Mats Alvesson

The Art of Phenomena Construction : A Framework for Coming Up with Research Phenomena beyond ‘the Usual Suspects’

Mats Alvesson, Jörgen Sandberg
(2024) Journal of Management Studies, 61 p.1737-1765
Journal article

Authentic action : A recipe for success or a minefield?

Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola
(2024) Journal of Organizational Behavior, 45 p.136-141
Journal article

Zombie leadership : Dead ideas that still walk among us

S. Alexander Haslam, Mats Alvesson, Stephen D. Reicher
(2024) Leadership Quarterly, 35
Journal article

Living the Janus Face : The Promise and Perils of Role-Distancing for Middle Managers

S. Gjerde, M. Alvesson
(2024) Journal of Management Studies
Journal article

Critical Management Studies : A Critical Review

André Spicer, Mats Alvesson
(2024) Journal of Management Studies
Journal article review

‘Is it worth doing this or is it better to commit suicide?’ : On ethical clearance at a university

Mats Alvesson
(2024) Human Relations
Journal article

Functional stupidity in the boardroom?

Martin Blom, Mats Alvesson
(2024) Elgar Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance , p.264-265
Book chapter

RESISTING WHILST COMPLYING? A CASE STUDY OF A POWER STRUGGLE IN A BUSINESS SCHOOL

Jukka Rintamäki, Mats Alvesson
(2023) Academy of Management Learning and Education, 22 p.257-273
Journal article

Leadership and its alternatives

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom, Thomas Fischer
(2023) The SAGE Handbook of Leadership , p.459-470
Book chapter

De unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten

Christina Moberg, Hervé Corvellec, Anders Lindroth, Manuela Isacson, Linn Nilsson, et al.
(2022) Aftonbladet
Newspaper article

The gaslighting of authentic leadership 2.0

Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola
(2022) Leadership, 18 p.814-831
Journal article

Philosophical Minds or Brotgelehrte?

Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola, Stephan Schaefer
(2022) Organization Studies, 43 p.1839-1852
Journal article

Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations

Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola, Stephan Schaefer
(2022) British Journal of Sociology, 73 p.839-858
Journal article

Forskarsamhället klarar av att hantera etiken, skriver fyra professorer

Mats Alvesson, Per Eriksson, Lars Jacobsson, Erik J Olsson
(2022) DN
Newspaper article

Etikbyråkratin kväver den fria forskningen

Mats Alvesson, Per Eriksson, Lars Jacobsson, Erik J Olsson
(2022) Dagens Nyheter
Newspaper article

Explaining Ignoring – Working with Information that Nobody Uses

Anna Essén, Morten Knudsen, Mats Alvesson
(2022) Organization Studies, 43 p.725-747
Journal article

The hegemonic ambiguity of big concepts in organisation studies

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom
(2022) Human Relations, 75 p.58-86
Journal article

Pre-understanding : An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research

Mats Alvesson, Jörgen Sandberg
(2022) Organization Studies, 43 p.395-412
Journal article

Organizational dischronization: On meaning and meaninglessness, sensemaking and nonsensemaking

Mats Alvesson, Anna Jonsson
(2022) Journal of Management Studies, 59 p.724-754
Journal article

Organizational Psychology: When, Why, and How Is Identity Work (Less) Important in Organizational Life?

Stefan Sveningsson, Susann Gjerde, Mats Alvesson
(2021) Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology , p.586-603
Book chapter

Floskelvärdet av värdegrundsarbete är ofta högt

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom
(2021) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper article

Värdegrunderna har sällan så mycket värde

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom
(2021) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper article

Honorable Surrender : On the Erosion of Resistance in a University Setting

Mats Alvesson, Betina Szkudlarek
(2021) Journal of Management Inquiry, 30 p.407-420
Journal article

The perils of authentic leadership theory

Katja Einola, Mats Alvesson
(2021) Leadership, 17 p.483-490
Journal article

When ‘Good’ Leadership Backfires : Dynamics of the leader/follower relation

Katja Einola, Mats Alvesson
(2021) Organization Studies, 42 p.845-865
Journal article

