
Stephan Schaefer
Senior lecturer

Publications
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Re-theorising Organized Creativity in Times of Generative AI
Stephan Schaefer, Benjamin Schiemer, Birke Otto, Konstantin Hondros
(2026)
OtherRe-theorising Organized Creativity in Times of Generative AI
Stephan Schaefer, Konstantin Hondros, Birke Otto, Benjamin Schiemer
(2026)
OtherThe Problem With Efficiency as a Pervasive Principle in Business School Academia, and What a Sufficiency-Based Approach Can Do Better
Stephan Schaefer, Christopher Wickert
(2026) British Journal of Management
ArticleWorking Through Alienation? The Ambivalent Promise of Craft
Stephan Schaefer, Anselm Schneider
(2026) Work, Employment and Society
ArticleCraft and its Potential for Unalienated Work - Struggles for Resonance in the Swedish Craft Brewing Community
Stephan Schaefer
(2025)
OtherThe epiphany of becoming a craft worker : A work life history analysis
Carys Egan-Wyer, Jens Rennstam, Stephan Schaefer, Anselm Schneider
(2024)
Paper, not in proceedingCraft Embeddedness : Markets and the Quest for Authenticity in Intimate Capitalism
Stephan Schaefer, Alexander Paulsson
(2024) Intimate Capitalism: Political Economy of Labour and Culture in Creative Industries , p.35-54
Book chapterThe Transformative Potential of the Craft Imaginary - A Study on Craft Brewing
Stephan Schaefer, Anselm Schneider
(2024) Academy of Management Proceedings
Paper in conference proceedingWhat´s wrong with creativity
Stephan Schaefer, Olof Hallonsten
(2024) Organization, 31 p.820 - 828
ArticleThe corporate social media creep
Stephan Schaefer
(2023) Culture and Organization, 29 p.124-138
ArticleThe Resonance of Craft – Towards an Alternative Form of Work and Organizing?
Stephan Schaefer
(2023)
OtherUndervisning underskattad arena för samhällspåverkan
Olof Hallonsten, Stephan Schaefer
(2022) LUM: Lunds Universitets Magasin, 2022
Specialist publication articleDynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations
Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola, Stephan Schaefer
(2022) British Journal of Sociology, 73 p.839-858
ArticlePhilosophical Minds or Brotgelehrte?
Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola, Stephan Schaefer
(2022) Organization Studies, 43 p.1839-1852
ArticleFrom antagonists to allies? Exploring the critical performativity of alternative organization
Sine N Just, Christian De Cock, Stephan Schaefer
(2021) Culture and Organization, 27 p.89-97
ArticleEpistemic Attitudes and Source Critique in Qualitative Research
Stephan Schaefer, Mats Alvesson
(2020) Journal of Management Inquiry, 29 p.33-45
Article‘You Don’t offer Ethics to a God’: Wilful Ignorance and the Ethics of Ambiguity
Stephan Schaefer
(2019)
OtherWilful Managerial Ignorance, Symbolic Work and Decoupling : A Socio-Phenomenological Study of ‘Managing Creativity’
Stephan M. Schaefer
(2019) Organization Studies, 40 p.1387-1407
ArticleWorking and Organizing in the Digital Age
(2018) Pufendorfinstitutets skriftserie
Anthology (editor)Who’s the Company’s Best Driver? : Technology-Driven Competition
Elizabeth Bjarnason, Stephan Schaefer
(2018) Pufendorfinstitutets skriftserie , p.51-60
Book chapterThis Does Not Feel Like Work : Social Media Technologies in the Workplace
Stephan Schaefer
(2018) Pufendorfinstitutets skriftserie , p.35-42
Book chapterIntroduction
Stephan Schaefer, Magnus Andersson, Elizabeth Bjarnason, Kristofer Hansson
(2018) Pufendorfinstitutets skriftserie , p.9-18
Book chapter'Be Creative!' : Control, Demand, Hypocrisy, and the Management of Creativity
Vijayta Doshi, Stephan Schaefer
(2016) Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016
Published meeting abstractOn the potential of progressive performativity: Definitional purity, re-engagement and empirical points of departure
Stephan Schaefer, Wickert Christopher
(2016) Human Relations, 69 p. 215
ArticleThe Efficiency Paradox in Organization and Management Theory
Stephan Schaefer, Wickert Christopher
(2016) Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015
Published meeting abstractTowards a Progressive Understanding of Performativity in Critical Management Studies.
Wickert Christopher, Stephan Schaefer
(2015) Human Relations, 68 p.107-130
ArticleManagerial Ignorance: A Study of How Managers Organise for Creativity
Stephan Schaefer
(2014)
Doctoral Thesis (monograph)Cyberfactories: How News Agencies Produce News
Stephan Schaefer
(2013) Scandinavian Journal of Management, 29 p.329-330
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)The emotional rollercoaster: leadership of innovation and the dialectical relationship between negative and positive emotions
Stephan Schaefer, Alexander Paulsson
(2013) Critical Perspectives on Leadership: Emotion, Toxicity, and Dysfunction , p.105-126
Book chapterIllusory Meanings - On Ignorance and the Absurdity of Organising for Creativity
Stephan Schaefer
(2013)
Paper, not in proceedingCounterperformativity, ignorance and the persistence of self-destructing theories
Stephan Schaefer, André Spicer, Christopher Wickert
(2012)
OtherSerendipity as Capability : Exploring the role of (non) leadership
Carys Egan-Wyer, Stephan Schaefer, Tony Huzzard
(2012)
OtherRevisiting Corporate Sustainability: Towards a Critically-Performative Research Agenda
Wickert Christopher, Stephan Schaefer
(2011) Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 1 p.1-6
Paper in conference proceedingIntending Engineering Work : A Conceptualisation of Engineers´ Understanding of Innovation through the Encounter with their Own Practice
Stephan Schaefer
(2010)
Paper, not in proceedingGerechtigkeit im Entgeltfindungsprozess
Stephan Schaefer, Christopher Paul
(2009) Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 38 p.149-152
Debate/Note/EditorialVolvo for life? : An Investigation into Identity Work at Volvo Cars Torslanda
Stephan Schaefer, Tony Huzzard, Iselin Sommereng
(2009)
Paper, not in proceeding