Mats Alvesson

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.^[1]

Life and work

Alvesson received his Ph.D. in psychology from Lund University in 1983,^[2] and holds a chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University School of Economics and Management.^[3] Beside his chair in Lund, Alvesson is affiliated as an honorary professor at University of Queensland Business School^[4] and as a visiting professor at Stockholm Business School.^[5]

Alvesson's research interests span the fields of organization and leadership studies.^[6]

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:^[7]

• 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. "Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual." Journal of management studies 39.5 (2002): 619-644.