My work embraces two fields: organizational research and philosophy of action (action theory).

In the field of management I am focused mainly on theory building, organization theory (OMT) and organizational psychology (IOP, OB), with a special stress on routines, capabilities and micro-foundations of organizational 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 am currently directing a 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 is to elaborate a conceptual model of intentionality of routine behavior 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.

On 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.

Recently I joined a team of the 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 is also sponsored by National Science Centre Poland (Grant No. 2018/29/B/HS1/01868). My role in the project is to provide the action-theoretical support in developing some ideas related to demonstrations.

Work-in-progress:

submitted:

• Demonstrations as actions (with Tadeusz Ciecierski) (MR),
• Making sense of the psycho-cognitive micro-foundations of organizational routines: Automaticity/flexibility problem revisited (MR),
• Practical intentionality: injecting analytical theory of agency into organizational research. Lessons from the theory of routines (submitted),
• How the street-level misconduct happens: Deploying references to complex routines as a coping strategy with detrimental consequences (with Przemysław Hensel), Research in Sociology of Organizations (submitted);

in-progress:

• Mapping intentionality of routines: A bibliometric method.
• Defining conceptual barriers to theory innovation and development,

early stage:

• Demonstrating by refraining from gesture,
• Motor intention – is there such a thing in your head?;