Clarifying and expanding the theory typology : A reply to readers’ comments

Jörgen Sandberg, Mats Alvesson
(2021) Marketing Theory, 21 p.433-440
Journal article (comment)

Authentic leadership theory : The case for and against

William L. Gardner, Elizabeth P. Karam, Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola
(2021) Leadership Quarterly, 32
Journal article

Ledarskap - en interaktiv ansats

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson
(2021) , 1
Book

Behind the Numbers : Questioning Questionnaires

Katja Einola, Mats Alvesson
(2021) Journal of Management Inquiry, 30 p.102-114
Journal article

Et alternativ til lederskab og följerskab

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom
(2021) God ledelse , p.15-36
Book chapter

Värdet av värdegrunder

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom, Andreas Jansson
(2021)
Book

Critical performativity in practice : the chronicle as a vehicle for achieving social impact

Mats Alvesson
(2021) European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30 p.355-362
Journal article

Meanings of Theory : Clarifying Theory through Typification

Jörgen Sandberg, Mats Alvesson
(2021) Journal of Management Studies, 58 p.487-516
Journal article

Politisk korrekthet viktigare än kvalitetskrav på universiteten

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2020) Göteborgs-Posten
Newspaper article

Upbeat leadership : A recipe for – or against – “successful” leadership theory

Mats Alvesson
(2020) Leadership Quarterly, 31
Journal article

The Problematizing Review : A Counterpoint to Elsbach and Van Knippenberg’s Argument for Integrative Reviews

Mats Alvesson, Jörgen Sandberg
(2020) Journal of Management Studies, 57 p.1290-1304
Journal article

Viljan att reglera och lagstifta har löpt amok

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2020) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper article

Över- och understyrning : - frihet, kontroll och gnäll i den akademiska världen

Mats Alvesson, Peter Svensson
(2020) Ledning och (sned-)styrning i högskolan , p.52-76
Book chapter

Global leadership - sustaining classic managerialism

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson
(2020) Elger Original Reference Series , p.39-53
Book chapter

Inledning - problem på universitet och högskolor

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2020) Ledning och (sned-)styrning i högskolan, 1 p.23-46
Book chapter

Ledning och (sned-)styrning i högskolan

(2020) , 1
Book

Epistemic Attitudes and Source Critique in Qualitative Research

Stephan Schaefer, Mats Alvesson
(2020) Journal of Management Inquiry, 29 p.33-45
Journal article

Sandwiched : Exploring role and identity of middle managers in the genuine middle

Susann Gjerde, Mats Alvesson
(2020) Human Relations, 73 p.124-151
Journal article

171 forskare: ”Vi vuxna bör också klimatprotestera”

Per Adman, Mats Alvesson, Elina Andersson, Mimmi Maria Barmark, Ebba Brink, et al.
(2019) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper article

Warning for excessive positivity : Authentic leadership and other traps in leadership studies

Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola
(2019) Leadership Quarterly, 30 p.383-395
Journal article

Heltidsstudier måste göra skäl för namnet

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2019) Svenska Dagbladet, Brännpunkt
Newspaper article

Lurendrejeri : högskolor sviker sin huvuduppgift

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2019) Svenska Dagbladet, Brännpunkt
Newspaper article

The making and unmaking of teams

Katja Einola, Mats Alvesson
(2019) Human Relations, 72 p.1891-1919
Journal article

Beyond leadership and followership. Working with a variety of modes of organizing

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom
(2019) Organizational Dynamics, 48 p.28-37
Journal article

Organisationer, ledning och processer

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson
(2019)
Book

Uninhibited Institutionalisms

Mats Alvesson, Tim Hallett, Andre Spicer
(2019) Journal of Management Inquiry, 28 p.119-127
Journal article

Neo-Institutional Theory and Organization Studies : A Mid-Life Crisis?

