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Managerial Lives: Leadership and Identity in an Imperfect World

Product Description: Organizations are often complex and unwieldy, and many managers have difficulty in combining ideals and positive identities with the complexities and imperfections of life. They are expected to be strategic and competent, while at the same time human and empathetic...read more

By Mats Alvesson

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Hardcover:

9781107121706 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 2016, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Organizations are often complex and unwieldy, and many managers have difficulty in combining ideals and positive identities with the complexities and imperfections of life.

Paperback:

9781107551756 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 2016, cover price $39.99

Organizational Culture

Product Description: TheÂ SAGE Library in Business and ManagementÂ brings together first-class reference collections containing the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in business and management...read more

By Mats Alvesson (editor)

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9781412961936 | Sage Pubns Ltd, January 5, 2016, cover price $1110.00 | About this edition: TheÂ SAGE Library in Business and ManagementÂ brings together first-class reference collections containing the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in business and management.

The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization

Product Description: In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, and leadership...read more

By Mats Alvesson

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Hardcover:

9780199660940 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 14, 2013, cover price $52.00

Paperback:

9780198708803 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 21, 2014), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, and leadership.

Understanding Organizational Culture

The concept of culture is a key issue within management and organization studies. Understanding Organizational Culture provides a useful and comprehensive guide to understanding organizational culture, from a range of angles, contexts and sectors. 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. Mats Alvesson synthesizes for students the advances in the field of organizational culture, drawing upon the range of relevant literature within Organization Studies. The author also uses examples to develop and illustrate ideas on how cultural

By Mats Alvesson

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Hardcover:

9780857025579 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, December 6, 2012), cover price $157.00

9780761970057 | Sage Pubns Ltd, March 29, 2002, cover price $168.00 | About this edition: The concept of culture is a key issue within management and organization studies.

Paperback:

9780857025586 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, December 6, 2012), cover price $60.00

9780761970064 | Sage Pubns Ltd, March 29, 2002, cover price $86.00 | About this edition: The concept of culture is a key issue within management and organization studies.

Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction

Product Description: 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 organizations...read more

By Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott

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9781849200851 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, May 14, 2012), cover price $143.00 | About this edition: 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 organizations.

9780803983885 | Sage Pubns Ltd, October 14, 1996, cover price $164.00 | About this edition: 'A critical-academic-analysis of received wisdom, for serious students of the subject' - Long Range Planning Provocative and thoughtful, this book provides a fresh perspective on management that is both broad and critical.

Paperback:

9781849200868 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, May 14, 2012), cover price $51.00 | About this edition: 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 organizations.

9780803983892 | Sage Pubns Ltd, October 14, 1996, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: 'A critical-academic-analysis of received wisdom, for serious students of the subject' - Long Range Planning Provocative and thoughtful, this book provides a fresh perspective on management that is both broad and critical.

Critical Management Studies

By Mats Alvesson (editor) and Hugh Willmott (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780857023759 | Reprint edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, May 25, 2011), cover price $1030.00

9780803984547 | Sage Pubns, August 1, 1992, cover price $74.50

Paperback:

9780803984554 | Sage Pubns Ltd, September 16, 1992, cover price $62.00

Classics in Critical Management Studies

By Mats Alvesson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781849801270 | Edward Elgar Pub, May 11, 2011, cover price $386.00

Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World

By Mats Alvesson (editor) and Andre Spicer (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780415568449 | Routledge, January 25, 2011, cover price $170.00

Interpreting Interviews: A Guide to Famous Graves

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9781857022582, titled "Who Lies Where: A Guide to Famous Graves" | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 30, 2010, cover price $42.95 | also contains Who Lies Where: A Guide to Famous Graves

Interpreting Interviews

Product Description: This text offers a critique of traditional interviewing practices and provides a framework for thinking about issues such as trustworthiness, identity, and language in a conceptual rather than technical context, allowing you to develop your own reflexive practice...read more

By Mats Alvesson

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9780857022578 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 15, 2010, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: This text offers a critique of traditional interviewing practices and provides a framework for thinking about issues such as trustworthiness, identity, and language in a conceptual rather than technical context, allowing you to develop your own reflexive practice.

