Sverre Spoelstra
Professor
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
Video games at work? It sounds fun, but there are ethical risks
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) The Conversation
Journal article“You just Earned 10 Points!” : Gaming and Grinding in Academia
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) Organization, 31 p.720-730
Journal articleTaking credit for stupidity: On being a student in the performative university
Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) Management Learning, 55 p.641-653
Journal articleRedemption Through Play? Exploring the Ethics of Workplace Gamification
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2024) Journal of Business Ethics, 193 p.259-270
Journal 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
ReviewWhat is the point of method sections?
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2023) Organization, 30 p.1266-1272
Journal articleAlgorithmic leadership and the game of business
Sverre Spoelstra, Nick Butler
(2023) Academy of Management Proceedings, 2023
Conference paperThe (not so) new corporation
Sverre Spoelstra, Monika Müller
(2022) Organization, 29 p.1146-1149
Journal article reviewLeadership and the stings of command
Sverre Spoelstra
(2022) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 22 p.156-171
Journal articleMeasures of faith : Science and belief in leadership studies
Sverre Spoelstra, Nick Butler, Helen Delaney
(2021) Journal of Management Inquiry, 30 p.300-311
Journal articleTheory's best practice
Sverre Spoelstra
(2021) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 21
Journal articleThe truths and falsehoods of post-truth leaders
Sverre Spoelstra
(2020) Leadership, 16 p.757-764
Journal articleCoronavirus has put scientists in the frame alongside politicians – and poses questions about leadership
Sverre Spoelstra
(2020) The Conversation
Journal articleAcademics at play : Why the “publication game” is more than a metaphor
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2020) Management Learning, 51 p.414-430
Journal articleBeyond measure
Nick Butler, Helen Delaney, Emilie Hesselbo, Sverre Spoelstra
(2020) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 20 p.1-16
Journal article (comment)Sant och falsk från ledare i postsanningens tid
Sverre Spoelstra
(2020) Organisation & Samhälle
Journal 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
Journal articleThe paradigm of the charismatic leader
Sverre Spoelstra
(2019) Leadership, 15 p.744-749
Journal articleBlack Friday svärtar ned företagen
Jens Rennstam, Sverre Spoelstra
(2018) Dagens Samhälle
Newspaper articleRisky business : Reflections on critical performativity in practice
Nick Butler, Helen Delaney, Sverre Spoelstra
(2018) Organization, 25 p.428-445
Journal articleAcademics at play : Why the “publication game” is more than a metaphor
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2018)
Conference paperHow 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
Journal articleJeffrey Pfeffer, Leadership BS : Fixing workplaces and careers one truth at a time
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2017) Leadership, 13 p.252-254
ReviewThe 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
Journal article (comment)A note on notes : On the rise of ‘special sections’ in academic journals
Sverre Spoelstra
(2017) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 17 p.609-609
Journal article (comment)Never 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
Journal articleCritical 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 chapterBook Review : In search of organizational acrobats
Sverre Spoelstra
(2016) Organization, 23 p.308-310
ReviewLeadership and religion
Sverre Spoelstra
(2016) Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting , p.319-331
Book chapterHow the REF’s regime of excellence is changing research for the worse
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2015) The Conversation
Journal articleThe dark arts of academia – and why journals must do more to tackle the problem
Nick Butler, Sverre Spoelstra
(2015) The Conversation
Journal articleProblematizing ‘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
Journal articleTransformational leadership: secularized theology?
Helen Delaney, Sverre Spoelstra
(2015) Leadership: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Book chapterWork as God’s playtime? The ethics of organizational play
Bent Meier Sørensen, Sverre Spoelstra
(2015) Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organization
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
Journal articleGiving notice to employability
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya
(2013) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 13
Editor for a journalProfaning 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
Journal 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
Journal articleGiving notice to employability
Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Peter Watt, Stefan Tramer, Sverre Spoelstra
(2013) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 13 p.701-716
Journal articleFaith
Bent M. Sørensen, Sverre Spoelstra
(2013) Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics
Book chapterLeadership studies: out of business
Sverre Spoelstra
(2013) Critical Perspectives on Leadership: Emotion, Toxicity and Dysfunction
Book chapterRoundtable: Free work
Jana Costas, Susanne Ekman, Christian Maravelias, Sverre Spoelstra
(2013) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 13 p.11-31
Journal article (comment)Free work
Armin Beverungen, Birke Otto, Sverre Spoelstra, Kate Kenny
(2013) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 13 p.1-9
Journal article (comment)Play at work: continuation, intervention and usurpation
Bent M. Sorensen, Sverre Spoelstra
(2012) Organization, 19 p.81-97
Journal 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
Journal article (comment)Theology and organization
Bent Meier Sorensen, Sverre Spoelstra, Heather Hoepfl, Simon Critchley
(2012) Organization, 19 p.267-279
Journal article (comment)Wonders without wounds: on singularity, museum and organization
Ruud Kaulingfreks, Sverre Spoelstra, Rene Ten Bos
(2011) Management and Organizational History, 6 p.311-327
Journal 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
Journal article (comment)Roundtable: 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
Journal article (comment)The Gift of Leadership
Stephen Dunne, Sverre Spoelstra
(2010) Philosophy Today, 54 p.66-77
Journal articleThe leader as gardener: Leadership as the facilitation of growth
Tony Huzzard, Sverre Spoelstra
(2010) Metaphors we lead by: Leadership in the real world
Book chapterThe excellent institution
Peter Svensson, Sverre Spoelstra, Michael Pedersen, Stephanie Schreven
(2010) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 10 p.1-6
Journal article (comment)Organizational brilliance: On blinding visions in organizations
Sverre Spoelstra
(2009) Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22 p.373-385
Journal articleSymptoms of organization
Anders Raastrup Kristensen, Michael Pedersen, Sverre Spoelstra
(2008) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 8 p.1-1
Journal article (comment)Alternatively
Stephanie Schreven, Sverre Spoelstra, Peter Svensson
(2008) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 8 p.129-136
Journal article (comment)What is philosophy of organization?
Sverre Spoelstra
(2007) Philosophy and Organization , p.55-67
Book chapterMarginal Competencies
Sverre Spoelstra, Tony O Shea, Ruud Kaulingfreks
(2007) Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 7 p.282-286
Journal article (comment)Foucault on Philosophy and Self-management
Sverre Spoelstra
(2007) Organization, 14 p.299-303
ReviewRobert 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
Journal article (comment)