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This book is essential reading for students and researchers looking to formulate interesting research questions and conduct more engaging and original research.

This book is essential reading for students and researchers looking to formulate interesting research questions and conduct more engaging and original research.

Using eight original metaphors, this text presents a critique of interviewing methods and practices and encourages researchers to think about the issues surrounding their interview method.

Using eight original metaphors, this text presents a critique of interviewing methods and practices and encourages researchers to think about the issues surrounding their interview method.

This second edition updates Alvesson's significant critique of the economy of persuasion, where organizations and groups assign resources to rhetoric, image, and reputation rather than production of goods and services. It examines critical phenomena such as the knowledge society, consumption, higher education, organizational change, and leadership.

This book addresses the concept of knowledge, and its use in the contexts of work and organizations. It provides a critical understanding of current approaches to knowledge management, organization and the 'knowledge economy'. The author describes a number of cases of 'knowledge intensivefirms', including IT firms, management consultancy firms, advertising agencies and life science companies. He emphasizes the ambiguity of knowledge in the inp...

This book offers a unique solution to the shortage of more imaginative and engaging research by re-imagining the core elements of the research process.

This book offers a unique solution to the shortage of more imaginative and engaging research by re-imagining the core elements of the research process.

Based on the seminal text from the beginning of the Twenty-first Century,  Doing Critical Management Research (SAGE, 2000), Alvesson and Deetz have broadened their focus to provide an authoritative and insightful framework for navigating critical theories and methods across all of the social sciences.

This enhanced edition considers the most recent studies on organizational change practice, with new examples from businesses and the public sector, and includes one empirical study which uses the authors¿ own framework, enriching their practical recommendations. It also draws on the latest theoretical developments, including ideas of power and storytelling.

Based on the seminal text from the beginning of the Twenty-first Century,  Doing Critical Management Research (SAGE, 2000), Alvesson and Deetz have broadened their focus to provide an authoritative and insightful framework for navigating critical theories and methods across all of the social sciences.

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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Metatheoretical and Methodological Points of Departure -- 2. Work Conditions in Modern Society -- 3. The Importance of Work to the Individual -- 4. Personality, Adjustment and Work Organization -- 5. Job Satisfaction, Motivation and Meaning of Work -- 6. Theories of Organization and Work Conditions -- 7. Organization Theory and Ideology -- 8. Organizations, Culture and Ideology -- 9. ...

Building on the acclaimed and successful previous editions, the Third Edition provides further critical updates and illustrations of the applications of reflexive methodology in formulating research strategies.

This book addresses the concept of knowledge, and its use in the contexts of work and organizations. It provides a critical understanding of current approaches to knowledge management, organization and the 'knowledge economy'. The author describes a number of cases of 'knowledge intensivefirms', including IT firms, management consultancy firms, advertising agencies and life science companies. He emphasizes the ambiguity of knowledge in the inp...

Critical Management Studies (CMS) has emerged as a movement that questions the authority and relevance of much mainstream thinking and practice. Critical of established practices and institutional arrangements, it challenges many orthodoxies in management and organization studies. This Handbook maps the terrain of CMS today.

The book views the contemporary economy as an economy of persuasion, where firms and institutions assign resources to rhetoric, image, and reputation rather than production of goods and services. It examines critically phenomena such as the knowledge society, consumption, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, and leadership.

Frontmatter -- Preface / Alvesson, Mats -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Information meeting about a new organization -- 3 The meeting as a culture-constitutive process -- The meeting as an expression of power and an occasion for discipline: a Foucault-inspired interpretation -- The information meeting as communicative distortion: a Habermas-inspired interpretation -- Summary and comments -- References -- Author index -- Backmatter

All researchers want to produce interesting and influential theories. A key step in all theory development is formulating innovative research questions that will result in interesting and significant research. Traditional textbooks on research methods tend to ignore, or gloss over, actual ways of constructing research questions. In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg develop a problematization methodology for identifying and challenging the ass...

Functional stupidity can be catastrophic. It can cause organisational collapse, financial meltdown and technical disaster. And there are countless, more everyday examples of organisations accepting the dubious, the absurd and the downright idiotic, from unsustainable management fads to the cult of leadership or an over-reliance on brand and image. And yet a dose of stupidity can be useful and produce good, short-term results: it can nurture ha...