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 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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers |
Editors | David B. Szabla |
Number of pages | 19 |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publication date | 2021 |
Edition | 2. |
Pages | 17-35 |
Chapter | 2 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030383237, 9783030383251 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030383244 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Critical management studies
- Reflexivity
- Problematization
- Mystery
- Process
- Leadership
- Identity
- Culture