Mats Alvesson, André Spicer
(2019) Organization Studies, 40 p.199-218
Journal article

Leadership : Convergence and Divergence in Leadership Relations

Mats Alvesson
(2019) Journal of Management Inquiry, 28 p.319-334
Journal article

Excessive work regimes and functional stupidity

Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola
(2018) German Journal of Human Resource Management, 32 p.283-296
Journal article

The bumpy road to exercising leadership : Fragmentations in meaning and practice

Mats Alvesson, Anna Jonsson
(2018) Leadership, 14 p.40-57
Journal article

Meningen med samhällsvetenskap : Om det ökande problemet med so what?

Mats Alvesson, Roland Paulsen
(2018) Vetenskap för profession , p.67-76
Book chapter

Return to Meaning : A Social Science with Something to Say

Mats Alvesson, Gabriel Yiannis, Roland Paulsen
(2017)
Book

(Un)Conditional surrender? : Why do professionals willingly comply with managerialism?

Mats Alvesson, André Spicer
(2017) The Corporatization of the Business School: Minerva Meets the Market , p.92-110
Book chapter

Uncreative destruction : Competition and positional games in higher education

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2017) The Corporatization of the Business School: Minerva Meets the Market , p.111-127
Book chapter

Varning för professorstiteln!

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2017) Lundagård
Newspaper article

Professorsinflation sänker Uppsala universitet

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2017) Upsala Nya Tidning
Newspaper article

Reflexive Leadership : Organising in an imperfect world

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom, Stefan Sveningsson
(2017)
Book

Reflexivt ledarskap

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom, Stefan Sveningsson
(2017)
Book

Studying culture in organizations: Not taking for granted the taken-for-granted

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman, Sierk Ybema
(2017) The Oxford Handbook of Management
Book chapter

Ofta låg kvalitet vid befordran till professor

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2016) Svenska Dagbladet, Brännpunkt
Newspaper article

Varning för professorstiteln!

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2016) Svenska Dagbladet, Brännpunkt
Newspaper article

Grandiosity in contemporary management and education

Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel
(2016) Management Learning, 47 p.464-473
Journal article

Utvärderingar blottlade grundläggande brister

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2016) Svenska Dagbladet
Newspaper article

Chefen som amatörterapeut och trivselarbetare

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom
(2016) Organisation & Samhälle , p.40-43
Journal article

Varför upphöja till universitet?

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2016) Svenska Dagbladet, Brännpunkt
Newspaper article

Vänskapskorruption och inavel på Sveriges högskolor

Mats Alvesson, Erik J Olsson
(2016) Dagens Nyheter
Newspaper article

Intellectual Failure and Ideological Success in Organization Studies : The Case of Transformational Leadership

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2016) Journal of Management Inquiry, 25 p.139-152
Journal article

Extending critical performativity

André Spicer, Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2016) Human Relations, 69 p.225-249
Journal article

Money Matters: Teflonic Identity Manoeuvring in the Investment Banking Sector

Mats Alvesson, Maxine Robertson
(2016) Organization Studies, 37 p.7-34
Journal article

Higher Education in the Knowledge Society : Miracle or Mirage

Mats Alvesson, Mats Benner
(2016) Multilevel Governance in Universities : Strategy, Structure and Control , p.75-90
Book chapter

(Un)Conditional surrender? Why do professionals willingly comply with managerialism

Mats Alvesson, André Spicer
(2016) Journal of Organizational Change Management, 29 p.1-19
Journal article

Health in organizations

Mats Alvesson
(2016) Healthy at work—interdisciplinary perspectives
Book chapter

Organizational identity: a critique

Mats Alvesson, Maxine Robertson
(2016) Oxford Handbook of Organizational Identity
Book chapter

Organizational Culture

(2016) , 1-4
Book

The Stupidity Paradox : The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work

Mats Alvesson, André Spicer
(2016)
Book

Managerial Lives : Leadership and Identity in an Imperfect World

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson
(2016)
Book

Studying leadership : Taking meaning, relationality and ideology seriously

Mats Alvesson
(2016) Routledge Companion to Leadership , p.67-88
Book chapter

All-inclusive and all good: the hegemonic ambiguity of leadership

Martin Blom, Mats Alvesson
(2015) Scandinavian Journal of Management, 31 p.480-492
Journal article

När ledarskapet krackelerar

Mats Alvesson, Anna Jonsson, Stefan Sveningsson, Robert Wenglén
(2015)
Book

A critical perspective on strategy as practice

Martin Blom, Mats Alvesson
(2015) Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice (2nd Edition) , p.409-431
Book chapter

Professional Service Firms and Identity

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman, Katie Sullivan
(2015) The Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms
Book chapter

Less followership, less leadership? An inquiry into the basic but seemingly forgotten downsides of leadership.

