Mats Alvesson

Autor de The Stupidity Paradox: The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work

37 Obras 324 Miembros 6 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

Mats Alvesson is Professor in Business Administration at the University of Lund, the University of Queensland Business School, and Cass Business School. Kaj Skldberg is Professor Emeritus in Business Administration at the School of Business, University of Stockholm.

Obras de Mats Alvesson

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The Stupidity Paradox: The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work (1841) 61 copias

The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education, and Work Organization (2006) 34 copias

Tolkning och reflektion : vetenskapsfilosofi och kvalitativ metod (1994) 23 copias

Understanding Organizational Culture (2002) 22 copias

Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research (1993) 18 copias

Doing Critical Management Research (SAGE Series in Management Research) (2000) 16 copias

Changing Organizational Culture: Cultural Change Work in Progress (2007) 14 copias

Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction (1996) 14 copias

Understanding Gender and Organizations (1997) 12 copias

Constructing Research Questions: Doing Interesting Research (2013) 10 copias

Qualitative Research and Theory Development: Mystery as Method (2011) 10 copias

The Oxford handbook of critical management studies (2009) 10 copias

Interpreting Interviews (2010) 10 copias

Cultural Perspectives on Organizations (1993) 7 copias

Postmodernism and Social Research (Understanding Social Research) (2002) 7 copias

Knowledge work and knowledge-intensive firms (2004) 6 copias

Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World (2010) 6 copias

Extra allt (2019) 5 copias

Organisationer, ledning och processer (2007) 5 copias

Studying Management Critically (2003) 5 copias

Return to meaning : a social science with something to say (2017) 4 copias

Corporate Culture and Organizational Symbolism: An Overview (De Gruyter Studies in Organization) (1992) 4 copias

Kön och organisation (1999) 4 copias

Management of knowledge-intensive companies (1995) 2 copias

Critical management studies (1992) 2 copias

Communication, Power and Organization (History of Religions in Translation) (1996) 2 copias

Organisationskultur och ledning (2009) 1 copia

Kunskapsarbete och kunskapsföretag (2004) 1 copia

Sociala störningar av självet : om den narcissistiska karaktärsstörningens utbredning (1989) 1 copia

IT, organiserande och ledarskap (2000) 1 copia

När ledarskapet krackelerar : insikter från den inte så lätta praktiken 1 copia

Kommunikation, makt och organisation : kritiska tolkningar av ett informationsmöte i ett företag (2002) 1 copia

Organisationsteori på svenska (1998) 1 copia

Organisationsidentitet och organisationsbyggande : en studie av ett industriföretag (1992) 1 copia

Prospettive culturali per l'organizzazione. Persone, pratiche sociali, relazioni di lavoro 1 copia

Organization theory and technocratic consciousness : rationality, ideology, and quality of work (1987) 1 copia

Doing Critical Research (2021) 1 copia

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Fecha de nacimiento: 1956
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The stupidity paradox : the power and pitfalls of… por Mats Alvesson

As very often happens with management books, a very good idea - functional stupidity as the core competence of contemporary business organizations - reiterated for 200 pages and used to re-frame more common organizational problems. Anyway, still a good idea.

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d.v. | 2 reseñas más. | May 16, 2023 |

The Stupidity Paradox: The Power and Pitfalls of… por Mats Alvesson

A sceptical look at how modern organizations work. Some of the points I liked the most:

- a lot of what is called knowledge work isn't in fact very complicated or knowledge-intensive
- fancy titles can make boring jobs bearable
- documenting what you do has become more important than the actual doing and the results
- having a "positive mindset" can mean that problems are ignored
- not questioning what you do, or why, at work can make you feel good about work, and make things run more smoothly (even if what you do is stupid).

Although a bit repetitive, I liked how the others question a lot of established practices in organizations. There are also 285 references to studies illustrating their points.… (más)

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Henrik_Warne | 2 reseñas más. | Dec 13, 2020 |

The Stupidity Paradox: The Power and Pitfalls of… por Mats Alvesson

Based on what is still only my cursory view, this book strikes me as not only quite interesting, important and much-needed, it's more than that. Reading it, one finds example after example of what we face every day in our ordinary lives. The book treats the general uses of deliberate retreats into mind-numbing stupidity as an unfortunately useful coping mechanism in so much of contemporary life. It's also a virtual 'travel-log' and guide to the amazing but routine stupidity which is rife at this very site's own discussion groups. Library Thing is clearly a model example of the key points made in The Stupidity Paradox.

Read it and weep--literally.… (más)

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proximity1 | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 16, 2018 |