My research mainly focuses on leadership and management in professional service organizations. Current interests include leadership in situations of diffuse authority; power and the ontology of leadership; professionalization processes in organizations; and the role of institutional logics in everyday organizing.
I recently finished a major three-year research project on professionalization in Swedish schools.
I have an interest in the practice of academic writing and my book Formulating Research Problems will be available early 2020 (Studentlitteratur).
Publications
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De med kunskap om kärnverksamheten bör leda
Johan Alvehus, Gustaf Kastberg Weichselberger
(2024) Dagens Samhälle
Newspaper articleVälkommen till mittokratin – NPM:s oheliga efterträdare
Johan Alvehus, Gustaf Kastberg
(2024) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper articleAdministration i offentlig sektor: Om expansion, elevering och mittokrati
Johan Alvehus, Gustaf Kastberg Weichselberger
(2024)
BookLeadership, power, and politics
Johan Alvehus, Anders Klitmøller
(2024) Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies
Book chapterVisst behövs det administration, men måste den vara så stor?
Johan Alvehus, Gustaf Kastberg Weichselberger
(2023) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper articleVarning för strategerna som slipper göra jobbet
Johan Alvehus, Gustaf Kastberg Weichselberger
(2023) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper articleBlackboxing leadership: Methodological practices leading to manager-centrism
Johan Alvehus, Magnus Larsson
(2023) Leadership, 19 p.85-97
Journal articleSpecial Issue Introduction: Making Sense of Institutional Changes in the Welfare Professions
Johan Alvehus, Henrik Loodin
(2023) Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 27 p.1-6
Journal article (comment)Institutional Logics and Functionalist Differentiation Theory: Challenges and pathways forward
Johan Alvehus, Olof Hallonsten
(2022) Organization Theory, 3
Journal articleMicro-ethnography: Towards An Approach for Attending to the Multimodality of Leadership
Johan Alvehus, Lucia Crevani
(2022) Journal of Change Management, 22 p.231-251
Journal articleFrån policy till praktik: Gränsobjekt i gestaltad livsmiljö
Johan Alvehus, Per-Johan Dahl, Ida Sandström
(2022) Den (ut)forskande staden. En FoU-innovation i offentlig sektor , p.83-107
Book chapterThe Logic of Professionalism: Work and Management in Professional Service Organizations
Johan Alvehus
(2021)
BookTo strengthen or to shatter? On the effects of stratification on professions as systems
Johan Alvehus, Sanna Eklund, Gustaf Kastberg
(2021) Public Administration, 99 p.371-386
Journal articleDiskussionen om byråkratin måste vara verklighetstillvänd
Johan Alvehus
(2021) Dagens Samhälle
Newspaper articleDocility, obedience and discipline: Towards dirtier leadership studies
Johan Alvehus
(2021) Journal of Change Management, 21 p.120-132
Journal article‘It’s complicated’: Professional opacity, duality, and ambiguity—A response to Noordegraaf (2020)
Johan Alvehus, Netta Avnoon, Amalya L. Oliver
(2021) Journal of Professions and Organization, 8 p.200-213
Journal articleForskarnas gräl är kärnan i vetenskapen
Johan Alvehus
(2020) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper articleNär boken fick en ny chans i coronakrisens spår
Johan Alvehus
(2020) Tidningen Curie
Journal articleCritical theories
Johan Alvehus, Charlotta Bay
(2020) Theories and perspectives in business administration , p.325-350
Book chapterCollective Leadership Dynamics among Professional Peers : Co-constructing an unstable equilibrium
Laura Empson, Johan Alvehus
(2020) Organization Studies, 41 p.1234-1256
Journal articleOrganizing Professionalism – New Elites, Stratification and Division of Labor
Johan Alvehus, Gustaf Kastberg, Sanna Eklund
(2020) Public Organization Review, 20
Journal articleOm undran inför företagsekonomin
(2020)
BookEn blick in i det företagsekonomiska tänkandets grundläggande struktur
Johan Alvehus
(2020) Om undran inför företagsekonomin , p.89-107
Book chapterOm att undra inför företagsekonomin
Johan Alvehus, Daniel Ericsson
(2020) Om undran inför företagsekonomin , p.7-22
Book chapterFörstelärarna har stärkt professionen
Johan Alvehus, Sanna Eklund, Gustaf Kastberg
(2019) Pedagogiska Magasinet
Journal articleÖkande administration – Belägg och potentiella förklaringar: två essäer
Johan Alvehus, Gustaf Kastberg
(2019) KFi-rapport
ReportFörstelärarreformen – hur blev det egentligen?
