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  • The Stupidity Paradox

    The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work

    by Mats Alvesson, André Spicer ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • Anti Stupidity

    How Organizations Can Trade Stupidity for Purpose

    by Mats Alvesson, Stella Cizinsky ...
    This book explores how functional stupidity – uncritical and unreflective thinking within prescribed, constrained ways – is institutionalized and why we should minimize it in workplaces.How did our organizations become stagnant, and what can be done to revive them? Contemporary societal and organizational noise, extensive bureaucratization, silo thinking, imitation, bullshit talk, and meaningless ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • Return to Judgement

    The Case for Post-Infantilized Management

    by Mats Alvesson, Dennis Nørmark ...
    Today’s organizations are increasingly complex with many structures, practices and rules to follow. While the organizational head – an administrative knowing better class - becomes larger, the space for people doing the core job of the organization to think outside the box and take personal responsibility shrinks.How can we tackle this and give workers more space to use their judgement?Drawing on ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Art of Less

    How to Focus on What Really Matters at Work

    by Mats Alvesson, André Spicer ...
    Achieve more by doing less…At work we often feel weighed down by an excess of initiatives, meetings, training and targets. Over-enthusiastic executives, interfering consultants and demanding stakeholders often get in the way of doing the 'real work'. This leaves us feeling overwhelmed but underproductive.The Art of Less offers ideas for how to create a more effective and efficient organization by ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • The Art of Less

    How to Focus on What Really Matters at Work

    by Mats Alvesson, André Spicer ...
    * SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2026*Achieve more by doing less…At work we often feel weighed down by an excess of initiatives, meetings, training and targets. Over-enthusiastic executives, interfering consultants and demanding stakeholders often get in the way of doing the 'real work'. This leaves us feeling overwhelmed but underproductive.The Art of Less offers ideas for how to create ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Changing Organizational Culture

    Cultural Change Work in Progress

    by Mats Alvesson, Stefan Sveningsson ...
    How is practical change work carried out in modern organizations? And what kind of challenges, tasks and other difficulties are normally encountered? In a turbulent and changing world, organizational culture is often seen as central for sustained competitiveness. Organizations are faced with increased demands for change but these are often so challenging that they meet heavy resistance and fizzle ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Understanding Gender and Organizations

    by Mats Alvesson, Yvonne Due Billing ...
    `An unusually comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of how organizations and the men and women who work within them are affected by gendered processes and relations. Alvesson and Billing′s contribution is unique in its sensitivity to the wide range of processes affected by gender paired with its sensitivity to the pitfalls of inappropriately applying a gender lens. This book is a must-read for ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • The Triumph of Emptiness

    Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization

    by Mats Alvesson ...
    In today's world, considerable time and effort is devoted to appearance, both for individuals and organizations; the right look, an impressive title, a favourable connection. The focus is on the surface, with considerations of substance often overlooked. In this book, Mats Alvesson demystifies some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Understanding Organizational Culture

    by Mats Alvesson ...
    With his usual engaging and inimitable style, Mats Alvesson takes the reader on a riveting journey through the diverse ways in which culture itself can be understood and how these powerfully inform organizational life.′ - Blake E. Ashforth, Arizona State University′Understanding Organizational Culture comunicates complex ideas in a manner that will illuminate for those who are less familiar with ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Return to Meaning

    A Social Science with Something to Say

    by Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel, Roland Paulsen ...
    This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Constructing Research Questions

    Doing Interesting Research

    by Mats Alvesson, Jorgen Sandberg ...
    A key step for researchers wanting to produce interesting and influential theory development is formulating innovative research questions.In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg have developed a problematization methodology for identifying and challenging the assumptions underlying existing knowledge, and for generating research questions that can lead to more impactful theories.The second edition of ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Interpreting Interviews

    by Mats Alvesson ...
    Through the use of eight original metaphors for understanding what may happen in interviews and what may guide the interviewee (more than telling the truth or revealing experiences), the reader is encouraged to do interviews in clever ways. This text enables you to question the interpretive nature and theoretical underpinnings of the interview method, and of the knowledge which is conveyed through ... Read more

    $69.29 USD