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom
(2015) M@N@Gement, 8 p.266-282
Journal article

Organizational culture

Mats Alvesson
(2015) Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment
Book chapter

Leadership On Demand: Followers as initiators and inhibitors of managerial leadership

Martin Blom, Mats Alvesson
(2014) Scandinavian Journal of Management, 30 p.344-357
Journal article

Habitat and Habitus: Boxed-in versus Box-Breaking Research

Mats Alvesson, Joergen Sandberg
(2014) Organization Studies, 35 p.967-987
Journal article

Chefsliv - det ska fan vara chef

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson
(2014)
Book

Den akademiska maktordningen: Om vetenskapliga kriser och nonsensproduktion

Roland Paulsen, Mats Alvesson
(2014) Skrivande om skrivande
Book chapter

Critical perspectives on leadership

Mats Alvesson, André Spicer
(2014) The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations
Book chapter

Leadership - a matter of gender?

Mats Alvesson, Yvonne D. Billing
(2014) Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organization
Book chapter

Problematization meets mystery creation : Generating new ideas and findings through assumption challenging research

Mats Alvesson, Jörgen Sandberg
(2014) Research in Critical Management Studies
Book chapter

All-inclusive and all good: The hegemonic ambiguity of leadership

Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom
(2014)
Conference paper

Do we have something to say? From re-search to roi-search and back again

Mats Alvesson
(2013) Organization, 20 p.79-90
Journal article

Beyond Formulaic Research: In Praise of Greater Diversity in Organizational Research and Publications

Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel
(2013) Academy of Management Learning & Education, 12 p.245-263
Journal article

The closing of critique, pluralism and reflexivity: A response to Hardy and Grant and some wider reflections

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2013) Human Relations, 66 p.1353-1371
Journal article

Has Management Studies Lost Its Way? Ideas for More Imaginative and Innovative Research

Mats Alvesson, Joergen Sandberg
(2013) Journal of Management Studies, 50 p.128-152
Journal article

Constructing Research Questions: Doing Interesting Research

Mats Alvesson, Jörgen Sandberg
(2013)
Book

Organisation och ledning : ett något skeptiskt perspektiv

Mats Alvesson
(2013)
Book

Does leadership create stupidity?

Mats Alvesson, André Spicer
(2013) Critical Perspectives on Leadership – Emotion, Toxicity and Dysfunction
Book chapter

Authentic leadership critically reviewed

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2013) Authentic Leadership : Clashes, Convergences and Coalescences
Book chapter

The Triumph of Emptiness : Consumption, Higher Education and Work Organization

Mats Alvesson
(2013)
Book

Understanding Organizational Culture. 2. ed.

Mats Alvesson
(2013)
Book

Understanding hierarchy in contemporary work

Susanne Lundholm, Jens Rennstam, Mats Alvesson
(2012) Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 35 p.113-140
Journal article

A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organizations

Mats Alvesson, Andre Spicer
(2012) Journal of Management Studies, 49 p.1194-1220
Journal article

Critical leadership studies: The case for critical performativity

Mats Alvesson, Andre Spicer
(2012) Human Relations, 65 p.367-390
Journal article

Managerial leadership: Identities, processes, and interactions

Stefan Sveningsson, Johan Alvehus, Mats Alvesson
(2012) The work of managers. Towards a practice theory of management
Book chapter

Managing consultants. Control and identity

Mats Alvesson
(2012) The Oxford handbook of management consulting , p.303-326
Book chapter

Un- and re-packing leadership: context, relations, constructions and politics.

