Ebusiness @ Newcastle

Malgorzata Ciesielska

Malgorzata holds the MA (Hons) in Business Management degree from the Warsaw University, Poland. Before joining the Newcastle University Business School in 2010, she was a full time junior lecturer and a PhD researcher at the School of Management of Warsaw University, at the Economic School of Växjö University, Sweden and at the Department of Organisation of Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She used to teach various undergraduate, graduate and MBA courses, in particular organisational behaviour and critical management theories, cross-cultural and international management, and a qualitative research methodology. Currently, she is working in the Research Hub for Inclusion through the Digital Economy on the business models related to the connected home concept.

Email:

Address:

Cultural Lab, Space 3
University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU

Research interests:

  • Entrepreneurship 
  • Open Source
  • Hybrid business models
  • Smart and connected home

Other Expertise:

Malgorzata was also a consultant on intellectual property rights and data protection in pharmaceutical industry. In 2003-2005 she held a position of EU Coordinator in pharmaceuticals in the Polish Ministry of Health. Her responsibilities included acting as Poland’s representative on pharmaceutical legal issues, including property rights and registration procedures in European Commission and Council of the EU. In 2006 and 2007 she also conducted couple of studies on good gender policies among Polish companies as a part of the UNDP pro-equality program.

Funding
In 2008 her research project on trust in Open Source - business collaboration networks won a VELUX Fonden grant and was financed for the consecutive three years.

Conference papers and presentations

  • 2010. The concept of trust & its effect on discursive practices within Open Source Software communities, SCOS, Lille
  • 2009. Trust in Open Source-Business Hybrid Structures in Software Production, American Anthropology Association Meeting, Philadelphia
  • 2009. Boundaries overcoming. The case of knowledge integration model of Nokia’s Open Source operations, SCOS, Copenhagen
  • 2009. Knowledge integration in business-open source hybrid structure. Talks vs. actions in multilogic environments, EGOS, Barcelona
  • 2008. (with Gregers Petersen) Trust or distrust? – two stories on source repository structures of the OSS project, EGOS, Amsterdam
  • 2005. (with Agnieszka Postuła) Dynamiczny model kultury na przykladzie etnografii firmy szkoleniowej. English Translation; Dynamic model of culture exemplified on the ethnography of a training company. Organization as a Process. Interpretative Sociology of Work and Organisation; Łódź
  • 2005. Nowelizacja wspólnotowych przepisów regulujących rynek farmaceutyczny w kontekście możliwości wprowadzenia na rynek nowych produktów leczniczych. ( Review of European Union’s law regulating pharmaceutical market in the context of possibilities of launching new medicines) Academic Conference of Faculty of Management (UW), Jachranka

Selected publications

  • 2008. Przedsiębiorczość w małej firmie (Entrepreneurship in a Small Company.) In: Kostera, M. (Ed.) Nowe kierunki w Zarządzaniu (New Movements in Management)
  • 2008. From rags to riches – a fairy tale or a living ethos? Stories of Polish entrepreneurship during and after the transformation of 1989. In: Kostera, M. (ed.) Organizational Olympians: Heroes and Heroines of Organizational Myths, Palgrave
  • 2007. Wynagrodzenia kobiet i mężczyzn w przedsiębiorstwach. (The Salaries of Women and Men in Enterprises) In: Lisowska, E. (ed.) Gender Index 2007 – raport
  • 2006. Wynagrodzenia kobiet i mężczyzn w przedsiębiorstwach. (The Salaries of Women and Men in Enterprises) In: Lisowska, E. (ed.) Gender Index 2006 – raport
  • 2007. (with Agnieszka Postuła) Dynamiczny model kultury na przykładzie firmy szkoleniowej. (Dynamic model of culture in a training company,) In: Konecki, K.T. & Chomczyński, P. (eds.) Zarządzanie organizacjami. Organizacja jako proces. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
  • 2006. Antropologia przedsiębiorczości. Nowe nurty w badaniach jakościowych (Anthropology of entrepreneurship. New movements in qualitative research) In: Studia i Materiały 1/2006 (3), Warszawa: Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski