Stephan Schaefer

Working Through Alienation? The Ambivalent Promise of Craft

Stephan Schaefer, Anselm Schneider
(2026) Work, Employment and Society
Journal article

Craft and its Potential for Unalienated Work - Struggles for Resonance in the Swedish Craft Brewing Community

Stephan Schaefer
(2025)
Conference - other

What´s wrong with creativity

Stephan Schaefer, Olof Hallonsten
(2024) Organization, 31 p.820-828
Journal article

Craft 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 chapter

Conversation

Stephan Schaefer
(2024) Metaphors We Supervise By , p.15-23
Book chapter

The Transformative Potential of the Craft Imaginary - A Study on Craft Brewing

Stephan Schaefer, Anselm Schneider
(2024) Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024
Conference paper

The epiphany of becoming a craft worker : A work life history analysis

Carys Egan-Wyer, Jens Rennstam, Stephan Schaefer, Anselm Schneider
(2024)
Conference paper

Organizing Creativity : Context, Process, and Practice

Stephan Schaefer
(2023)
Book

The corporate social media creep

Stephan Schaefer
(2023) Culture and Organization, 29 p.124-138
Journal article

Craft as a Resonant Form of Organizing

Stephan Schaefer, Brett Crawford
(2023)
Conference - other

The Resonance of Craft – Towards an Alternative Form of Work and Organizing?

Stephan Schaefer
(2023)
Conference - other

Undervisning underskattad arena för samhällspåverkan

Olof Hallonsten, Stephan Schaefer
(2022) LUM: Lunds Universitets Magasin, 2022
Journal article

Philosophical Minds or Brotgelehrte?

Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola, Stephan Schaefer
(2022) Organization Studies, 43 p.1839-1852
Journal article

Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations

Mats Alvesson, Katja Einola, Stephan Schaefer
(2022) British Journal of Sociology, 73 p.839-858
Journal article

From 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
Journal article

Epistemic Attitudes and Source Critique in Qualitative Research

Stephan Schaefer, Mats Alvesson
(2020) Journal of Management Inquiry, 29 p.33-45
Journal article

Wilful Managerial Ignorance, Symbolic Work and Decoupling : A Socio-Phenomenological Study of ‘Managing Creativity’

Stephan M. Schaefer
(2019) Organization Studies, 40 p.1387-1407
Journal article

‘You Don’t offer Ethics to a God’: Wilful Ignorance and the Ethics of Ambiguity

Stephan Schaefer
(2019)
Conference - other

‘The Resonant Organization in a Digital Age’

Stephan Schaefer
(2019)
Conference - other

Who’s the Company’s Best Driver? : Technology-Driven Competition

Elizabeth Bjarnason, Stephan Schaefer
(2018) Pufendorfinstitutets skriftserie , p.51-60
Book chapter

This Does Not Feel Like Work : Social Media Technologies in the Workplace

Stephan Schaefer
(2018) Pufendorfinstitutets skriftserie , p.35-42
Book chapter

Introduction

Stephan Schaefer, Magnus Andersson, Elizabeth Bjarnason, Kristofer Hansson
(2018) Pufendorfinstitutets skriftserie , p.9-18
Book chapter

Towards a Theory of Efficiencyism

Stephan Schaefer, Wickert Christopher
(2017)
Conference - other

Big data får inte bli big brother

Stephan Schaefer
(2016) Sydsvenskan , p.3-3
Newspaper article

The Efficiency Paradox in Organization and Management Theory

Stephan Schaefer, Wickert Christopher
(2016) Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015
Conference paper: abstract

'Be Creative!' : Control, Demand, Hypocrisy, and the Management of Creativity

Vijayta Doshi, Stephan Schaefer
(2016) Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016
Conference paper: abstract

On the potential of progressive performativity: Definitional purity, re-engagement and empirical points of departure

Stephan Schaefer, Wickert Christopher
(2016) Human Relations, 69 p.215-215
Journal article

Towards a Progressive Understanding of Performativity in Critical Management Studies.

Wickert Christopher, Stephan Schaefer
(2015) Human Relations, 68 p.107-130
Journal article

Managerial Ignorance: A Study of How Managers Organise for Creativity

Stephan Schaefer
(2014)
Dissertation

Cyberfactories: How News Agencies Produce News

Stephan Schaefer
(2013) Scandinavian Journal of Management, 29 p.329-330
Review

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 chapter

Illusory Meanings - On Ignorance and the Absurdity of Organising for Creativity

Stephan Schaefer
(2013)
Conference paper

Serendipity as Capability : Exploring the role of (non) leadership

Carys Egan-Wyer, Stephan Schaefer, Tony Huzzard
(2012)
Conference - other

Counterperformativity, ignorance and the persistence of self-destructing theories

Stephan Schaefer, André Spicer, Christopher Wickert
(2012)
Conference - other

Revisiting Corporate Sustainability: Towards a Critically-Performative Research Agenda

Wickert Christopher, Stephan Schaefer
(2011) Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 1 p.1-6
Conference paper

Intending Engineering Work : A Conceptualisation of Engineers´ Understanding of Innovation through the Encounter with their Own Practice

Stephan Schaefer
(2010)
Conference paper

Gerechtigkeit im Entgeltfindungsprozess

Stephan Schaefer, Christopher Paul
(2009) Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 38 p.149-152
Journal article (comment)

Volvo for life? : An Investigation into Identity Work at Volvo Cars Torslanda

Stephan Schaefer, Tony Huzzard, Iselin Sommereng
(2009)
Conference paper