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2012) Advancing relational leadership research : a dialogue among perspectives
Book chapter

Interviews

Mats Alvesson, Karen Lee Ashcraft
(2012) Qualitative Organizational Research : Core Methods and Current Challenges
Book chapter

Management is the solution: Now what was the problem? On the fragile basis for managerialism

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2011) Scandinavian Journal of Management, 27 p.349-361
Journal article

Ways of constructing research questions: gap-spotting or problematization?

Jorgen Sandberg, Mats Alvesson
(2011) Organization, 18 p.23-44
Journal article

Generating research questions through problematization

Mats Alvesson, Jorgen Sandberg
(2011) Academy of Management Review, 36 p.247-271
Journal article

Organizational discourse analysis - well done or too rare? A reply to our critics

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2011) Human Relations, 64 p.1193-1202
Journal article

Decolonializing discourse: Critical reflections on organizational discourse analysis

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2011) Human Relations, 64 p.1121-1146
Journal article

De-Essentializing the Knowledge Intensive Firm: Reflections on Sceptical Research Going against the Mainstream

Mats Alvesson
(2011) Journal of Management Studies, 48 p.1640-1661
Journal article

Qualitative research and theory development : mystery as method

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2011)
Book

Organizational culture: meaning, discourse and identity

Mats Alvesson
(2011) Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate
Book chapter

Interpreting Interviews

Mats Alvesson
(2011)
Book

Metaphors we lead by : understanding leadership in the real world

Mats Alvesson, André Spicer
(2011)
Book

'Meritocracy' versus 'Sociocracy': Personnel Concepts and HR Themes in Two IT/Management Consulting Firms

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2011) Managing Modernity : The End of Bureaucracy?
Book chapter

Critical Management Studies

(2011) SAGE Library in Business and Management, 1-4
Book

Leadership and organizational culture

Mats Alvesson
(2011) Handbook of Leadership Studies
Book chapter

Identity work in consultancy projects: ambiguity and distribution of credit and blame

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2011) Discourses of Deficit , p.159-174
Book chapter

Leaders as Saints : Leadership through Moral Peak Performance

Mats Alvesson
(2011) Metaphors We Lead By : Understanding Leadership in the Real World
Book chapter

Self-doubters, strugglers, storytellers, surfers and others: Images of self-identities in organization studies

Mats Alvesson
(2010) Human Relations, 63 p.193-217
Journal article

Accomplishments in consultancy work: ambiguity and distribution of praise and blame

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2010) Discourses of Deficit
Book chapter

Ledarskap

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson
(2010) Begreppbart
Book

Leadership ideals and self-esteem in managerial identity work

Robert Wenglén, Mats Alvesson
(2010)
Working paper

Reflexivity

Mats Alvesson
(2010) The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology
Article in encyclopedia

Understanding Ethical Closure in Organizational Settings – The Case of Media Organizations

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2010) Ethics and Organizational Practice - Questioning the Moral Foundations of Management
Book chapter

Unpacking the client(s): Constructions, positions and client-consultant dynamics

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman, Andrew Sturdy, Karen Handley
(2009) Scandinavian Journal of Management, 25 p.253-263
Journal article

Resisting resistance: Counter-resistance, consent and compliance in a consultancy firm

Dan Kärreman, Mats Alvesson
(2009) Human Relations, 62 p.1115-1144
Journal article

Ledarskap i kunskapsintensiva verksamheter: Hjälteideal och vardagsmagi

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2009) Ledarskapsboken , p.30-57
Book chapter

Critical performativity: The unfinished business of critical management studies

Andre Spicer, Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2009) Human Relations, 62 p.537-560
Conference paper

Critical perspectives on strategic HRM

Mats Alvesson
(2009) Routledge companions
Book chapter

Reflexive Methodology

Mats Alvesson, K Sköldberg
(2009)
Book

Critical Methodology in Management and Organization Research

Mats Alvesson, Karen Lee Ashcraft
(2009) The SAGE handbook of organizational research methods , p.61-77
Book chapter

At-home ethnography: struggling with closeness and closure

Mats Alvesson
(2009) Organizational ethnography : studying the complexities of everyday life
Book chapter

Identity matters: Reflections on the construction of identity scholarship in organization studies

