Alexander Styhre

Alexander Styhre, Ph.D.,professor, chair of Organization Theory and Management, Dept of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg.

Alexander Styhre received his PhD in Business Administration from Lund School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Alexander’s research interest covers a wide area of issues pertaining to the management of knowledge-intensive companies, for instance, organization learning, creativity and knowledge sharing. Alexander has conducted research in companies such as AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Volvo Car Corporation, and PEAB and a number of smaller construction firms, in most cases in a collaborative research setting. Alexander has published papers in the domains of knowledge management, human resource management, organization learning, and research methodology. His recent books include The innovative bureaucracy: Bureaucracy in an age of fluidity (2007, Routledge), Intersektionalitet och organisation (Liber, 2007. Co-authored with Ulla Ericsson-Zetterquist), Managing organization creativity: Critique and practices (2005, Palgrave. Co-authored with Mats Sundgren), and Management writing out of bounds: Writing after postcolonialism (2005, Liber & Copenhagen Business School Press) (for full list of publications, see http://www.chalmers.se/tme/SV/organisation/personliga-sidor/styhre-alexander ). Alexander is member of the editorial board of Scandinavian Journal of Management and International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies.

ONGOING PROJECT
Knowledge management in the construction industry (with Per-Erik Josephson at Dept. of Building Economics and Management, Chalmers)
Organizational learning capabilities in the construction industry (with Per-Erik Josephson)
Leadership development of site managers through coaching (with Per-Erik Josephson)