Sverre Spoelstra | CBS - Copenhagen Business School

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Presentation

My research interests include leadership, organizational philosophy, the relation between work and play, theological motifs in management thinking, and academic work. I am currently working on two main projects: 1) a sociological study of gamification and digital management in high performance organizations and 2) a philosophical exploration of the relation between leading and commanding. I am the author of Leadership and Organization: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2018), and Associate Editor of the journal Organization.

Primary research areas

Leadership
Organizational Philosophy
Work and play
Academic work

Social media

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www.cbs.dk/en/staff/svspmpp

Courses

Ledelsesfilosofi
Lederskabet under forandring og dets indvirkning på organisatorisk adfærd

Supervision

I enjoy supervising on bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral level

Other teaching activities

PhD supervision at Lund University, Sweden

Selected publications

Spoelstra, S. (2021) ‘Theory’s best practice’, ephemera, 21(4): 163-179.
Spoelstra, S., N. Butler and H. Delaney (2021) ‘Measures of faith: Science and belief in leadership studies’ Journal of Management Inquiry 30(3): 300-311.
Butler, N. and S. Spoelstra (2020) ‘Academics at play: Why the “publication game” is more than a metaphor’, Management Learning, 51(4): 414-430.
Spoelstra, S. (2020) ‘The truths and falsehoods of post-truth leaders’, Leadership, 16(6), 757-764.
Spoelstra, S. (2018) Leadership and Organization: A philosophical Introduction. London: Routledge.

Publications sorted by:

2023

Nick Butler; Sverre Spoelstra / Living in the Age of Gamification
In: Organization Studies, 31.1.2023

Book review > peer review

Nick Butler; Sverre Spoelstra / “You just Earned 10 Points!” : Gaming and Grinding in Academia.
In: Organization, 6.1.2023

Journal article > peer review

2022

Nick Butler; Sverre Spoelstra / Flow as an Ideology : Against Flow: Video Games and the Flowing Subject, by Braxton Soderman.
In: Organization, 27.7.2022

Book review

Sverre Spoelstra / Leadership and the Stings of Command
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2022, p. 155-172

Journal article > peer review

Sverre Spoelstra; Monika Müller / The (not so) New Corporation
In: Organization, Vol. 29, No. 6, 11.2022, p. 1146-1149

Review article > peer review

Helen Delaney; Sverre Spoelstra / Transformational Leadership : Secularized Theology?.
In: Leadership: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. . ed. /Brigid Carroll; Jackie Ford; Scott Taylor. London : SAGE Publications 2022, p. 75-93

Book chapter > peer review

2021

Sverre Spoelstra; Nick Butler; Helen Delaney / Measures of Faith : Science and Belief in Leadership Studies.
In: Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 30, No. 3, 7.2021, p. 300-311

Journal article > peer review

Sverre Spoelstra / Theory's Best Practice
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 21, No. 4, 12.2021, p. 163-179

Journal article > peer review

2020

Nick Butler; Sverre Spoelstra / Academics at Play : Why the "Publication Game" is More than a Metaphor.
In: Management Learning, Vol. 51, No. 4, 9.2020, p. 414-430

Journal article > peer review

Sverre Spoelstra / The Truths and Falsehoods of Post-Truth Leaders
In: Leadership, Vol. 16, No. 6, 12.2020, p. 757-764

Journal article > peer review

2019

Sverre Spoelstra / The Paradigm of the Charismatic Leader
In: Leadership, Vol. 15, No. 6, 12.2019, p. 744-749

Journal article > peer review

2018

Sverre Spoelstra / Leadership and Organization : A Philosophical Introduction.
Abingdon : Routledge 2018, 148 p.

Book > peer review

Nick Butler; Helen Delaney; Sverre Spoelstra / Risky Business : Reflections on Critical Performativity in Practice.
In: Organization, Vol. 25, No. 3, 5.2018, p. 428-445

Journal article > peer review

2017

Nick Butler; Sverre Spoelstra / How to Become Less Excellent
In: The Corporatization of the Business School: Minerva Meets the Market. . ed. /Tony Huzzard; Mats Benner; Dan Kärreman. : Taylor & Francis 2017

Book chapter > peer review

Gerard Hanlon; Stephen Dunne; Christian Garmann Johnsen; Stevphen Shukaitis; Sverre Spoelstra; Konstantin Stoborod; Kenneth Weir / The Dark Side of Management : Gerard Hanlon in Dialogue with Ephemera.
In: Ephemera, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2017, p. 175-188

Comment/debate

Nick Butler; Helen Delaney; Sverre Spoelstra / The Gray Zone : Questionable Research Practices in the Business School.
In: Academy of Management Learning and Education, Vol. 16, No. 1, 3.2017, p. 94-109

Journal article > peer review

2016

Sverre Spoelstra / Leadership and Religion
In: The Routledge Companion to Leadership. ed. /John Storey; Jean Hartley; Jean-Louis Denis; Paul 't Hart; David Ulrich. Abingdon : Routledge 2016, p. 319-331

Book chapter > peer review

Sverre Spoelstra; Nick Butler; Helen Delaney / Never Let an Academic Crisis Go to Waste : Leadership Studies in the Wake of Journal Retractions.
In: Leadership, Vol. 12, No. 4, 9.2016, p. 383-397

Journal article > peer review

Sverre Spoelstra / You Must Change Your Life
In: Organization, Vol. 23, No. 2, 3.2016, p. 308-310

