Books written by Mats Alvesson
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Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World
Some of these offer unexpected insights into how leadership does and does not work. The book sheds light on a varied - often contradictory and sometimes darker - side of leadership.
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Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World
Seeking to understand the faith we place in leadership, Metaphors We Lead By draws on a number of in-depth studies of managers trying to "do" leadership.
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Understanding Organizational Culture
The new edition contains improved pedagogy and expanded coverage of topics such as identity and organizational change.
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Corporate Culture and Organizational Symbolism: An Overview
Corporate Culture and Organizational Symbolism.
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Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say
This is what we view as the rise of nonsense in academic research ... The book's second part offers a range of proposals aimed at restoring meaning at the heart of social science research .
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Understanding Organizational Culture
The book answers questions of definition, explores alternative perspectives, and expands on substantive issues (such as leadership and change), before discussing key issues of research and providing a new framework for this topic.
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Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction
'Making Sense of Management' provides a fresh perspective on management that explores how the disruptive and constructive potential of critical theory can be realised in organizations.
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Understanding Organizational Culture
The book answers questions of definition, explores alternative perspectives, and expands on substantive issues (such as leadership and change), before discussing key issues of research and providing a new framework for this topic.
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Changing Organizational Culture: Cultural Change Work in Progress
From planning and inception to project management and engagement, this book explores the views and reactions of various stakeholders undergoing real-life change processes.
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Constructing Research Questions: Doing Interesting Research
In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg develop a problematization methodology for identifying and challenging the assumptions underlying existing theories and for generating research questions that can lead to more interesting and influential ...
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Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research
In this book, Mats Alvesson and Kaj Skoldberg make explicit the links between techniques used in empirical research and different research traditions, giving a theoretically informed approach to qualitative research.
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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies
In recent times, a set of ideas broadly labelled 'poststructuralist' have been developed to complement and challenge the insights of CriticalTheory, giving new impetus for scholars seeking to challenge the status quo and articulate a more ...
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Changing Organizational Culture: Cultural Change Work in Progress
From planning and inception to project management and engagement, this important study explores the experiences of various stakeholders undergoing real life change processes.
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Doing Critical Management Research
This volume gives an authoritative and insightful framework for navigating critical theories and methods across the social sciences, but in particular in relation to the study of corporate organizations.
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Communication, Power and Organization
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Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction
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 ...
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Reflexive Leadership: Organising in an Imperfect World
Lecturers/Instructors - Request a free digital inspection copy here Making a case for a reflexive approach to leadership, the authors draw upon decades of carrying out in-depth studies of professionals trying to “do” leadership.
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Re-imagining the Research Process: Conventional and Alternative Metaphors
This book offers a unique solution to the shortage of more imaginative and engaging research by re-imagining the core elements of the research process.