Alf Rehn

As any academic, I mostly write things such as articles and book-chapters. I also edit books and journal-issues, but I've decided not to bore you with the full details. Neither have I included much forthcoming stuff. A sampling of my writings:

Articles (a selection)

Rehn, Alf (2008), “
Pop (Culture) Goes the Organization: On Highbrow, Lowbrow and Hybrids in Studying Popular Culture Within Organization Studies”, Organization, 15(5): 765–783.

Rehn, Alf (2008), “
On Meta-Ideology and Moralization – Prolegomena To a Critique of Management Studies”, Organization, 15(4): 598–609.

Görling, Stefan & Rehn, Alf (2008), "
Accidental Ventures — A Materialist Reading of opportunity and Entrepreneurial Potential", Scandinavian Journal of Management, 24(2), 94-102.

Rehn, Alf & Taalas, Saara (forthcoming), "
On Wittgenstein and Management At Rest — Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Problems", Philosophy of Management. (The reason I put this up here is simple. Even though I have the letter of acceptance, and a promise of publication, the journal seems somewhat erratic in publication. So I publish it here as well, waiting for the day it might come out...)

Lindahl, Marcus & Rehn, Alf (2007), "
Towards a Theory of Project Failure", International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2(3), 246-254.

Rehn, Alf, Strannegård, Lars & Tryggestad, Kjell (2007), "
Editorial: Putting Process Through Its Paces", Scandinavian Journal of Management, 23(3)

de Cock, Christian, Fleming, Peter & Rehn, Alf (2007), "
Editorial: Organizing Revolution?", Management & Organizational History, 2(2), 107-114.

Rehn, Alf & O'Doherty, Damian (2007), "
Organization – On the Theory and Practice of Excess", Culture and Organization, 13(2), 99-113.

Sköld, David & Rehn, Alf (2007), "
Makin' It, by Keeping It Real – Street Talk, Rap Music, and the Forgotten Entrepreneurship From "the 'Hood"", Group and Organization Management, 32(1), 50-78.

Rehn, Alf (2006), "
On the Economy of Research – Gifts, contributions, and commodities in organization studies", Finnish Journal of Business Economics, 55(4), 457-468.

Rehn, Alf & Vachhani, Sheena (2006), "
Innovation and the Post-Original: On Moral Stances and Reproduction", Creativity and Innovation Management, 15(3), 310-322.

Rehn, Alf (2006), “
Anachronism and Innovation – A case of hybrid economies in the early 19th century”, Management & Organizational History, 1(1), 71-86.

Rehn, Alf (2005), “Organization, Hollow”, ephemera – theory and politics in organization, 5(3), 448-449 [12 min, 46 sec].

Rehn, Alf & Borgerson, Janet (2005), “Is There a Cannibal in Organization Studies? Notes on anthropophagy and organization (recipe included)”, Culture and Organization, 11(2), 69–81.

Rehn, Alf & Sköld, David (2005), “‘I Love The Dough’ – Rap lyrics as a minor economic literature”, Culture and Organization, 11(1), 17-31.

Borgerson, Janet & Rehn, Alf (2004), “
General Economy and Productive Dualisms”, Gender, Work and Organization, 11(4), 455-47.

Rehn, Alf & Taalas, Saara (2004), “‘Znakomstva I Svyazi’ (Acquaintances and connections) – Blat, the Soviet Union, and mundane entrepreneurship”, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 16(3), 235-250.

Rehn, Alf (2004), “The Politics of Contraband – The honor economies of the warez scene”, Journal of Socio-Economics, 33(3), 359-374.

Rehn, Alf (2002), “
Pretty Ugly – Notes on the moral economy of method”, ephemera, 2(1), 43-52.


Book-chapters (a rather incomplete list)

Rehn, Alf (2008), “
Wittgenstein’s iPod, or, the Familiar Among Us”, in Wittkower, D. (ed.): iPod and Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court.

Rehn, Alf & De Cock, Christian (2008), “
Deconstructing Creativity”, in Rickards, T., Runco, M. & Moger, S. (ed.): The Routledge Companion to Creativity. London: Routledge.

Rehn, Alf, Lindahl, Marcus & Gustafsson, Claes (2008), "
Innovationens självklarhet, nyhetens behag, och problemet med båda", in Ur startblocken, "Svensk innovationskraft II". Stockholm: Forum for Innovation Management.

Rehn, Alf (2008), "
Marx’s Laughter – Frivolity and Economic Reason", in Rehn, A. & Lindahl, M. (eds.): Feelings and Business – Essays in Honor of Claes Gustafsson. Stockholm: Santérus.

Rehn, Alf & Lindahl, Marcus (2008), "
The Uncanny Organization Man Superhero Myths and Contemporary Management Discourse", in Kostera, M. (ed.): Organizational Olympians. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Taalas, Saara & Rehn, Alf (2007), "
Tekijänoikeus ja jälkiteollisen talouden omistamisen murros" (Copyright and the Changing Nature of Ownership in the Post-Industrial Economy), in Mylly, T., Lavapuro, J. & Karo, M. (eds): Tekemisen vapaus. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Rehn, Alf & Sköld, David (2005), “
Från plånboksaritmetik till börsrasrysare” (Economic Language as an Entertainment Commodity), in Rombach, B. & Johansson, P. (eds.): Den framgångsrika ekonomiskan. Stockholm: Santerus Förlag.

Rehn, Alf & Taalas, Saara (2004), “Of Crime and Assumptions in Entrepreneurship”, in Hjorth, D. & Steyaert, C. (eds.):
Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Rehn, Alf (2003), “Det tråkiga ledarskapet – kring vardaglighet i management och ledarskapsforskning” (Boring Leadership – On mundaneity in management and leadership research), in Ericsson, D. (ed.): Det o(av)sedda ledarskapet. Lund: Academia Adacta.

Rehn, Alf (2003), “Quick and Dirty”, in Strannegård, L. (ed.): Avhandlingen – om att formas till forskare. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Rehn, Alf (2002), “
Time and Management as a Morality Tale”, in Adam, B., Whipp, R. & Sabelis, I. (ed.): Making Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press.