Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mats alvesson

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  • CONSTRUCTING RESEARCH QUESTIONS
    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. ...

    $756.24

  • INTERPRETING INTERVIEWS
    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...

    $840.27

  • RE-IMAGINING THE RESEARCH PROCESS
    MATS ALVESSON / JORGEN SANDBERG
    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.  In contrast to existing methods, which mainly focus on standard ingredients in the research process, the metaphorical approach taken here offers a more varied and comprehensive platform for producing novel, influential and rele...

    $899.60

  • DOING CRITICAL RESEARCH
    MATS ALVESSON / STANLEY DEETZ
    This title builds on the success of Doing Critical Management Research which has proven to be a seminal text in the 20 years since publication. In 2020, Alvesson and Deetz have broadened their focus and updated the original book to offer relevance to critical research across all of the social sciences.  In reflecting contemporary theoretical and methodological turns over the pa...

    $1,103.28

  • REFLEXIVE METHODOLOGY
    MATS ALVESSON / KAJ SKÖLDBERG
    Praise for the Second Edition:  "In opposition to most literature on how to conduct good social science research which is either empirically oriented or gives priority to theoretical and philosophical considerations, which tends to make empirical research look odd or irrelevant, this volume on ′Reflexive Methodology′ explicitly turns towards a consideration of the perceptual, c...

    $1,306.96

  • REFLEXIVE LEADERSHIP
    MATS ALVESSON / MARTIN BLOM / STEFAN SVENINGSSON
    Making a case for a reflexive approach to leadership, the authors draw upon decades of carrying out in-depth studies of professionals trying to "do" leadership. Through interviews with managers and their subordinates, getting a good understanding of organizational context, and critically interpreting their observations considering both leadership theories and a wealth of other ...

    $899.60

  • CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
    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 as a part of it? 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 th...

    $1,239.00

  • CONSTRUCTING RESEARCH QUESTIONS
    MATS ALVESSON / JORGEN SANDBERG
    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 pro...

    $941.10

  • UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
    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...

    $1,150.61

  • UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
    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...

    $1,150.61

  • MAKING SENSE OF MANAGEMENT
    MATS ALVESSON / HUGH WILLMOTT
    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. Along the way, it has proven to be a landmark contribution to critical management studies. As well as setting the agenda for current res...

    $1,049.08

  • QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND THEORY DEVELOPMENT
    MATS ALVESSON / DAN KARREMAN
    Empirical data is one of the cornerstones of knowledge in the social sciences, and yet the researcher often takes it for granted, reserving his or her imaginative faculties for finding a theory that ′fits the data′. This revealing account of the theory-data relationship calls this faith in data into question and establishes a reflexive framework and vocabulary to explore the cr...

    $1,015.24

  • METAPHORS WE LEAD BY
    ALVESSON, MATS / SPICER, ANDRÉ
    We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic ill can be mended through better leadership. Sometimes, this commitment to leadership is followed by hero worshipping, wishful thinking and misplaced hope. Seeking to understand the faith we place in leadership, the authors draw on a number of in-depth studies of managers trying...

    $1,499.00

  • UNDERSTANDING GENDER AND ORGANIZATIONS
    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...

    $1,336.73