Mats Alvesson: A Passion for Critical Reflexivity and Rational Change
(2021) p.17-35- Abstract
- By employing a critical perspective toward a broad range of organizational subjects, Mats Alvesson has managed to challenge much of the conventional understanding of modern organizations and, subsequently, produce a series of alternative insights that has substantially developed organizational research and potentially enabled both organizational and societal change. While this has included the establishing of a critical approach to management studies and several novel methodological ideas, it has also involved unpacking a variety of popular concepts such as culture, control, brand, identity, power, leadership, gender, method, and organizational change as such. Mostly based on in-depth empirical studies Alvesson has repeatedly shown the... (More)
- By employing a critical perspective toward a broad range of organizational subjects, Mats Alvesson has managed to challenge much of the conventional understanding of modern organizations and, subsequently, produce a series of alternative insights that has substantially developed organizational research and potentially enabled both organizational and societal change. While this has included the establishing of a critical approach to management studies and several novel methodological ideas, it has also involved unpacking a variety of popular concepts such as culture, control, brand, identity, power, leadership, gender, method, and organizational change as such. Mostly based on in-depth empirical studies Alvesson has repeatedly shown the value of critically acknowledging the process by which these phenomenon are understood and acted upon in real-life complex and ambiguous organizations, an approach that have enabled not only a variety of alternative understandings of organizational life but also a sense of optimism about accomplishing progressive change. Consequently, Alvesson acknowledges the value of seeing the construction of knowledge as a combination of a technical, interpretative, and critical approaches. (Less)
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- Sveningsson, Stefan LU and Kärreman, Dan LU
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- 2021-09-02
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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- published
- subject
- host publication
- The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers
- editor
- Szabla, David
- edition
- 2nd
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
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- scopus:85160691274
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- 978-3-030-38324-4
- 978-3-030-38323-7
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- 10.1007/978-3-030-38324-4
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- English
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title = {{Mats Alvesson: A Passion for Critical Reflexivity and Rational Change}},
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