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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 edit

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]

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:^[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.

^ Alvesson, Mats; Willmott, Hugh (eds) (1992). Critical Management Studies. London: Sage. p. 240. ISBN 9781446225660. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
^ Alvesson, Mats (1983). Organisationsteori och teknokratiskt medvetande: en kritisk studie om rationalitet, ideologi och förutsättningarna för arbetslivets humanisering. Stockholm: Natur och kultur. p. 231. ISBN 91-27-01265-4.
^ "Mats Alvesson at Lund University". Lund University. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
^ "Mats Alvesson at UQ Business School". University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
^ "Mats Alvesson at Stockholm Business School". Stockholm University. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
^ "Mats Alvesson at SAGE Publishing". SAGE. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
^ Google Scholar profile