Others:

2009 Academy of Management, OMT and CMS divisions
2008 Academy of Management, OB division
The Dark Side of Capitalism Case-writing Competition, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Canada B3H 3C3
Academy of Management, the OB division, 2007

Member of Editorial Boards

British Journal of Management
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies
Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l’Administration
European Management Review
Management Learning
Tamara
Culture and Organization
2000-2009 Human Relations
1998- 2002 Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies
1998 - 2002 Human Resource Development International
1995 - 2001 Master of Business Administration
1993 - 1997 Przeglad Organizacji
Grant, David, Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick and Linda Putnam (eds) (2004) The SAGE handbook of organizational discourse. London-Thousand Oaks-New Delhi : Sage.

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Editorship

2005 - European Management Review, Associate Editor
2004 -2005 Book series editor at GWP, Poland
2000 Guest Editor of the special issue of Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies, "The Empty Space” (2000 6/1)
1998 - 2001 Book Review Editor: Master of Business Administration

Supervision and Opposition

Full time supervision of Masters students on a regular basis
PhD students, successful completions:
Beata Glinka, Społeczne i kulturowe aspekty zmian organizacyjnych na przykładzie radia publicznego (Social and cultural aspects of organizational change: The case of the Polish public radio) University of Warsaw, December 2000, main advisor.

Tomasz Ludwicki, Modele współdziałania w organizacja projektowej (Models of cooperation in a project organization) University of Warsaw, September 2002, main advisor

Dorota Dobosz-Bourne, Knowledge transfer across cultural boundaries exemplified by the transfer of quality in car manufacture from England to Poland, Luton University (UK), July 2004 , external advisor.

Agnieszka Postuła, The Social Role of the IT-professional. University of Warsaw, April 2007, main advisor.

Przemysław Piątkowski, The work of God: An ethnography of Opus Dei, University of Essex, May 2009, external advisor.
PhD Students, work in progress:

Natalia Saroka, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2011, main advisor.

Ewa Filipp, University of Warsaw, 2011, main advisor.

Marta Romańska, University of Gdansk, 2012, main advisor.

Joanna Srednicka, Leon Kozminski Academy of Management, 2012, main advisor.

Sylwia Ciuk, Oxford Brookes University, 2010, external advisor.

Examiner for:

Bartosz Sławecki, Economic University in Poznań, May 2009
Achilleas Karayiannis, Essex University, May 2009
Krzysztof Klincewicz, Warsaw University, March, 2004
Ulla Eriksson, Gothenburg University, May 2000
Anna Cregard, Gothenburg University, January 2001
Ann-Sofie Köping, Stockholm University, June 2003
Piotr Pilch, Warsaw University, December 2001
Grazyna Wronska, LKAEM, Warsaw, January 2002
Magnus Forslund, Växjö University, 2001

Management Consulting Projects

1988 - 1990 strategic turnaround project for INCO Veritas (Polish consumer products industry), assistant consultant
1990 - 1991 privatization projects for Wólczanka SA and Próchnik SA (consumer products industry), two of the seven first Polish companies to be privatized after 1989, assistant consultant
1992 strategic positioning project for Unia Pracy (Polish socialist party created in 1992), project leader
1995 - 1997 strategic reorientation project for LOT Catering (consumer products industry), project leader

Practitioner teaching

Mini-MBA for ABB Poland organized by Leon Kozminski Academy of Management
Mini-MBA for the Polish Post Office
PKO Bank Polski
Mostostal Warszawa
Ursus Włocławek
and others

Conference Organizer

2006 (with Heather Hopfl) Art of Management, stream organizer, Krakow, Poland.
2005 (with Eva Gustavsson and Jerzy Kociatkiewicz) The Virtuality Challenge: Gender, organizing and the net, stream at Critical Management Studies 4, stream organizer, Cambridge University, Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge, UK
2004 (with Tomasz Ludwicki and Rudi Rozman) Transitions: Between Now and Then, stream organizer, EGOS Colloquium 20, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2003 (with Heather Hopfl, Ron Beadle, and Sanjiv Dugal) Management and Goodness 2 - Hidden Goodness, Marginal Goods, stream organizer, Critical Management Studies 3, Lancaster, UK.
2001 (with Bogdan Wawrzyniak, Zbigniew Dworzecki, Anna Fornalczyk, Grazyna Gierszewska, Wojciech Góralczyk, Witold Morawski, Jan Dąbrowski, Marcin Staniewski) "Cultural aspects of globalisation processes in contemporary organizations," workshop organizer, Report on Management, Warsaw
2001 (member of Conference Committee) New Directions in Organisational Performance, School of Operations Analysis and Human Resource Management, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, conference co-organizer, in collaboration with the Northern Branch of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Newcastle
1999 (with Heather Höpfl and Antonio Strati) Aesthetics II, conference co-organizer, Bolton Business School, Bolton.
1997 (with Andrzej K. Koźmiński, and Hugo Letiche) The Empty Space, 15th SCOS (Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism), conference co-organizer, Leon Kozminski Academy, Warsaw
1996 (with John Hassard, Heather Höpfl, and Burkard Sievers) Symbols of Oppression, conference co-organizer, Bolton Business School, Bolton.

