2026 Mats Alvesson: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	100	45	43	1	1	330	69932

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Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Mats Alvesson is an academic affiliated with Lund University in Sweden, specializing in Business, Management and Accounting. Their research activity covers a broad spectrum within organizational and management studies, documenting a particular concentration in subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Information Systems and Management, and General Health Professions.

The central themes in Mats Alvesson's work involve Management and Organizational Studies, Management Theory and Practice, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Ethics in Business and Education, Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies, Innovation and Knowledge Management, and Critical Realism in Sociology.

Alvesson has contributed to several notable academic journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

Journal of Management Studies
Academy of Management Proceedings
Organization Studies
The Leadership Quarterly
Human Relations

Best Publications

Understanding organizational culture

Mats Alvesson

4157
Citations
Identity regulation as organizational control: Producing the appropriate individual

Mats Alvesson;Hugh Willmott

3835
Citations
Doing critical management research

Mats Alvesson

3176
Citations
Varieties of Discourse: On the Study of Organizations through Discourse Analysis

Mats Alvesson;Dan Kärreman

2784
Citations
Managing Managerial Identities Organizational Fragmentation, Discourse and Identity Struggle

Stefan Sveningsson;Mats Alvesson

2421
Citations
Managing managerial identities: Organizational fragmentation, discourse and identity struggle

Stefan Sveningsson;Mats Alvesson

2421
Citations
Beyond Neopositivists, Romantics, and Localists: A Reflexive Approach to Interviews in Organizational Research

Mats Alvesson

2410
Citations
Understanding gender and organizations

Mats Alvesson;Yvonne Due Billing

1949
Citations
Knowledge work and knowledge-intensive firms

Mats Alvesson

1774
Citations
Constructing mystery: Empirical matters in theory development

Mats Alvesson;Dan Kärreman

1750
Citations
Identity matters: Reflections on the construction of identity scholarship in organization studies

Mats Alvesson;Karen Lee Ashcraft;Robyn Thomas

1640
Citations
Knowledge Work: Ambiguity, Image and Identity

Mats Alvesson

1521
Citations
Critical Management Studies

Mats Alvesson;Hugh Willmott

1347
Citations
On the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies

Mats Alvesson;Hugh Willmott

1311
Citations
Taking the Linguistic Turn in Organizational Research: Challenges, Responses, Consequences

Mats Alvesson;Dan Kärreman

1252
Citations
Social identity and the problem of loyalty in knowledge-intensive companies

Mats Alvesson

1199
Citations
Changing Organizational Culture: Cultural Change Work in Progress

Mats Alvesson;Stefan Sveningsson

1134
Citations
Corporate Culture and Organizational Symbolism: An Overview

Mats Alvesson;Per-Olof Berg

1114
Citations
Management of knowledge-intensive companies

Mats Alvesson

1040
Citations
Ways of constructing research questions: gap-spotting or problematization?

Jörgen Sandberg;Mats Alvesson

1024
Citations
Organization: From Substance to Image?

Mats Alvesson

992
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh Willmott City, University of London

André Spicer City, University of London

Andrew Sturdy University of Bristol

Ian I. Mitroff University of California, Berkeley

Harrison M. Trice Cornell University

Yiannis Gabriel University of Bath

Cynthia Hardy University of Melbourne

Gustav Jahoda University of Strathclyde

Mary Jo Hatch University of Virginia

William L. Gardner Texas Tech University

External Links

Personal website of Mats Alvesson Google Scholar page

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