Mats Alvesson, Karen Lee Ashcraft, Robyn Thomas
(2008) Organization, 15 p.5-28
Journal article (comment)

The construction of organizational identity: Comparative case studies of consulting firms

Mats Alvesson, Laura Empson
(2008) Scandinavian Journal of Management, 24 p.1-16
Journal article

Reflecting on reflexivity: Reflexive textual practices in organization and management theory

Mats Alvesson, Cynthia Hardy, Bill Harley
(2008) Journal of Management Studies, 45 p.480-501
Journal article

The communicative constitution of what? A response to Jian et al.

Dan Kärreman, Mats Alvesson
(2008) Discourse & Communication, 2 p.321-325
Journal article (comment)

Qualitative Interview

Mats Alvesson, Peter Svensson
(2008) International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies , p.1342-1344
Book chapter

Förändringsarbete i organisationer - om att utveckla företagskulturer

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson
(2008)
Book

Changing Organizational Culture? Cultural change work in progress

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson
(2008)
Book

On the social nature of explicating mystery construction in theory development: A response to McKinley ( Dialogue)

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2008) Academy of Management Review, 33 p.543-545
Journal article (comment)

Qualitative Interview

Peter Svensson, Mats Alvesson
(2008) The Sage Dictionary of Qualitative Management Research
Book chapter

The future of critical management studies

Mats Alvesson
(2008) The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization
Book chapter

Constructing mystery: Empirical matters in theory development

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2007) Academy of Management Review, 32 p.1265-1281
Journal article

Unraveling HRM: Identity, ceremony, and control in a management consulting firm

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2007) Organization Science, 18 p.711-723
Journal article

Motivation i organisationer: personalkoncept och drivkrafter

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2007) Organisationer: ledning och processer
Book chapter

Ledarskap - hjältemyter och inflytandeprocesser

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2007) Organisationer, ledning och processer , p.303-331
Book chapter

Introduktion

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2007) Organisationer, ledning och processer , p.11-44
Book chapter

Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies

(2007)
Book

Organisation: ledning och processer

(2007)
Book

The best and the brightest: The construction, significance and effects of elite identities in consulting firms

Mats Alvesson, M Robertson
(2006) Organization, 13 p.195-224
Journal article

The charismatization of routines: – management of meaning and standardization in an educational organization

Dan Kärreman, Mats Alvesson, Robert Wenglén
(2006) Scandinavian Journal of Management, 22 p.330-351
Journal article

Collectivity: Cultural and processual perspectives

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2006) Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Professional Service Firms
Book chapter

Tomhetens triumf. Grandiositet, illusionsnummer och nollsummespel

Mats Alvesson
(2006)
Book

Corrosion of the Coach: Self-Identity and self-esteem in managerial work

Robert Wenglén, Mats Alvesson
(2006)
Conference paper

The best and the brightest. The construction, significance and effects of elite identities in consultancy firms

(2006)
Book

Knowledge management and "organizational memory" – remembrance and recollection in a management consultancy firm

Dan Kärreman, Mats Alvesson, Martin Blom
(2005) Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital: Establishing a Field of Practice
Book chapter

Bureaucracy at work: misunderstandings and mixed blessings

Mats Alvesson, Paul Thompson
(2005) The Values of Bureaucracy
Book chapter

Post-bureaucracy?

Mats Alvesson, Paul Thompson
(2005) The Oxford handbook of work and organization
Book chapter

Interfaces of control. Technocratic and socio-ideological control in a global management consultancy firm

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2004) Accounting, Organizations and Society, 29 p.423-444
Journal article

Cages in tandem: Management control, social identity, and identification in a knowledge-intensive firm

Dan Kärreman, Mats Alvesson
(2004) Organization, 11 p.149-175
Journal article

Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms

Mats Alvesson
(2004)
Book

Organizational culture and discourse

Mats Alvesson
(2004) Handbook of Organizational Discourse
Book chapter

Good visions, bad micro-management and ugly ambiguity: Contradictions of (non-)leadership in a knowledge-intensive organization

