Monika Kostera graduated from the Lund University, Sweden (1983) and Warsaw University, Poland (1988). She defended her doctoral dissertation at the faculty of Management, Warsaw University in 1990 and her habilitation in 1996. In 1997, she became professor in management at Leon Koźmiński Academy in Warsaw, Poland. During 2000–2002, she acted as director of the Interdisciplinary Organization Research Center at Leon Koźmiński Academy. In 2004, she received the title of Professor Ordinaria of Economics in Poland and in 2017 – Professor Ordinaria in the Humanities also in Poland. She has been employed as professor and chair at Durham University in the United Kingdom, as well as professor at the Institute of Culture at Jagiellonian University in Poland and at Linnaeus University in Sweden.
Research
Kostera’s past research considered organizational culture. She also has made the contribution to organizational changes in transitional economy theory,and critical management studies. Her current work focuses on disalienation of work, imagination and organizing, organizational ethnography and humanistic management. In her research she applies an ethnographic approach. In some of her most recent publications – including the book together with Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, Irena Bauman and Zygmunt Bauman – she tackles the subject of management in social reality perceived through the lens of liquid modernity. In addition, her current work explores human dignity in organizations and utopian or dystopian future imaginaries of higher education and contemporary universities.
