Research

My work embraces two fields: organisational research and philosophy (focus on action theory and phil of science).

In the field of organisational research I am focused mainly on theory building, organisation theory (OMT) and organisational psychology (IOP, OB), with a special stress on routines, capabilities and micro-foundations of Organisational Behavior. My approach to these topics remains within the bounded resources paradigm. I also work on theory building drawing strongly from the philosophy of science and knowledge management.

I recently completed a research project: Intentionality of organizational routines sponsored by the National Science Centre Poland, (Grant No. 2018/29/B/HS4/01824). The agenda allowed my team to produce a few articles published in top-tier journals (not only in the field of management, but also in philosophy).

In the terrain of action theory, I draw inspirations from various fields – from the philosophy of science, history of philosophy of action (Kotarbiński, Davidson) through theories of rationality, reasons for action and decision theory to cognitive and social psychology. Highlighted themes are: effectiveness, intentions/planning, automaticity, cooperation, resource-boundedness. I also explore issues related to mechanistic explanations.

I also cooperate with philosophers. I recently contributed to the project Semantic and epistemological aspects of ostension: from demonstrating procedures to exploitation of the context of utterance (NCN Grant No. 2018/29/B/HS1/01868) directed by Tadeusz Ciecierski. My role in the project was to provide the action-theoretical support in developing some ideas related to demonstrations.

Work-in-progress:

submitted:

  • When routines fall apart. Collective mindfulness and the stabilizing role of leadership (with Nicolai Foss and Siegwart Lindenberg),
  • Hybrid collective intentionality: why mindsets matter for human-AI collaboration,

in-progress:

  • Psycho-cognitive micro-foundations of organizational routines: Revisiting automaticity/mindfulness problem,
  • Different yet same. Intentionality ascriptions to routines across practice and capabilities schools. Large Language Model-based approach (with P. Hensel and M. Esmaeil Zaei),
  • Organizational agency and private-public relations in tackling grand societal challenges: Towards a relational interdependency view,
  • Philosophy in organisational research review,

early stage:

  • Clockwork minds. The complexity of the psychological responses to temporal performance targets in emergency services. Practice implications,
  • Shared intentions in the Coleman Boat,
  • Demonstrating by refraining from gesture,