Sverre Spoelstra
Professor
Publications
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The leadership dynamics of systems change
Nicole Ferry, Eric Guthey, Sverre Spoelstra
(2026) Leadership, 22 p.221-230
Debate/Note/EditorialQuestioning Our Enduring Faith in the Entrepreneur : Why Business Ethics Is Not Going to Save Us in an Algorithmic World
Bent Meier Sørensen, Sverre Spoelstra
(2026) Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics
Book chapterGreat Leaders Question Philosophical Assumptions
Faisal Hoque, Paul Scade, Pranay Sanklecha, Sverre Spoelstra
(2026) Harvard Business Review
Specialist publication articleAlgorithmic leadership and the game of business
Sverre Spoelstra, Nick Butler
(2026) Leadership, 22 p.184-201
ArticleTesla’s US$1 trillion gamble on Elon Musk’s ‘visionary’ leadership
Sverre Spoelstra, Nick Butler
(2025) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleAlgorithmic Management Learning
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2025) Management Learning, 56
ArticleFlow as an Ideology
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) Organization, 31 p.425 - 427
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)“You just Earned 10 Points!” : Gaming and Grinding in Academia
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) Organization, 31 p.720-730
ArticleTaking credit for stupidity: On being a student in the performative university
Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) Management Learning, 55 p.641-653
ArticleRedemption Through Play? Exploring the Ethics of Workplace Gamification
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) Journal of Business Ethics, 193 p.259-270
ArticleVideo games at work? It sounds fun, but there are ethical risks
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleGames, incorporated
Nick Ian Applin Butler, Sverre Spoelstra, Bent Meier Sørensen, Lena Olaison
(2024) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 24 p.1-13
Debate/Note/EditorialWhat critical leadership studies can learn from (reading) Plato
Paul Scade, Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) Routledge Companions in Business and Management, 1
Book chapterHow valuable is Elon Musk’s ‘charismatic’ leadership? That’s the 56 billion dollar question
Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) The Conversation
Specialist publication articlePlayful work
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Psychology , p.523-526
Book chapterReopening the field: Reading/writing Robert Cooper today
Sverre Spoelstra, Martin Parker, Simon Lilley, Lena Olaison
(2023) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 23
Debate/Note/EditorialAlgorithmic leadership and the game of business
Sverre Spoelstra, Nick Butler
(2023) Academy of Management Proceedings
Paper in conference proceedingWhat is the point of method sections?
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2023) Organization, 30 p.1266-1272
ArticleMedia Review: Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification : Living in the Age of Gamification
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2023) Organization Studies, 44 p.1021-1024
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)Leadership and the stings of command
Sverre Spoelstra
(2022) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 22 p.156-171
ArticleThe (not so) new corporation
Sverre Spoelstra, Monika Müller
(2022) Organization, 29 p.1146 - 1149
Review articleTheory's best practice
Sverre Spoelstra
(2021) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 21
ArticleMeasures of faith : Science and belief in leadership studies
Sverre Spoelstra, Nick Butler, Helen Delaney
(2021) Journal of Management Inquiry, 30 p.300-311
ArticleCoronavirus has put scientists in the frame alongside politicians – and poses questions about leadership
Sverre Spoelstra
(2020) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleAcademics at play : Why the “publication game” is more than a metaphor
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2020) Management Learning, 51 p.414-430
ArticleThe truths and falsehoods of post-truth leaders
Sverre Spoelstra
(2020) Leadership, 16 p.757-764
ArticleBeyond measure
Nick Butler, Helen Delaney, Emilie Hesselbo, Sverre Spoelstra
(2020) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 20 p.1-16
Debate/Note/EditorialSant och falsk från ledare i postsanningens tid
Sverre Spoelstra
(2020) Organisation & Samhälle
Specialist publication articleDonald Trump’s war on facts is the latest play in a long-established tradition to create a post-truth reality
Sverre Spoelstra
(2019) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleBlack Friday svärtar ned företagen
Jens Rennstam, Sverre Spoelstra
(2018) Dagens Samhälle
Newspaper articleAcademics at play : Why the “publication game” is more than a metaphor
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2018)
Paper, not in proceedingRisky business : Reflections on critical performativity in practice
Nick Butler, Helen Delaney, Sverre Spoelstra
(2018) Organization, 25 p.428-445
ArticleThe dark side of management : Gerard Hanlon in dialogue with ephemera
Gerard Hanlon, Stephen Dunne, Christian Garmann Johnson, Stevphen Shukaitis, Sverre Spoelstra, et al.
(2017) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 17 p.175-188
Debate/Note/EditorialA note on notes : On the rise of ‘special sections’ in academic journals
Sverre Spoelstra
(2017) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 17 p.609
Debate/Note/EditorialHow to become less excellent
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2017) The Corporatization of the Business School: Minerva Meets the Market , p.74-91
Book chapterThe Gray Zone : Questionable Research Practices in the Business School
Nick Butler, Helen Delaney, Sverre Spoelstra
(2017) Academy of Management Learning & Education, 16 p.94-109
ArticleJeffrey Pfeffer, Leadership BS : Fixing workplaces and careers one truth at a time
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2017) Leadership, 13 p.252-254
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)Book Review : In search of organizational acrobats
Sverre Spoelstra
(2016) Organization, 23 p.308-310
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)Critical performativity: the happy end of critical management studies?