Member of Learned Bodies & Professional Associations

2005 - currently: Polish Sociolgical Association
2003 - currently: European Group of Organization Studies
1995 - 1999 the board of the Standing Conference of Organizational Symbolism
1995 - 1998 Academy of Management

Research Interests

Organizational archetypes
Organizational ethnography
Narrative & mythological approaches to research in social sciences
Critical management studies
Experience economy
East European management
Virtuality and gender
Teaching research students: development of new methods

Pedagogical Cooperation

1998 - 1999 Tutor of Joanna Jemielniak at Collegium Invisible, Warsaw
1998 - 1999 Tutor of Dariusz Jemielniak at Collegium Invisible, Warsaw
2001 - 2003 Examinor at Collegium Invisible, Warsaw

PUBLICATIONS

Some books in English quoting my work:

Amernic, Joel and Russell Craig (2006) Ceo-Speak: The Language of Corporate Leadership,McGill-Queen's University Press.
Barsky, Noah P. et al. (2008) The Power of Technology for Learning. Springer.
Bauman, Zygmunt (2000) Liquid Modernity, Polity Press.
Bauman, Zygmunt (2002) Society Under Siege, Polity Press.
Bauman, Zygmunt and Benedetto Vecchi (2004) Identity, Polity Press.
Boreham, Nicholas, Renan Samurcay, and Martin Fischer (2002) Work Process Knowledge, Routledge.
Clandinin, D. Jean (2006) Handbook of Narrative Inquiry: mapping a methodology. Sage.
Clegg (2001) The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, John Wiley & Sons.
DuBrin, Andrew J. (2009) Leadership: Research , findings, practice and skills. South-Western College Pub.
Czarniawska, Barbara (1997) Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity, University Of Chicago Press.
Czarniawska, Barbara (2000) A City Reframed: Managing Warsaw in the 1990s,Routledge.
Czarniawska, Barbara (2004) Narratives in Social Science, Sage.
Czarniawska Barbara and Heather Hopfl (eds) (2002) Casting the Other: The Production and Maintenance of Inequalities in Work Organizations, Routledge.
Derr, Brooklyn , Sylvie Roussillon, and Frank Bournois (2002) Cross-Cultural Approaches to Leadership Development, Quorum Books.
Dunn, Elizabeth (2004) Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor, Cornell University Press.
Elliott, Carole and Sharon Turnbull (2005) Critical Thinking in Human Resource Development, Routledge.
Furusten, Staffan (1999) Popular Management Books, Routledge.
Gabriel, Yiannis (2004) Myths, Stories, and Organizations: Premodern Narratives for Our Times, Oxford University Press.
Gallos, Joan V.& Edgar Schein (ed.) (2006), Organization Development, foreword by Edgar H. Schein, Jossey-Bass.
Grant, David , Cynthia Hardy, Clifford Oswick, and Linda Putnam The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse, Sage.
Grey, Christopher John and Elena Antonacopoulou (2004) Essential Readings in Management Learning. Sage.
Hatch, Mary Jo and Ann L. Cunliffe (2006) Organization Theory: Modern, symbolic and postmodern perspectives. Oxford University Press.
Hatch, Mary Jo and Majken Schultz (2008) Taking Brand Initiative: How companies can align strategy, culture, and identity through corporate branding. Josey-Bass.
Hopper, Trevor and Zahirul Hoque (2003) Accounting and Accountability in Emergining Transition Economies, Elsevier.
Habisch, André, Jan Jonker, Martina Wegner, and René Schmidpeter (2004) Corporate Social Responsibility Across Europe, Springer.
Jemielniak, Dariusz and jerzy Kociatkiewicz (2008) Management Practices in High-tech Environments. IGI Global.
Linstead, Stephen (2003) Organization Theory and Postmodern Thought. Sage.
Linstead, Stephen (2003) Text/Work: Representing organization and organizing representation. Routledge.
Pavlenko, Aneta , Adrian Blackledge, Ingrid Piller, and Marya Teutsch Dwyer (2001) Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, and Gender, Walter de Gruyter .
Peng, Michael W. (1999) Business Strategies in Transition Economies, Sage.
Prasad, Anshuman (2003) Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement, Palgrave Macmillan.
Roney, Jennifer (2000) Webs of Resistence in a Newly Privatized Polish Firm, Routledge.
Robins, Kevin and Frank Webster (2003) The Virtual University?: Knowledge, Markets, and Management, Oxford University Press.
Rugman, Alan M. and Thomas L. Brewer (eds) (2001) Oxford Handbook of International Business, Oxford University Press .
Smith, Adrian (2001) Work, Employment & Transition, Routledge.
Szejnwald Brown, Halina , David Angel, and Patrick G. Derr (2000) Effective Environmental Regulation: Learning from Poland's Experience, Praeger.
Tsoukas, Hardimos and Christian Knudsen (2005) The Oxford handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-theoretical perspectives. Oxford University Press.
Verdery, Katherine (2003) The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania, Cornell University Press.
Ullmann, Arieh A. and Alfred Lewis (1996) Privatization and Entrepreneurship: The Managerial Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe, Haworth.
Holscher, Jens and Horst Tomann (2004) Money, Development and Economic Transformation: Selected Essays by Hajo Riese,Palgrave Macmillan.
Woodall, Joan (2004) New Frontiers in Human Resource Development, Routledge.

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