Czarniawska was a Senior Professor of Management Studies at Gothenburg Research Institute, Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law, Sweden.

[1] Her research took a constructionist perspective on organizing,[2] most recently exploring the management of overflows, and integration processes.

She was interested in complex organizations, institutionalism, action nets, organizational change, as well as methodology, especially in fieldwork techniques and in the application of narratology to organization studies.

She held an MA in Social and Industrial Psychology from Warsaw University, 1970; Ph.D.in Economic Sciences from Warsaw School of Economics, 1976.

She was a visiting research fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, US; London School of Economics and Political Science; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin; and scholar-in-residence at Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy.