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 have just completed research project Intentionality of organizational routines sponsored by National Science Centre Poland, (Grant No. 2018/29/B/HS4/01824). The goal of the 3-year project was to elaborate a conceptual model of intentionality for routine actions and explore how the extant routines literature deals with the problem of intentionality on a terminological level. Brief description of the project can be found HERE. The agenda allowed 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 micro-macro explanations.

Recently I also cooperated with a team of philosophers of language at the University of Warsaw, directed by Tadeusz Ciecierski, who work on the project Semantic and epistemological aspects of ostension: from demonstrating procedures to exploitation of the context of utterance, The grant was also sponsored by National Science Centre Poland (Grant No. 2018/29/B/HS1/01868). My role in the project was to provide the action-theoretical support in developing some ideas related to demonstrations.

Recently I have started working on a Sticky Concepts project which is related to barriers to theory building in the area of organizational research. The agenda will involve multiple scholars from other countries.

Work-in-progress:

submitted:

  • Stickiness of concepts and creativity. Understanding the barriers to innovative theory building (with Claudio Biscaro),

  • Organizational agency and private-public relations in tackling grand societal challenges: Towards a relational interdependency view (with Madalina Pop and Sven Kunisch),

  • 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),

in-progress:

  • When routines fall apart. Collective mindfulness and the stabilizing role of leadership (with Nicolai Foss and Siegwart Lindenberg),
  • Hybrid collective intentionality of human-AI ensembles: two mindsets and their implications for teamwork (with Shuang Ren),
  • Clockwork minds. The complexity of the psychological responses to temporal performance targets in emergency services. Practice implications (with A. Malik, S. Patnaik and P. Wankhade),
  •  philosophy in organizational research review,

early stage:

  • Beyond movement: expanding motor intentionality,
  • Shared intentions in the Coleman Boat,
  • Demonstrating by refraining from gesture,