Mats Alvesson
{{Short description|Swedish business theorist}}
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.{{cite book |editor-last1=Alvesson |editor-first1=Mats |editor-last2=Willmott |editor-first2=Hugh |title=Critical Management Studies |date=1992 |publisher=Sage |location=London |isbn=9781446225660 |pages=240}}
Life and work
Alvesson received his Ph.D. in psychology from Lund University in 1983,{{cite book |last1=Alvesson |first1=Mats |title=Organisationsteori och teknokratiskt medvetande: en kritisk studie om rationalitet, ideologi och förutsättningarna för arbetslivets humanisering |date=1983 |publisher=Natur och kultur |location=Stockholm |isbn=91-27-01265-4 |pages=231}} and holds a chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University School of Economics and Management.{{cite web|title=Mats Alvesson at Lund University|url=http://www.lu.se/lucat/user/091f4799ef44464bd39adb572fc5c3a3|website=Lund University|accessdate=30 June 2014}} Beside his chair in Lund, Alvesson is affiliated as an honorary professor at University of Queensland Business School{{cite web|title=Mats Alvesson at UQ Business School|url=https://www.business.uq.edu.au/staff/details/mats-alvesson|website=University of Queensland|accessdate=30 June 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502033206/https://www.business.uq.edu.au/staff/details/mats-alvesson|archivedate=2 May 2014}} and as a visiting professor at Stockholm Business School.{{cite web|title=Mats Alvesson at Stockholm Business School|url=http://www.sbs.su.se/en/Research/Faculty/Mats-Alvesson/|website=Stockholm University|accessdate=30 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714174827/http://www.sbs.su.se/en/Research/Faculty/Mats-Alvesson/|archive-date=14 July 2014|url-status=dead}}
Alvesson's research interests span the fields of organization and leadership studies.{{cite web|title=Mats Alvesson at SAGE Publishing|url=http://www.uk.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=670853|website=SAGE|accessdate=30 June 2014}}
Selected publications
- Alvesson, M. & Berg, P. O. (1992) Corporate Culture and Organizational Symbolism: An Overview, Berlin: de Gruyter.
- Alvesson, Mats, and Stanley A. 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:[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xsQ0B9IAAAAJ Google Scholar profile]
- Alvesson, Mats, and Dan Karreman. "[https://secure.uk.sagepub.com/millsandbirks/study/Journal%20Articles/Human%20Relations-2000-Alvesson-1125-49.pdf Varieties of discourse: On the study of organizations through discourse analysis]." Human relations 53.9 (2000): 1125-1149.
- Alvesson, Mats, and Hugh Willmott. "[http://www.ftms.edu.my/images/Document/MOD001182%20-%20IMPROVING%20ORGANISATIONAL%20PERFORMANCE/organisational%20control%20alvesson%20and%20wilmott.pdf Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual]." Journal of management studies 39.5 (2002): 619-644.
References
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External links
- [https://www.lusem.lu.se/mats-alvesson Mats Alvesson], Lund University staff page
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Category:Swedish business theorists