Book review > peer review

2015

Sverre Spoelstra; Peter Svensson / Critical Performativity : The Happy End of Critical Management Studies?.
In: The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. ed. /Anshuman Prasad; Pushkala Prasad; Albert Mills; Jean Helms Mills. Abingdon : Routledge 2015, p. 69-79

Book chapter > peer review

2015

Nick Butler; Helen Delaney; Sverre Spoelstra / Problematizing 'Relevance' in the Business School : The Case of Leadership Studies.
In: British Journal of Management, Vol. 26, No. 4, 10.2015, p. 731-744

Journal article > peer review

2014

Nick Butler; Sverre Spoelstra / The Regime of Excellence and the Erosion of Ethos in Critical Management Studies
In: British Journal of Management, Vol. 25, No. 3, 7.2014, p. 538-550

Journal article > peer review

2013

Chris Land; Martyna Śliwa; Sverre Spoelstra / A Wild Sheep Chase : Haruki Murakami.
In: Fictional Leaders: Heroes, Villans and Absent Friends. . ed. /Jonathan Gosling; Peter Villiers. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2013, p. 139-154

Book chapter > peer review

Bent Meier Sørensen; Sverre Spoelstra / Faith
In: Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics . ed. /Christoph Luetge. Dordrect : Springer Science+Business Media 2013, p. 517-525

Book chapter > peer review

Sverre Spoelstra / Leadership Studies : Out of Business.
In: Critical Perspectives on Leadership: Emotion, Toxicity, and Dysfunction. . ed. /Jeanette Lemmergaard; Sara Louise Muhr. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2013, p. 171-182 (New Horizons in Leadership Studies series)

Book chapter > peer review

Martyna Sliwa; Sverre Spoelstra; Bent Meier Sørensen; Christopher Land / Profaning the Sacred in Leadership Studies : A Reading of Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase.
In: Organization, Vol. 20, No. 6, 11.2013, p. 860-880

Journal article > peer review

Jana Costas; Susanne Ekman; Christian Maravelias; Sverre Spoelstra / Roundtable : Free work.
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2013, p. 11-31

Comment/debate > peer review

2012

Bent Meier Sørensen; Sverre Spoelstra / Play at Work : Continuation, Intervention and Usurpation.
In: Organization, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2012, p. 81-97

Journal article > peer review

Bent Meier Sørensen; Sverre Spoelstra; Heather Höpfl; Simon Critchley / Theology and Organization
In: Organization, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2012, p. 267-279

Journal article > peer review

Nick Butler; Sverre Spoelstra / Your Excellency
In: Organization, Vol. 19, No. 6, 2012, p. 891-903

Journal article > peer review

2011

Pia Bramming; Marius Gudmand-Høyer; Dan Kärreman; Charlotta Levay; Michael Pedersen; Sverre Raffnsøe; Jens Rennestam; André Spicer; Sverre Spoelstra / Management of Self-Management
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2011, p. 212-224

Comment/debate > peer review

Ruud Kaulingfreks; Sverre Spoelstra; René Bos / Wonders without Wounds : On Singularity, Museum and Organisation.
In: Management and Organizational History, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2011, p. 311-327

Journal article > peer review

Nick Butler; Lena Olaison; Martyna Sliwa; Bent Meier Sørensen; Sverre Spoelstra / Work, Play and Boredom
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2011, 7 p., p. 329-335

Editorial > peer review

2010

Sverre Spoelstra / Business Miracles
In: Culture and Organization, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2010, p. 87-101

Journal article > peer review

Tony Huzzard; Sverre Spoelstra / Leaders as Gardeners : Leadership through Facilitating Growth.
In: Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World. . ed. /Mats Alvesson; André Spicer. Abingdon : Routledge 2010, p. 76-95

Book chapter > peer review

Bent Meier Sørensen; Sverre Spoelstra / Play and Work : Continuation, Intervention, Usurpation.
Paper presented at Work, Play and Boredom, 2010

Paper

Peter Svensson; Sverre Spoelstra; Michael Pedersen; Stephanie Schreven / The Excellent Institution
In: Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2010, 6 p., p. 1-6

Editorial > peer review

Stephen Dunne; Sverre Spoelstra / The Gift of Leadership
In: Philosophy Today, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2010, p. 66-77

Journal article > peer review

2009

Sverre Spoelstra / Organizational Brilliance : On Blinding Visions in Organizations.
In: Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2009, p. 373-385

Journal article > peer review

Sverre Spoelstra / Transformational Leadership : Scientific Concept or Management Concept?.
Paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2009, 2009

Paper > peer review

2008

Anders Raastrup Kristensen; Michael Pedersen; Sverre Spoelstra / Symptoms of Organization
In: Ephemera. Theory and Politics in Organization, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2008, 6 p., p. 1-6

Editorial > peer review

2007

Sverre Spoelstra / The Hermeneutics of the Subject : Lectures at the College de France 1981-1982, Michel Foucault.
In: Organization, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2007, p. 299-303

Book review > peer review

Sverre Spoelstra / What Is Organization?
Lund : Lund Business Press 2007, 186 p.

PhD thesis

Sverre Spoelstra / What is Philosophy of Organization?
In: Philosophy and Organization. ed. /Campbell Jones; René ten Bos. Abingdon : Routledge 2007, p. 55-67

Book chapter > peer review

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