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Alexander Styhre

Alexander Styhre

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
39
Citations
8580
World Ranking
1736
National Ranking
25

Overview

Alexander Styhre is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and conducts research mainly within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, Social Sciences, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work spans various subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Finance, and Economics and Econometrics.

Styhre's research covers several main topics such as Management and Organizational Studies, Public Policy and Administration Research, Construction Project Management and Performance, Housing Market and Economics, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Public-Private Partnership Projects, and Management Theory and Practice.

Their recent publications include:

  • Crisis management as practice in small- and medium-sized enterprises during the first period of COVID-19 (2021), published in Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
  • Leadership under Construction: A Qualitative Exploration of Leadership Processes in Construction Companies in Sweden (2021), published in Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
  • The video game as agencement and the image of new gaming experiences: the work of indie video game developers (2021), published in Culture and Organization
  • Awards and prizes as control devices: The case of urban development project awards (2021), published in Organization
  • Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector (2022), published in International Public Management Journal

Frequent co-authors working with Styhre include Sara Brorström, Jonas Fasth, Martin Löwstedt, Viktor Elliot, and Björn Remneland Wikhamn.

Styhre has contributed to several publication venues multiple times, with notable presence in the Scandinavian Journal of Management, International Public Management Journal, Construction Management and Economics, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal, and International Journal of Organizational Analysis.

In addition to journal articles, Styhre has authored books published by Edward Elgar Publishing. Titles include The Value of Theorizing (2024), The Political Constitution of the Corporation (2020), The New Corporate Landscape (2022), and A Pragmatist Theory of Economic Reason (2025).

Best Publications

  • The practice turn in contemporary theory

    Alexander Styhre

  • Non‐linear change in organizations: organization change management informed by complexity theory

    Alexander Styhre

  • Collaborative research in organizations : foundations for learning, change, and theoretical development

    Niclas Adler;Abraham B Shani;Alexander Styhre

  • Management Consultants - Friend or Foe? Understanding the Ambiguous Client-Consultant Relationship

    Andreas Werr;Alexander Styhre

  • Managing Creativity in Organizations

    Alexander Styhre;Mats Sundgren

  • Rethinking Knowledge: A Bergsonian Critique of the Notion of Tacit Knowledge*

    Alexander Styhre

  • Knowledge Sharing in Organizations

    Thomas Kalling;Alexander Styhre

  • Understanding Knowledge Management: Critical and Postmodern Perspectives

    Alexander Styhre

  • Kaizen, Ethics, and Care of the Operations: Management After Empowerment

    Alexander Styhre

  • Bring in the arts and get the creativity for free: A study of the Artists in Residence project

    Alexander Styhre;Michael Eriksson

  • Collaborative Research in Organizations

    Niclas Adler;A.B. Shani;Alexander Styhre

  • Learning capabilities in organizational networks: case studies of six construction projects

    Alexander Styhre;Per‐Erik Josephson;Ingeborg Knauseder

  • Exploring university‐industry collaboration in research centres

    Frida Lind;Alexander Styhre;Lise Aaboen

  • Organisering och intersektionalitet

    Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist;Alexander Styhre

  • The knowledge‐intensive company and the economy of sharing: rethinking utility and knowledge management

    Alexander Styhre

  • The Innovative Bureaucracy: Bureaucracy in an Age of Fluidity

    Alexander Styhre

  • The (re)embodied organization: four perspectives on the body in organizations

    Alexander Styhre

  • Overcoming the glass barriers: Reflection and action in the “Women to the top” programme

    Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist;Alexander Styhre

  • When the good times are over: Professionals encountering new technology

    Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist;Kajsa Lindberg;Alexander Styhre

  • The bureaucratization of the project manager function: The case of the construction industry

    Alexander Styhre

  • The financialization of the firm

    Alexander Styhre

Frequent Co-Authors

Janne Tienari
Janne Tienari Hanken School of Economics
Thomas W. H. Ng
Thomas W. H. Ng University of Hong Kong
Aaron Cohen
Aaron Cohen University of Haifa
Cheri Ostroff
Cheri Ostroff University of South Australia
Ronald J. Burke
Ronald J. Burke York University
Karin Sanders
Karin Sanders University of New South Wales
Juan I. Sanchez
Juan I. Sanchez Florida International University
Dov Zohar
Dov Zohar Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Talya N. Bauer
Talya N. Bauer Portland State University
Dean Tjosvold
Dean Tjosvold Lingnan University

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