Mats Alvesson

62 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0001-8709-4684

Lund University; University of Bath; Bayes Business School, City and St George's, University of London

Publications

• A Theory of Leadership Meta-Talk and the Talking-Doing Gap — Journal of Management Studies 2026
• Living the Janus Face: The Promise and Perils of Role-Distancing for Middle Managers — Journal of Management Studies 2025
• Critical Management Studies: A Critical Review — Journal of Management Studies 2025
• ‘Is it worth doing this or is it better to commit suicide?’: On ethical clearance at a university — Human Relations 2025
• Critical Management Studies: From One-Dimensional Critique to Three-Dimensional Scepticism — Journal of Management Studies 2025
• The Art of Phenomena Construction: A Framework for Coming Up with Research Phenomena beyond ‘the Usual Suspects’ — Journal of Management Studies 2024
• Media Review: The Happy Worker – Or How Work Was Sabotaged — Organization Studies 2024
• The hegemonic ambiguity of big concepts in organization studies — Human Relations 2022
• Organizational Dischronization: On Meaning and Meaninglessness, Sensemaking and Nonsensemaking — Journal of Management Studies 2022
• Philosophical Minds or Brotgelehrte? — Organization Studies 2022
• Explaining Ignoring: Working with Information that Nobody Uses — Organization Studies 2022
• Pre-understanding: An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research — Organization Studies 2022
• Meanings of Theory: Clarifying Theory through Typification — Journal of Management Studies 2021
• When ‘Good’ Leadership Backfires: Dynamics of the leader/follower relation — Organization Studies 2021
• Sandwiched: Exploring role and identity of middle managers in the genuine middle — Human Relations 2020
• The Problematizing Review: A Counterpoint to Elsbach and Van Knippenberg’s Argument for Integrative Reviews — Journal of Management Studies 2020
• Neo-Institutional Theory and Organization Studies: A Mid-Life Crisis? — Organization Studies 2019
• The making and unmaking of teams — Human Relations 2019
• Money Matters: Teflonic Identity Manoeuvring in the Investment Banking Sector — Organization Studies 2016
• Extending critical performativity — Human Relations 2016
• Habitat and Habitus: Boxed-in versus Box-Breaking Research — Organization Studies 2014
• The closing of critique, pluralism and reflexivity: A response to Hardy and Grant and some wider reflections — Human Relations 2013
• Has Management Studies Lost Its Way? Ideas for More Imaginative and Innovative Research — Journal of Management Studies 2013
• Critical leadership studies: The case for critical performativity — Human Relations 2012
• A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organizations — Journal of Management Studies 2012
• Generating Research Questions Through Problematization — Academy of Management Review 2011
• De-Essentializing the Knowledge Intensive Firm: Reflections on Sceptical Research Going against the Mainstream — Journal of Management Studies 2011
• Decolonializing discourse: Critical reflections on organizational discourse analysis — Human Relations 2011
• Organizational discourse analysis - well done or too rare? A reply to our critics — Human Relations 2011
• Self-doubters, strugglers, storytellers, surfers and others: Images of self-identities in organization studies — Human Relations 2010
• Resisting resistance: Counter-resistance, consent and compliance in a consultancy firm — Human Relations 2009
• Critical performativity: The unfinished business of critical management studies — Human Relations 2009
• On the Social Nature of Explicating Mystery Construction in Theory Development: A Response to McKinley — Academy of Management Review 2008
• Reflecting on Reflexivity: Reflexive Textual Practices in Organization and Management Theory — Journal of Management Studies 2008
• Constructing mystery: Empirical matters in theory development — Academy of Management Review 2007
• Unraveling HRM: Identity, Ceremony, and Control in a Management Consulting Firm — Organization Science 2007
• Interfaces of control. Technocratic and socio-ideological control in a global management consultancy firm — Accounting, Organizations and Society 2004
• Book Reviews — Administrative Science Quarterly 2003
• Managers Doing Leadership: The Extra-Ordinarization of the Mundane — Human Relations 2003
• Managing Managerial Identities: Organizational Fragmentation, Discourse and Identity Struggle — Human Relations 2003
• Beyond Neopositivists, Romantics, and Localists: A Reflexive Approach to Interviews in Organizational Research — Academy of Management Review 2003
• Good Visions, Bad Micro-management and Ugly Ambiguity: Contradictions of (Non-)Leadership in a Knowledge-Intensive Organization — Organization Studies 2003
• Identity Regulation as Organizational Control: Producing the Appropriate Individual — Journal of Management Studies 2002
• Knowledge Work: Ambiguity, Image and Identity — Human Relations 2001
• Odd Couple: Making Sense of the Curious Concept of Knowledge Management — Journal of Management Studies 2001
• Making Newsmakers: Conversational Identity at Work — Organization Studies 2001
• Social Indentity And The Problem of Loyalty In Knowledge-Intensive Companies — Journal of Management Studies 2000
• Gender Relations and Identity at Work: A Case Study of Masculinities and Femininities in an Advertising Agency — Human Relations 1998
• The Meaning and Meaninglessness of Postmodernism: Some Ironic Remarks — Organization Studies 1995
• Talking in Organizations: Managing Identity and Impressions in an Advertising Agency — Organization Studies 1994
• ORGANIZATIONS AS RHETORIC: KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE FIRMS AND THE STRUGGLE WITH AMBIGUITY — Journal of Management Studies 1993
• TRANSACTION COSTS, CLANS AND CORPORATE CULTURE — Journal of Management Studies 1993
• Gender and Organization: Towards a Differentiated Understanding — Organization Studies 1992
• On the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies — Academy of Management Review 1992
• Leadership as Social Integrative Action. A Study of a Computer Consultancy Company — Organization Studies 1992
• ORGANIZATIONAL SYMBOLISM AND IDEOLOGY* — Journal of Management Studies 1991
• Organization: From Substance to Image? — Organization Studies 1990
• Book Reviews : Marvin R. Weisbord: Productive Workplaces, Organizing and Managing for Dignity, Meaning and Community — Organization Studies 1989
• Book Reviews : Michael Reed: Redirections in Organizational Analysis 1985, London: Tavistock. 230 pages — Organization Studies 1988
• Book Reviews : P. J. D. Drenth, H. Thierry, P. H. Willems, and C. J. de Wolff (eds.): Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology, vols. 1 and 2. 1984, Chichester: Wiley. 1230 pages — Organization Studies 1987
• A Critical Framework for Organizational Analysis — Organization Studies 1985
• Varieties of Discourse: On the Study of Organizations through Discourse Analysis — Human Relations