Although I have always been affiliated to Business Administration departments, I started out as an organizational anthropologist of sorts. I did my Ph D on the topic of the organizational culture in a Swedish evening newspaper. My research since has focused on topics like critical management studies, knowledge work, identity in organizations, leadership, organizational control, innovation and research methodology. I have previously held positions at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden -– were I still am affiliated –- and the School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University. I am on the editorial board for Organization and Organization Studies. My work has been published in Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Organization, Organization Science, and Organization Studies, among others.

Bergström, O, H. Hasselbladh & D. Kärreman: Organizing disciplinary power in a knowledge organization, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Forthcoming

Kärreman, D. & M. Alvesson: Resisting resistance: the construction of compliance in a consultancy firm. Human Relations, Forthcoming

Spicer, A., M. Alvesson & D. Kärreman: Critical Performativity: The Unfinished Business of Critical Management Studies. Human Relations Forthcoming

Kärreman, D. & A. Rylander. Managing meaning through branding: the case of a consulting firm. Organization Studies 29, 2008, 103-125

Alvesson, M & Kärreman, D: Constructing mystery: empirical matters in theory development. Academy of Management Review 32, 2007, 1265-1281.

Alvesson, M & Kärreman, D: Unraveling HRM: identity, ceremony, and control in a Management Consultancy Firm. Organization Science 18, 2007, 711-723.

Kärreman, D, M. Alvesson & R. Wenglén The charismatization of routines: – management of meaning and standardization in an educational organization. Scandinavian Journal of Management 22 . 2006. 330-351

Alvesson, M. & D. Kärreman: Interfaces of control. Technocratic and socio-ideological control in a global management consultancy firm. Accounting, Organization & Society 29, 2004, 423-444.

Kärreman, D. & M. Alvesson Cages in tandem: management control, social identity, and identification in a knowledge-intensive firm. Organization 11, 2004, 149-175.

Kärreman, D., S. Sveningsson & M. Alvesson: The return of the machine bureaucracy? – Management control and knowledge work. International Studies of Management and Organizations 32:2, 2002, 70-92.

Alvesson, M., D. Kärreman & J. Swan: Departures from knowledge and/or management in knowledge management Management Communication Quarterly 16, 2002, 282-291.

Alvesson M. & D. Kärreman Odd Couple. Coming to terms with knowledge management. Journal of Management Studies, 38, 2001, 995-1018.

Kärreman, D. & M. Alvesson: Making newsmakers. Conversational identity at work. Organization Studies 22, 2001, 59-89.

Alvesson, M. & D. Kärreman Varieties of discourse. On the study of organizations through discourse analysis. Human Relations 53, 2000 (9): 1125-1149.

Alvesson, M. & D. Kärreman Taking the linguistic turn in organizational research: challenges, responses, consequences. Journal of Applied Behavioural Science 36, 2000, (2): 134-156.