The homepage of Monika Kostera
Monika Kostera, Poet and academic. Titular Professor in economics and the humanities. She works as Professor in Management at Warsaw University. She is visiting professor at Södertörn University, Sweden, Rennes Université, France, as well as L'Université Paris Nanterre. She is Elected Member of the Sociology Committee of the Polish Academy of Science. She writes and publishes texts on organization theory as well as poetry. She is Associate Editor at the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion and at Culture and Organization, and Co-Editor-in-Chief at Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry. Her current research interests include organizational imagination, disalienated work and organizational ethnography. She is member of Erbacce Poets’ Cooperative.
Some of her recent books are Management in a Liquid Modern World with Zygmunt Bauman, Irena Bauman and Jerzy Kociatkiewicz (2015, Polity), Occupy Management! (2014, Routledge, see Review by Yiannis Gabriel) and Organizations and Archetypes (2013, Edward Elgar). She also publishes poetry.
Check out the list of my favourite books on leadership here:
The best books about management leadership as a complex quest rather than just a set of skills
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Listen to the music of Bulletproof Poets, using my poetry as song lyrics here:
Bulletproof Poets
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Last updated on: 26. 10. 2025