'Alvesson and Deetz rehearse the arguments against neo-positivism and quantitative research very effectively! also make the important distinction between qualitative work in general and critical qualitative work in particular. The arguments here feel fresh and engaged, helped along by numerous illus[...]

In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, and leadership. He contends that a culture of grandiosity is leading to numer[...]

This book addresses the concept of knowledge, and its use in the contexts of work and organizations. It provides a critical understanding of current approaches to knowledge management, organization, and the 'knowledge economy'. The author describes a number of cases of 'knowledge intensive firms', i[...]

* What is postmodernism? * How can it be used to develop social research? * How can we do social research in more creative ways? This book integrates philosophical and theoretical ideas with fieldwork and supports the development of research methods with a sharper interpretive and self-critical edge[...]

Synthesizes for students the advances in the field of organizational culture and also uses in-depth examples to develop and illustrate ideas on how cultural thinking can be used in managerial and non- managerial organizational theory and (theory-supported) practice.[...]

Empirical data is one of the cornerstones of knowledge in the social sciences, and yet the researcher often takes it for granted, reserving his or her imaginative faculties for finding a theory that 'fits the data'. This revealing account of the theory-data relationship calls this faith in data into[...]

Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here. "With his usual engaging and inimitable style, Mats Alvesson takes the reader on a riveting journey through the diverse ways in which culture itself can be understood and how these powerfully inform organizational life." (Blake E. Ashforth, [...]

Praise for the First Edition: 'Reflexive Methodology is a textbook indispensable to any young researcher. It does not tell its readers how to do research. It does something much more important: It shows how research has been done in the qualitative tradition, thus encouraging the readers to make the[...]

The first edition of Making Sense of Management set out to provide a fresh perspective on management that was both broad and critical, exploring how the disruptive and constructive potential of critical theory can be realized in organizations. Along the way, it has proven to be a landmark contributi[...]

Varje vecka kommer en rykande färsk intervju med en omdebatterad kändis. En utmärkt kompass för dagens invecklade politiska klimat!Mats Alvesson är professor på Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet och en av Sveriges idag ledande intellektuella. Med osedvanlig skärpa debatterar han om vad [...]

Vad innebär det att arbeta med en avhandling? Varför blir detta arbete en sådan viktig del av identiteten? Hur resonerar handledare? När och för vem blir avhandlingen ett livsverk?

I boken reflekterar ett antal aktiva forskare över avhandlingsskrivande, inträdet i forskarkollektiv[...]

Kön (genus) är en viktig dimension i organisationers struktur och praktik, även om temat ofta marginaliseras i organisationsteori och företagsledning. Kön och organisation ger ett brett könsperspektiv på organisationer, ledning och arbetsliv. Författarna visar hur idéer om kön kan ge centr[...]