Jana Costas is Chair of People, Work & Management at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Jana is the author of Dramas of Dignity: Cleaners in the Corporate Underworld of Berlin (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the co-author of Secrecy at Work: The Hidden Architecture of Organizational Life (Stanford University Press, 2016). Awards include the European Union Marie Curie Fellowship and the Best-Critical-Paper Award 2020 of the Academy of Management.

Relevant Research

• Costas, J. (2022). Dramas of Dignity: Cleaners in the corporate underworld of Berlin. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/dramas-of-dignity/CA809B72A62F6A5779FD5B4B29C0C11D

• Florian, M., Costas, J., & Kärreman, D. (2018). Struggling with Meaningfulness when Context Shifts: Volunteer Work in a German Refugee Shelter. Journal of Management Studies, 56(3), 589–616. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12410

• Costas, J., & Grey, C. (2014). The Temporality of Power and the Power of Temporality: Imaginary future selves in professional service firms. Organization Studies, 35(6), 909–937. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840613502768

Interests

• Work

• Organization

• Ethnography

• Secrecy

• Dignity

• Violence