Mats Alvesson Explained

Mats Alvesson (born 1956) is a Swedish management scholar and professor of business administration at Lund University, particularly known for having made key contributions in forming the field of critical management studies.^[1]

Life and work

Alvesson received his Ph.D. in psychology from Lund University in 1983,^[2] and holds a chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University School of Economics and Management.^[3] Beside his chair in Lund, Alvesson is affiliated as an honorary professor at University of Queensland Business School^[4] and as a visiting professor at Stockholm Business School.^[5]

Alvesson's research interests span the fields of organization and leadership studies.^[6]

Selected publications

• Alvesson, M. & Berg, P. O. (1992) Corporate Culture and Organizational Symbolism: An Overview, Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Alvesson, Mats, and Stanley Deetz. Doing critical management research. Sage, 2000.
• Alvesson, Mats. Understanding organizational culture. Sage, 2002.
• Alvesson, Mats, and Kaj Sköldberg. Reflexive methodology: New vistas for qualitative research. Sage, 2009.
• Alvesson, Mats; Gabriel, Yiannis; Paulsen, Roland. Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Articles, a selection:^[7]

• Alvesson, Mats, and Dan Karreman. "Varieties of discourse: On the study of organizations through discourse analysis." Human relations 53.9 (2000): 1125-1149.
• Alvesson, Mats, and Hugh Willmott. "Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual." Journal of management studies 39.5 (2002): 619-644.

External links

• Mats Alvesson, Lunds universitet

Notes and References

1. Book: Alvesson. Mats. Willmott. Hugh (eds). Critical Management Studies. 1992. Sage. London. 9781446225660. 240.
2. Book: Alvesson . Mats . Organisationsteori och teknokratiskt medvetande: en kritisk studie om rationalitet, ideologi och förutsättningarna för arbetslivets humanisering . 1983 . Natur och kultur . Stockholm . 91-27-01265-4 . 231.
3. Web site: Mats Alvesson at Lund University. Lund University. 30 June 2014.
4. Web site: Mats Alvesson at UQ Business School. University of Queensland. 30 June 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140502033206/https://www.business.uq.edu.au/staff/details/mats-alvesson. 2 May 2014.
5. Web site: Mats Alvesson at Stockholm Business School. Stockholm University. 30 June 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714174827/http://www.sbs.su.se/en/Research/Faculty/Mats-Alvesson/. 14 July 2014. dead.
6. Web site: Mats Alvesson at SAGE Publishing. SAGE. 30 June 2014.
7. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xsQ0B9IAAAAJ Google Scholar profile