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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual
- 2002
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 1467-6486 .- 0022-2380. ; 39:5, s. 619-644
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper takes the regulation of identity as a focus for examining organizational control. It considers how employees are enjoined to develop self-images and work orientations that are deemed congruent with managerially defined objectives. This focus on identity extends and deepens themes developed within other analyses of normative control. Empirical materials are deployed to illustrate how managerial intervention operates, more or less intentionally and in/effectively, to influence employees' self-constructions in terms of coherence, distinctiveness and commitment. The processual nature of such control is emphasized, arguing that it exists in tension with other intra. and extra-organizational claims upon employees' sense of identity in a way that can open a space for forms of micro-emancipation.
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- Alvesson, Mats
(författare)
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Social identity and the problem of loyalty in knowledge-intensive companies
- 2000
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 1467-6486 .- 0022-2380. ; 37:8, s. 1101-1123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper treats the significance of organization-based social identity for loyalty versus exit reactions with special reference to knowledge-intensive companies. The centrality of network relations and close contact with clients in combination with the sometimes drastic consequences of knowledge workers defecting in many knowledge-intensive companies makes social identification and loyalty crucial themes for management. The paper discusses different kinds of and modes of accomplishing loyalty and also addresses post-exit management, how companies may deal with employees that have left the company.
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- Alvesson, Mats
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De-Essentializing the Knowledge Intensive Firm: Reflections on Sceptical Research Going against the Mainstream
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 1467-6486 .- 0022-2380. ; 48:7, s. 1640-1661
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper provides an updated summary and discussion of my 1993 JMS paper 'Organization as rhetoric: knowledge-intensive firms and the struggle with rhetoric', and relate this to my own and others' later work in the area explored in the paper: knowledge-intensive work and discourse. A key aspect of knowledge work is the ambiguity of what it stands for, what people working with 'knowledge' are doing, and what they accomplish. This fuels identity uncertainties, which is also addressed and reflected upon in the paper. As part of my broader reflections, I also provide a brief overview of some methodological ideas on how to do problematization: a key theme in the original piece but which is more generally a research approach that may lead to contributions that generate interest.
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- Kärreman, Dan
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The Power of Knowledge: Learning from 'Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firm'
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 1467-6486 .- 0022-2380. ; 47:7, s. 1405-1416
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- P>This article reviews and discusses the contribution of William Starbuck's 'Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms'. Apart from situating Starbuck's article in its historical context and contemporary debates it is argued that the concept of esoteric knowledge and the focus on persuasion provides untapped potential for enhancing our understanding of knowledge work and knowledge-intensive firms. In conclusion, Starbuck's argument is used as input for a reconceptualization of the relationship between power, knowledge work, and knowledge-intensive firms.
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
(författare)
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A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organizations
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 1467-6486 .- 0022-2380. ; 49:7, s. 1194-1220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we question the one-sided thesis that contemporary organizations rely on the mobilization of cognitive capacities. We suggest that severe restrictions on these capacities in the form of what we call functional stupidity are an equally important if under-recognized part of organizational life. Functional stupidity refers to an absence of reflexivity, a refusal to use intellectual capacities in other than myopic ways, and avoidance of justifications. We argue that functional stupidity is prevalent in contexts dominated by economy in persuasion which emphasizes image and symbolic manipulation. This gives rise to forms of stupidity management that repress or marginalize doubt and block communicative action. In turn, this structures individuals' internal conversations in ways that emphasize positive and coherent narratives and marginalize more negative or ambiguous ones. This can have productive outcomes such as providing a degree of certainty for individuals and organizations. But it can have corrosive consequences such as creating a sense of dissonance among individuals and the organization as a whole. The positive consequences can give rise to self-reinforcing stupidity. The negative consequences can spark dialogue, which may undermine functional stupidity.
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
(författare)
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Has Management Studies Lost Its Way? Ideas for More Imaginative and Innovative Research
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 1467-6486 .- 0022-2380. ; 50:1, s. 128-152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the huge increase in the number of management articles published during the three last decades, there is a serious shortage of high-impact research in management studies. We contend that a primary reason behind this paradoxical shortage is the near total dominance of incremental gap-spotting research in management. This domination is even more paradoxical as it is well known that gap-spotting rarely leads to influential theories. We identify three broad and interacting key drivers behind this double paradox: institutional conditions, professional norms, and researchers' identity constructions. We discuss how specific changes in these drivers can reduce the shortage of influential management theories. We also point to two methodologies that may encourage and facilitate more innovative and imaginative research and revisions of academic norms and identities.
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Reflecting on reflexivity: Reflexive textual practices in organization and management theory
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 1467-6486 .- 0022-2380. ; 45:3, s. 480-501
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper identifies four sets of textual practices that researchers in the field of organization and management theory (OMT) have used in their attempts to be reflexive. We characterize them as multi-perspective, multi-voicing, positioning and destabilizing. We show how each set of practices can help to produce reflexive research, but also how each embodies limitations and paradoxes. Finally, we consider the interplay among these sets of practices to develop ideas for new avenues for reflexive practice by OMT researchers.
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- Harryson, Sigvald, et al.
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Transformation Networks in Innovation Alliances : the Development of Volvo C70
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Blackwell Publishing Ltd. - 0022-2380 .- 1467-6486. ; 45:4, s. 745-773
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses an important gap in the literature intersection between network theory and networked innovation by developing a theoretical framework on how to leverage learning alliances across extra- and intra-corporate levels to support both exploration and exploitation of innovation to secure its creation and its implementation. A detailed case of the Volvo C70 development is analysed with focus on how the full innovation from exploration to exploitation of innovation seem to rely on fundamentally different types and structures of networks. Our detailed description and analysis of how a ‘transformation network’ was established and operated across different organizational levels to secure not only transfer, but also transformation and integration of knowledge into commercialized innovation makes an important contribution to extant theory on inter-organizational knowledge transfer and networking.
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- Barry, Jim, et al.
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Between the ivory tower and the academic assembly line
- 2001
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - : Wiley. - 0022-2380 .- 1467-6486. ; 38:1, s. 88-101
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper considers the impact of managerialism and the reactions it has engendered in university life. It examines the degree to which institutions of higher education in the UK have in recent years been subjected to what some commentators have seen as a managerial assault, alongside economic pressures to restructure and reform, and explores the reactions of academic and administrative staff in middle and junior levels through a case study of two universities. Consideration is given to attempts to introduce managerial controls, including the setting of targets, appraisals and peer review, as well as to the resistances which followed. It is argued that the notion of resistance to domination and control has been underplayed in the literature of organization and management. In exploring its various manifestations it is shown that managerialism is not fully embedded in university life and that matters are far from settled. It is contended that those engaged in academe in middle and junior levels of the organizational hierarchy are actively seeking to keep alive the craft of scholarship by mediating and moderating the harsher effects of the changes through supportive or transformational styles of working.
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- Johansson, Ulla
(författare)
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Grint, Keith, The arts of leadership
- 2001
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Studies. - Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.. - 0022-2380 .- 1467-6486. ; 38:6, s. 900-903
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In The Arts of Leadership, Keith Grint tells eight narratives about leaders who can all be regarded as ‘great leaders’ by common standard. Yet none of them can be seen as role models for leadership. Nor do the stories fit those theories usually presented in textbooks about leadership. This is what Grint wants to demonstrate.
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