Special Guest - MATS ALVESSON at the Faculty of Management and Economics.
On 9th and 10th of April the Faculty of Management and Economics had a special guest – Mats Alvesson.
Mats Alvesson gave two lectures: “How to combine critical management studies & ‘traditional’ economic management” and "THE TRIUMPH OF EMPTINESS. Consumption, higher education & work organization”
Mats Alvesson holds a chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University in Sweden and is also part-time professor at University of Queensland Business School. 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, management consultancy etc. He has published 20 books with leading publishers and hundreds of articles, many of which are widely cited and used on higher levels in university education.
The special attraction of the event was a concert by the UDA [more about the band on https://www.facebook.com/events/1405727463030223/], which consists of members associated with the Jagiellonian University, the great admirers of creativity of Mats Alvesson. The band created a kind of soundtrack to the Swedish silent film "Körkarlen ", directed by Victor Sjöström.
