My name is Alf Rehn, and
I'm a biblioholic. I love books. I love watching them,
touching them, reading them, buying them and so on. I
also enjoy writing them, from time to time. Here are some
of my books and longer essays:
Börjesson, Mats & Rehn, Alf (2009), Makt. Malmö: Liber.
Together with my friend, the brilliant sociologist Mats Börjesson, we wrote this introduction (in Swedish) to the study of power in modern societies. It is the first book in a series that Mats & I are editing for Liber, and was a fun project. People who have read it have tended to like it.
Rehn, Alf (2008), För företagsekonomin / Business, Rehnt ut sagt. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur.
A double-book, where one part is the older book “Vad är företagsekonomi?” and the newer a short and sweet book on business success. Or something.
Rehn, Alf (2007), Vad är företagsekonomi? Stockholm: Natur och Kultur.
I really liked this project. The book is written as both an introduction to the field and as a commentary on it, a critical opening of sorts.
Kärreman, Dan & Rehn, Alf (eds.) (2007), Organisation – teorier om ordning och oording. Malmö: Liber.
An anthology on modern organization theory I co-edited, with chapters written by some of the most interesting young organizational theorists in Scandinavia today.
Rehn, Alf (2006), The Scholar’s Progress – Essays on academic life and survival. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2006.
Part of my "Alternative Publishing"-project and something I'm kinda proud of. It consists of essays I've written on the academic life, partly as a guide to young scholars, partly as an attempt to analyze this strange business. (Earlier, you had to buy this. Now, it’s a free download!)
Rehn, Alf (2006), Gåvan idag – altruismen och en moderna ekonomin (The Gift, Today – Altruism and the modern economy). Stockholm: Pink Machine Books, 2006.
A short book on gift economies, with a discussion on how alternative views can be of help when trying to understand contemporary economies. It represents a continuation of my fascination with the gift and the issue of altruism.
Rehn, Alf (2006), Företagsekonomin och “la trahison des clercs” (Business Studies and the Treason of the Intellectuals). Stockholm: Pink Machine Books, 2006.
An essay in Swedish I wrote for the Pink Machine Books-project. A book I feel strongly about, as it basically is me railing against the problems in the field I somehow represent. A cynical little book.
Rehn, Alf (2004), The Serious Unreal – Notes on business and frivolity. Åbo: Dvalin Books, 2004.
Quite possibly my own favorite of everything I've written. Very short, something I wrote when I was setting up Dvalin (an experiment in publishing), but still the best portrayal of my research interests. It's fun (at least I think so) and it's free. Read it.
Rehn, Alf (2004), Resan, jobbet och metafysiken – projektledning och tidens problem (Travel, Toil and Metaphysics – Project management and the problem of time). Stockholm: Arvinius Förlag, 2004.
A strange one, this. Growing out of another project, this is a combination of time studies, a critical examination of project management and project theory, and an ethnography of sorts. In Swedish, and beautifully designed.
Dymek, Mikolaj & Rehn, Alf (2003), Polygonmakarna – spelbranschens högteknologiska upplevelseekonomi (The Polygon Makers – The gaming industry as a high-tech experience economy). Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology.
A book in Swedish I wrote with my student Miko Dymek on the computer games industry. When we wrote it, there were very few such books out, and there still are. We wanted to take the industry seriously, as a business, without forgetting the fun and frivolity that was underlying it all. It has been used as teaching material and even as required reading for an entrance exam to a master's program.
Rehn, Alf (2001), Electronic Potlatch – A study on new technologies and primitive economic behaviors. Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology.
This was my PhD-thesis, and obviously I'm quite fond of it. Looking back, there are things I would have done differently, but I still like this book. I had a chance to do a developed version for a US publisher, but sadly missed out on this (did other things, the project started feeling old, stuff like that).
Börjesson, Mats & Rehn, Alf (2009), Makt. Malmö: Liber.
Together with my friend, the brilliant sociologist Mats Börjesson, we wrote this introduction (in Swedish) to the study of power in modern societies. It is the first book in a series that Mats & I are editing for Liber, and was a fun project. People who have read it have tended to like it.
Rehn, Alf (2008), För företagsekonomin / Business, Rehnt ut sagt. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur.
A double-book, where one part is the older book “Vad är företagsekonomi?” and the newer a short and sweet book on business success. Or something.
Rehn, Alf (2007), Vad är företagsekonomi? Stockholm: Natur och Kultur.
I really liked this project. The book is written as both an introduction to the field and as a commentary on it, a critical opening of sorts.
Kärreman, Dan & Rehn, Alf (eds.) (2007), Organisation – teorier om ordning och oording. Malmö: Liber.
An anthology on modern organization theory I co-edited, with chapters written by some of the most interesting young organizational theorists in Scandinavia today.
Rehn, Alf (2006), The Scholar’s Progress – Essays on academic life and survival. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2006.
Part of my "Alternative Publishing"-project and something I'm kinda proud of. It consists of essays I've written on the academic life, partly as a guide to young scholars, partly as an attempt to analyze this strange business. (Earlier, you had to buy this. Now, it’s a free download!)
Rehn, Alf (2006), Gåvan idag – altruismen och en moderna ekonomin (The Gift, Today – Altruism and the modern economy). Stockholm: Pink Machine Books, 2006.
A short book on gift economies, with a discussion on how alternative views can be of help when trying to understand contemporary economies. It represents a continuation of my fascination with the gift and the issue of altruism.
Rehn, Alf (2006), Företagsekonomin och “la trahison des clercs” (Business Studies and the Treason of the Intellectuals). Stockholm: Pink Machine Books, 2006.
An essay in Swedish I wrote for the Pink Machine Books-project. A book I feel strongly about, as it basically is me railing against the problems in the field I somehow represent. A cynical little book.
Rehn, Alf (2004), The Serious Unreal – Notes on business and frivolity. Åbo: Dvalin Books, 2004.
Quite possibly my own favorite of everything I've written. Very short, something I wrote when I was setting up Dvalin (an experiment in publishing), but still the best portrayal of my research interests. It's fun (at least I think so) and it's free. Read it.
Rehn, Alf (2004), Resan, jobbet och metafysiken – projektledning och tidens problem (Travel, Toil and Metaphysics – Project management and the problem of time). Stockholm: Arvinius Förlag, 2004.
A strange one, this. Growing out of another project, this is a combination of time studies, a critical examination of project management and project theory, and an ethnography of sorts. In Swedish, and beautifully designed.
Dymek, Mikolaj & Rehn, Alf (2003), Polygonmakarna – spelbranschens högteknologiska upplevelseekonomi (The Polygon Makers – The gaming industry as a high-tech experience economy). Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology.
A book in Swedish I wrote with my student Miko Dymek on the computer games industry. When we wrote it, there were very few such books out, and there still are. We wanted to take the industry seriously, as a business, without forgetting the fun and frivolity that was underlying it all. It has been used as teaching material and even as required reading for an entrance exam to a master's program.
Rehn, Alf (2001), Electronic Potlatch – A study on new technologies and primitive economic behaviors. Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology.
This was my PhD-thesis, and obviously I'm quite fond of it. Looking back, there are things I would have done differently, but I still like this book. I had a chance to do a developed version for a US publisher, but sadly missed out on this (did other things, the project started feeling old, stuff like that).