Paperback:

9780857022585 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 15, 2010, cover price $60.00

Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms

By Mats Alvesson

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Hardcover:

9780199259342 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 20, 2004, cover price $210.00

Paperback:

9780199268863 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 20, 2004, cover price $73.00

Studying Management Critically

Product Description: `An excellent source for graduate students, especially in the field of human resource development, who are exploring areas for future research of a critical nature′ - Adult Education Quarterly Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, primarily upon critical traditions, such as the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, this text provides a wide ranging analysis of management and its various specialisms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mats Alvesson (editor) and Hugh Willmott (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780761967361 | Sage Pubns Ltd, October 8, 2003, cover price $171.00

Paperback:

9780761967378 | Sage Pubns Ltd, October 8, 2003, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: `An excellent source for graduate students, especially in the field of human resource development, who are exploring areas for future research of a critical nature′ - Adult Education Quarterly Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, primarily upon critical traditions, such as the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, this text provides a wide ranging analysis of management and its various specialisms.

Postmodernism and Social Research

Product Description: * What is postmodernism?* How can it be used to develop social research?* How can we do social research in more creative ways?This book integrates philosophical and theoretical ideas with fieldwork and supports the development of research methods with a sharper interpretive and self-critical edge...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mats Alvesson

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Hardcover:

9780335206322 | Open Univ Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: * What is postmodernism?

Paperback:

9780335206315 | Open Univ Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $63.95

Doing Critical Management Research

Product Description: Providing a detailed discussion of the practice of doing critical research in organizations, utilizing both qualitative research processes and critical theories of organizations, this textbook will be essential for all those involved in interpreting and researching contemporary institutions and organizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mats Alvesson and Stanley Deetz

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Hardcover:

9780761953326 | Sage Pubns Ltd, May 1, 2000, cover price $185.00

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9780761953333 | Sage Pubns Ltd, May 1, 2000, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Providing a detailed discussion of the practice of doing critical research in organizations, utilizing both qualitative research processes and critical theories of organizations, this textbook will be essential for all those involved in interpreting and researching contemporary institutions and organizations.

Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research

Product Description: Reflexive Methodology established itself as a groundbreaking success, providing researchers with an invaluable guide to a central problem in research methodology ? how to put field research and interpretations in perspective, paying attention to the interpretive, political, and rhetorical nature of empirical research...read more

By Mats Alvesson and Kaj Skoldberg

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9780803977068 | Sage Pubns Ltd, May 1, 2000, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: In their overview of the problems of reflexivity and interpretation, Mats Alvesson and Kaj Sk[um]oldberg have provided an invaluable guide to this central aspect of research methodology.

Paperback:

9781848601123 | Sage Pubns Ltd, September 15, 2009, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Reflexive Methodology established itself as a groundbreaking success, providing researchers with an invaluable guide to a central problem in research methodology ?

9780803977075 | Sage Pubns Ltd, May 1, 2000, cover price $56.95

Understanding Gender and Organizations

Product Description: In the decade since the First Edition of this critical and provocative text, many aspects of gender have changed, and many have stayed the same. While the gendered study of organizations is a growing field in its own right, in many real-life organizations gaps in gendered job roles and pay are as entrenched as they were...read more

By Mats Alvesson and Yvonne Due Billing

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Hardcover:

9780761953609 | Sage Pubns Ltd, January 23, 1998, cover price $158.00 | About this edition: Gender underpins contemporary organizational structure and practice, but is often relegated to the margins of mainstream organization theory.

Paperback:

9781848600171 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, May 19, 2009), cover price $73.00 | About this edition: In the decade since the First Edition of this critical and provocative text, many aspects of gender have changed, and many have stayed the same.

9780761953616 | Sage Pubns Ltd, January 23, 1998, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: Gender underpins contemporary organizational structure and practice, but is often relegated to the margins of mainstream organization theory.

Communication, Power and Organization

Product Description: The author explores the strategic web of communication that influences company policy in an open market setting. By focusing on an actual situation within an industrial company that forces interpretation, negotiation, and action among employees, communication within the company is analyzed...read more

By Mats Alvesson

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Hardcover:

9783110146226 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $126.00 | About this edition: The author explores the strategic web of communication that influences company policy in an open market setting.

Paperback:

9783110148978 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, June 1, 1996, cover price $154.00

Management of Knowledge-Intensive Companies

By Mats Alvesson

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Hardcover:

9783110128659 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $196.00

Cultural Perspectives on Organizations

Product Description: This text offers an overview of the issues which a theory of organizational culture must address. It provides a critical account of contemporary theoretical approaches in the field and examines the problem of cultural or culturally constructed ambiguity in management structures and procedures...read more

By Mats Alvesson

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Hardcover:

9780521401364 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Too often, studies of organizational culture are conceived from a management perspective, and deal largely with problems of leadership.

Paperback:

9780521484626 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This text offers an overview of the issues which a theory of organizational culture must address.

Gender, Managers, and Organizations