Sverre Spoelstra, Peter Svensson
(2016) Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies
Book chapterRobert Cooper: Beyond organization (2nd version)
Sverre Spoelstra
(2016) For Robert Cooper: Collected works , p.14-32
Book chapterNever let an academic crisis go to waste: Leadership Studies in the wake of journal retractions
Sverre Spoelstra, Nick Butler, Helen Delaney
(2016) Leadership, 12 p.383-397
ArticleLeadership and religion
Sverre Spoelstra
(2016) Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting , p.319-331
Book chapterProblematizing ‘relevance’ in the business school: the case of leadership studies
Nick Butler, Helen Delaney, Sverre Spoelstra
(2015) British Journal of Management, 26 p.731-744
ArticleThe dark arts of academia – and why journals must do more to tackle the problem
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2015) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleHow the REF’s regime of excellence is changing research for the worse
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2015) The Conversation
Specialist publication articleWork as God’s playtime? The ethics of organizational play
Bent Meier Sørensen, Sverre Spoelstra
(2015) Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organization
Book chapterTransformational leadership: secularized theology?
Helen Delaney, Sverre Spoelstra
(2015) Leadership: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Book chapterThe Regime of Excellence and the Erosion of Ethos in Critical Management Studies
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2014) British Journal of Management, 25 p.538-550
ArticleIs leadership a visible phenomenon? On the (im)possibility of studying leadership
Sverre Spoelstra
(2013) International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 7 p.174-188
ArticleGiving notice to employability
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Peter Watt, Stefan Tramer, Sverre Spoelstra
(2013) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 13 p.701-716
ArticleProfaning the sacred in leadership studies: a reading of Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase
Martyna Sliwa, Sverre Spoelstra, Bent Meier Sorensen, Christopher Land
(2013) Organization, 20 p.860-880
ArticleLeadership studies: out of business
Sverre Spoelstra
(2013) Critical Perspectives on Leadership: Emotion, Toxicity and Dysfunction
Book chapterGiving notice to employability
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya
(2013) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 13
Special Issue (editor)Faith
Bent M. Sørensen, Sverre Spoelstra
(2013) Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics
Book chapterRoundtable: Free work
Jana Costas, Susanne Ekman, Christian Maravelias, Sverre Spoelstra
(2013) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 13 p.11-31
Debate/Note/EditorialFree work
Armin Beverungen, Birke Otto, Sverre Spoelstra, Kate Kenny
(2013) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 13 p.1-9
Debate/Note/EditorialPlay at work: continuation, intervention and usurpation
Bent M. Sorensen, Sverre Spoelstra
(2012) Organization, 19 p.81-97
ArticleA Wild Sheep Chase: Haruki Murakami
Chris Land, Martyna Sliwa, Sverre Spoelstra
(2012) Fictional Leaders: Heroes, Villains and Absent Friends , p.139-154
Book chapterThe atmosphere business
Steffen Bohm, Anna-Maria Murtola, Sverre Spoelstra
(2012) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 12 p.1-11
Debate/Note/EditorialTheology and organization
Bent Meier Sorensen, Sverre Spoelstra, Heather Hoepfl, Simon Critchley
(2012) Organization, 19 p.267-279
Debate/Note/EditorialWonders without wounds: on singularity, museum and organization
Ruud Kaulingfreks, Sverre Spoelstra, Rene Ten Bos
(2011) Management and Organizational History, 6 p.311-327
ArticleLeadership
Sverre Spoelstra, Rene Ten Bos
(2011) Continental Philosophy and Business Ethics
Book chapterWork, play and boredom
Nick Butler, Lena Olaison, Martyna Sliwa, Bent Meier Sørensen, Sverre Spoelstra
(2011) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 11 p.329-335
Debate/Note/EditorialRoundtable: Management of self-management
Pia Bramming, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Dan Kärreman, Charlotta Levay, Michael Pedersen, et al.
(2011) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 11 p.212-224
Debate/Note/EditorialThe excellent institution
Peter Svensson, Sverre Spoelstra, Michael Pedersen, Stephanie Schreven
(2010) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 10 p.1-6
Debate/Note/EditorialThe leader as gardener: Leadership as the facilitation of growth
Tony Huzzard, Sverre Spoelstra
(2010) Metaphors we lead by: Leadership in the real world
Book chapterOrganizational brilliance: On blinding visions in organizations
Sverre Spoelstra
(2009) Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22 p.373-385
ArticleAlternatively
Stephanie Schreven, Sverre Spoelstra, Peter Svensson
(2008) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 8 p.129-136
Debate/Note/EditorialSymptoms of organization
Anders Raastrup Kristensen, Michael Pedersen, Sverre Spoelstra
(2008) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 8 p.1
Debate/Note/EditorialMarginal Competencies
Sverre Spoelstra, Tony O Shea, Ruud Kaulingfreks
(2007) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 7 p.282-286
Debate/Note/EditorialWhat is philosophy of organization?
Sverre Spoelstra
(2007) Philosophy and Organization , p.55-67
Book chapterFoucault on Philosophy and Self-management
Sverre Spoelstra
(2007) Organization, 14 p.299-303
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)Robert Cooper: Beyond Organization
Sverre Spoelstra
(2005) Contemporary Organization Theory , p.106-119
Book chapterNo Critique
Steffen Bohm, Sverre Spoelstra
(2004) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 4 p.94-100
Debate/Note/Editorial