Circulating Knowledge and Elites

Sławomir J. Magala is currently with the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw, Poland (since 2019). He has taught cross-cultural management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands (1985-2015) and at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland (2016-2019). He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Change Management (since 2004). He wrote “Class Struggle in Classless Poland” (1982), “Between Stock Exchange and a Waste Dump” (1999, in Polish), “Cross-Cultural Management” (2005), “The Management of Meaning in Organizations” (2009), and “The Third Enlightenment or Globalizing Meritocracies” (2021). He has also co-edited “Managing Public Trust” (2018) and “Hofstede Matters” (2024), and translated Susan Sontag, Alfred N. Whitehead, John Barth, Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer into Polish. He has supervised over 100 master theses and 25 PhD dissertations. He is interested in the philosophy of science, as it turns into the management of knowledge and transforms the cultural contents of digitalized communications, and has sometimes held the role of a public intellectual.