Stefan TengbladThe Work of Managers: Towards a Practice Theory of Management
Sprecher: Sorensen, Chris
Stefan Tengblad is Professor in Business Administration at University of Skövde, Sweden. He has written several articles on leadership and managerial work, which have been published in the Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Scandinavian Journal of Management and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management.
* Part One: Framework
* 1: Stefan Tengblad: Overcoming the Rationalist Fallacy in Management
Research
* 2: Stefan Tengblad and Ola Edvin Vie: Management in Practice:
Overview of Classic Studies on Managerial Work
* Part Two: A Practice Perspective on Leadership and Managerial Work
* 3: Ingalill Holmberg and Mats Tyrstrup: Well Then - What Now? An
Everyday Approach to Managerial Leadership?
* 4: Stefan Sveningsson, Johan Alvehus and Mats Alvesson: Managerial
Leadership: Identities, Processes, and Interactions
* 5: Gary Kokk, Sten Jönsson and Airi Rovio-Johansson: Multi-framing as
a Tool in Top Management Teams
* Part Three: Operational Managerial Work
* 6: Rebecka Arman, Ewa Wikström, Ellinor Tengelin and Lotta Dellve:
Work Activities and Stress Among Managers in Health Care
* 7: Alexander Styhre: Leadership as Muddling Through: Site Managers in
the Construction Industry
* 8: Ola Edvin Vie: RandD Managers Leading Knowledge Workers with Care
* Part Four: Administrative Managerial Work
* 9: Anna Cregård and Rolf Solli: Managers at the Municipal Top
* 10: Leif Jonsson: The Swedish Municipality Director: A Managerial
Function between Politics and Administration
* 11: Lars Engwall and Carin Eriksson Lindvall: Leaders of Modern
Universities: Primi Inter Pares or Chief Executive Officers?
* 12: Stefan Tengblad: Managerial Work at the Top: Tracing Changes in
Work Practices and Efforts Towards Theory Development
* Part Five: Managerial Work in Small Businesses
* 13: Henrik Florén and Joakim Tell: Managerial Behaviour in Small
Firms: Does it Matter What Managers Do?
* 14: Anders Nilsson, Mats Westerberg and Einar Häckner: The Duality of
Strategic Managerial Work in SMEs: A Structuration Perspective
* 15: Ethel Brundin and Leif Melin: Managerial Practices in Family
Owned Firms: Strategizing Actors, their Arenas and their Emotions
* Part Six: The Way Forward
* 16: Rebecka Arman, Ola Edvin Vie and Håvard Åsvoll: Refining
Shadowing Methods for Studying Managerial Work
* 17: Rob B. Briner. Lars Engwall, Tina L. Juillerat, Henry Mintzberg,
Frederick P. Morgeson, Michael G. Pratt and Stefan Tengblad: Bridging
the Management Theory and Practice Gap
* 18: Stefan Tengblad: Conclusion and the Way Forward: Towards a
Practice Theory of Management
