Mats Alvessonholds a chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University in Sweden and is also part-time professor at University of Queensland Business School and at City University, London. He has done extensive research and published widely in the areas of qualitative and reflexive methodology, critical theory, organizational culture, knowledge work, identity in organizations, gender, organizational change, leadership etc. His latest books include Reflexive Leadership (with Blom and Sveningsson, SAGE, 2016) and Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say(with Gabriel and Paulsen, University Press, 2017). Jörgen Sandbergis Professor in Management and Organization in the UQ Business School, Australia, and Distinguished Research Environment Professor in Organization Studies at Warwick Business School, UK. He is Co-Lead of Practice and Process Studies, a multidisciplinary research group within UQ Business School. His main research interests include competence and learning in organizations; practice, process, sensemaking theory; theory development; philosophy of science; and research methodology. He has published extensively in top-tier journals, as well as several books including Skillful Performance: Enacting Capabilities, Knowledge, Competence and Expertise in Organizations(with Rouleau, Langley and Tsoukas, Oxford University Press, 2017), Constructing Research Questions: Doing Interesting Research(with Alvesson, SAGE, 2013), and Managing Understanding in Organizations(with Targama, SAGE, 2007). He also serves on the editorial boards for several preeminent journals, such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behaviorand Organization Studies.
Re-Imagining the Research Process : Conventional and Alternative Metaphors