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2003) Organization Studies, 24 p.961-988
Journal article

Managing managerial identities: Organizational fragmentation, discourse and identity struggle

Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson
(2003) Human Relations, 56 p.1163-1193
Journal article

The great disappearing act: difficulties in doing "leadership"

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2003) Leadership Quarterly, 14 p.359-381
Journal article

Beyond neopositivists, romantics, and localists: A reflexive approach to interviews in organizational research

Mats Alvesson
(2003) Academy of Management Review, 28 p.13-33
Journal article

Studying Management Critically

(2003)
Book

Managers doing leadership: The extra-ordinarization of the mundane

Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson
(2003) Human Relations, 56 p.1435-1459
Journal article

Methodology for close up studies - struggling with closeness and closure

Mats Alvesson
(2003) Higher Education, 46 p.167-193
Journal article

Interpretive unpacking : moderately destabilizing identities and images in organization studies

Mats Alvesson
(2003) Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 21 p.3-27
Book chapter

Critical Organization Theory

Mats Alvesson
(2003) The Northern Lights : Organization theory in Scandinavia , p.151-174
Book chapter

Att konstruera ledarskap. En studie av ’Ledarskap’ i praktiken

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2003) Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier, 5 p.42-60
Journal article

The return of the machine bureaucracy? – Management control and knowledge work

Dan Kärreman, Stefan Sveningsson, Mats Alvesson
(2002) International Studies of Management and Organization, 32 p.70-92
Journal article

Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual

Mats Alvesson, H Willmott
(2002) Journal of Management Studies, 39 p.619-644
Journal article review

Beyond body-counting : A discussion of the social construction of gender

Mats Alvesson, Yvonne D. Billing
(2002) Gender, Identities, and the Culture of Organizations , p.72-91
Book chapter

Postmodernism and Social Research

Mats Alvesson
(2002) Understanding social research
Book

Understanding Organizational Culture

Mats Alvesson
(2002)
Book

Departures from knowledge and/or management in knowledge management

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman, Jacky Swan
(2002) Management Communication Quarterly, 16 p.282-291
Journal article

Odd Couple. Coming to terms with knowledge management

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2001) Journal of Management Studies, 38 p.995-1018
Journal article

Knowledge work : Ambiguity, image and identity

Mats Alvesson
(2001) Human Relations, 54 p.863-886
Journal article

Professionalism and politics in management consultancy work

Mats Alvesson, Anders W Johansson
(2001) Critical Consulting : New Perspectives on the Management Advice Industry
Book chapter

Making newsmakers. Conversational identity at work

Dan Kärreman, Mats Alvesson
(2001) Organization Studies, 22 p.59-89
Journal article

Doing Critical Management Research

Mats Alvesson
(2000)
Book

Taking the linguistic turn in organizational research: challenges, responses, consequences

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2000) The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 36 p.134-156
Journal article

Social identity and the problem of loyalty in knowledge-intensive companies

Mats Alvesson
(2000) Journal of Management Studies, 37 p.1101-1123
Journal article

The Local and the Grandiose : Method, Micro and Macro in Comparative Studies of Culture and Organizations

Mats Alvesson
(2000) Embeddedness and Corporate Change in a Global Economy
Book chapter

Reflexive Methodology

Mats Alvesson, K Sköldberg
(2000)
Book

Questioning the notion of feminine leadership

Mats Alvesson, Yvonne D. Billing
(2000) Gender, Work and Organization, 7 p.144-157
Journal article

Varieties of discourse. On the study of organizations through discourse analysis

Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman
(2000) Human Relations, 53 p.1125-1149
Journal article

Integration och utveckling i Öresundsregionen. Möjligheter och utmaningar. En utredning gjord av Lunds universitet på uppdrag av Utrikesdepartementet

Mats Alvesson, Magnus Brokelind, Boel Flodgren, Magnus Jerneck, Anders Linde-Laursen, et al.
(1999)
Book

Leadership as Social Integrative Action. A Study of a Computer Consultancy CompanyLeadership as social integrative action

Mats Alvesson
(1992) Organization Studies, 13 p.185-209
Journal article