Mats Alvesson (born 1956) is a Swedish management scholar and professor of
business administration
Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...
at
Lund University, particularly known for having made key contributions in forming the field of
critical management studies.
Life and work
Alvesson received his
Ph.D. in
psychology from
Lund University in 1983, and holds a chair in the Business Administration department at
Lund University School of Economics and Management. Beside his chair in Lund, Alvesson is affiliated as an honorary professor at
University of Queensland Business School and as a visiting professor at
Stockholm Business School
Stockholm Business School (SBS; sv, Företagsekonomiska institutionen) is one of the largest academic departments at Stockholm University with around 3 500 students and 120 researchers/lecturers. SBS offers BSc, MSc programmes along with PhD. ...
.
Alvesson's research interests span the fields of
organization and
leadership studies.
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:
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* 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
Hugh Christopher Willmott, FBA, FAcSS (born 17 September 1950) is a management and organization studies scholar and academic. Since 2005, he has been Research Professor of Organization Studies at Cardiff University, and has also been Professor o ...
.
Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual
" ''Journal of management studies'' 39.5 (2002): 619-644.
References
External links
Mats Alvesson
Lunds universitet
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1956 births
Living people
Swedish business theorists
Academic staff of Lund University