Johan Alvehus
(2019) Kommunal ekonomi , p.37-37
Journal articleEmergent, distributed, and orchestrated : Understanding leadership through frame analysis
Johan Alvehus
(2019) Leadership, 15 p.535-554
Journal articleInhabiting institutions: Shaping the first teacher role in Swedish schools
Johan Alvehus, Sanna Eklund, Gustaf Kastberg
(2019) Journal of Professions and Organization, 6 p.33-48
Journal articleLärarkåren och förstelärarna. Splittrad, stärkt och styrd profession
Johan Alvehus, Sanna Eklund, Gustaf Kastberg
(2019)
BookDags att ifrågasätta managementkonsulternas trams
Johan Alvehus
(2018) Svenska Dagbladet , p.13-13
Newspaper articleConflicting logics? The role of HRM in a professional service firm
Johan Alvehus
(2018) Human Resource Management Journal, 28 p.31-44
Journal articleA new professional landscape: Entangled institutional logics in two Swedish welfare professions
Johan Alvehus, Thomas Andersson
(2018) Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 8 p.91-109
Journal articleFörstelärarreformen har stärkt lärarprofessionen
Johan Alvehus, Gustaf Kastberg
(2017) Dagens Nyheter
Newspaper articleStyrning och professionellt inflytande i offentliga organisationer
Johan Alvehus, Thomas Andersson
(2017)
ReportClients and cases: ambiguity and the division of labour in professional service firms
Johan Alvehus
(2017) Baltic Journal of Management, 12 p.408-426
Journal articleFrån flytt till förändring. En studie av verksamhetsutveckling i Region Skåne.
Anna Krohwinkel, Johan Alvehus, Anders Ekholm, Jon Rognes, Hans Winberg
(2017)
ReportGraeber glömmer att byråkratier befolkas av människor : David Graeber: Reglernas utopi
Johan Alvehus
(2016) Respons , p.37-39
ReviewFel tänkt om rektorsrollen
Johan Alvehus, Tengblad Stefan
(2015) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper articleProfessional Service Organization
Johan Alvehus
(2015) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy , p.512-514
Article in encyclopediaLeading autonomous followers: Indirect, overt, and covert leadership practices in professional service firms
Johan Alvehus, Laura Empson
(2014) Cass Centre for Professional Service Firms Working Paper
Working paperAtt mäta eller inte mäta - tydlighetsparadoxen i professionell verksamhet
Johan Alvehus
(2014) Organisation & Samhälle , p.46-49
Journal articleMer kontroll och styrning kan ge ännu större problem
Johan Alvehus, Anna Thomasson
(2013) Göteborgs-Posten
Newspaper articleFinancialization as a strategy of workplace control in professional service firms
Johan Alvehus, André Spicer
(2012) Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 23
Journal articleOrganisationsstruktur - byråkratier och nätverk
Stefan Sveningsson, Johan Alvehus
(2012) Organisationer, ledning och processer. Andra upplagan , p.143-173
Book chapterManagerial leadership: Identities, processes, and interactions
Stefan Sveningsson, Johan Alvehus, Mats Alvesson
(2012) The work of managers. Towards a practice theory of management
Book chapterRiskabelt att skapa låtsasmarknader i välfärden
Johan Alvehus
(2011) Svenska Dagbladet
Newspaper articleKunskapsorganisationer och kunskapsarbete
Dan Kärreman, Johan Alvehus
(2007) Organisationer, ledning och processer , p.447-473
Book chapter