Hervé Corvellec
I was born in France, but I have been living in Sweden since 1985. I am a professor of Business Administration at the Department of Service Management and Service Studies, Campus Helsingborg, Lund University.
My fields of research and teaching are organization theory, and I have been working for a long time with infrastructure issues, for example public libraries, railroad planning, wind power siting, risk in public transportation. For the last ten years or so I have focused on the production and management of waste. In particular, I have been heading the research projects From waste management to waste prevention (FORMAS) and Organizing Critical Infrastructure Services – The case of waste management (VINNOVA). I have been an associated editor for Waste Management, and I sit on the editorial board of Detritus. I also sit on the editorial board of the Scandinavian Journal of Management. In the recent years I have published about waste in journals with management (e.g., Accounting Organization and Society, International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, Marketing Theory, Organization), social-anthropology (Journal of Material Culture), geography (Environment and Planning), environment studies (Journal of Cleaner Production), and engineering (Waste Management, Waste Management & Research).
I proceed most often, but not exclusively, through the analysis of texts and discourses, with special preference for inscription, narrative and argumentation analysis.
"Circular economy is just another growth model" – Hervé Corvellec on degrowth
Publications
Retrieved from Lund University's publications database
Publications
- 2020
- Att förebygga verksamhetsavfall
(2020) Re:Source
Report - Förord
(2020) Cirkulära materialflöden i praktiken : Tolv tillämpningar på små och stora företag
Preface - Introduction to the special issue on the contested realities of the circular economy
(2020) Culture and Organization
Journal article (comment) - Putting Circular Ambitions into Action : The Case of Accus, a Small Swedish Sign Company
(2020) Handbook of the circular economy
Book chapter - The Contested realities of the Circular Economy
(2020) Culture and Organization
Editor for a journal - Towards clean material cycles: Is there a policy conflict between circular economy and non-toxic environment?
(2020) Waste Management & Research
Journal article - Unthinking sustainability through resourcification studies
(2020)
Conference paper: abstract
- Att förebygga verksamhetsavfall
- 2019
- Heterogeneous answers to challenges raised by an heterogeneous material
(2019) Society and Business Review
Journal article (comment) - La proximité dans la gouvernance des déchets en Suède
(2019) Territoires des déchets
Book chapter - Qualification as corporate activism : How Swedish apparel retailers attach circular fashion qualities to take-back systems
(2019) Scandinavian Journal of Management
Journal article - Waste as scats: For an organizational engagement with waste.
(2019) Organization
Journal article
- Heterogeneous answers to challenges raised by an heterogeneous material
- 2018
- A decoupling perspective on circular business model implementation: Illustrations from Swedish apparel
(2018) Journal of Cleaner Production
Journal article - Acting on distances: A topology of accounting inscriptions
(2018) Accounting, Organizations and Society
Journal article - Att ta sina första steg in i den cirkulära ekonomin: Fallet Accus, skyltföretag.
(2018)
Report - Avfallsförebyggande handlar om effektiv produktion och genomtänkt konsumtion – inte om avfall. : Sju lärdomar från forskningsprojektet från avfallshantering till avfallsförebyggan
(2018)
Report - It-utrustning skrotas – helt utan reflektion
(2018) Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm
Newspaper article - Synen på avfall måste förändras för att få bukt med sopberget [Perspektiv]
(2018) Dagens Samhälle
Newspaper article - Så gör vi förebyggandet till verklighet
(2018) Avfall och Miljö
Newspaper article - Thank you : A journal is as good as its reviewers
(2018) Waste Management
Other - The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth
(2018) The Guardian
Newspaper article - Waste policies gone soft : An analysis of European and Swedish waste prevention plans
(2018) Waste Management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology
Journal article - Waste prevention is about effective production and thoughtful consumption – not about waste : Seven lessons from the research project from waste management to waste prevention
(2018)
Report - When lock-ins impede value co-creation in service
(2018) International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences
Journal article - « For the women » - In Memoriam Simone Veil (1927-2017)
(2018) Gender, Work and Organization
Journal article
- A decoupling perspective on circular business model implementation: Illustrations from Swedish apparel
- 2017
- Barbara Czarniawska : Organizational change - fashions, institutions, and translations
(2017) The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers
Book chapter - Evidencing the waste effect of Product-Service Systems (PSSs)
(2017) Journal of Cleaner Production
Journal article - Marine plastic litter on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) : Impacts and measures
(2017)
Report - Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water, by Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter, and Kane Race [Book review]
(2017) Journal of Cultural Economy
Journal article - Tre röster om utredningen [Ola Alterås SOU 2017:22 om en cirkulär ekonomi]
(2017) Avfall och Miljö
Newspaper article
- Barbara Czarniawska : Organizational change - fashions, institutions, and translations
- 2016
- A performative definition of waste prevention
(2016) Waste Management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology
Journal article - Det måste bli dyrare att producera avfall
(2016) Dagens Samhälle
Newspaper article - Därför hindras förebyggande
(2016) Avfall och Miljö
Newspaper article - Fostering the waste-responsible citizen? Bio-politics and post-political planning
(2016)
- La proximité dans la gouvernance des déchets en Suède : Un enchevêtrement de logiques
(2016) Dimensions territoriales des politiques de gestion des déchets : La construction d’un régime de proximité
Report chapter - Sustainability objects as performative definitions of sustainability: The case of food waste-based biogas and biofertilizers
(2016) Journal of Material Culture
Journal article - The Role of Valuation Practices for Risk Identification
(2016) Riskwork : Essays on the organizational life of risk management
Book chapter - Tre av fyra jobbar med förebyggande
(2016) Avfall och Miljö
Newspaper article - Unfolding the post-political waste-responsible citizen. A biopolitical approach
(2016)
Conference paper: abstract - Waste management: The Other of production, distribution, and consumption
(2016) A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies
Book chapter - Waste prevention in Sweden 2008-2015: An analysis of key waste prevention initiatives
(2016)
Report
- A performative definition of waste prevention
- 2015
- Action nets for waste prevention
(2015) Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption: Reflections on Consumer Waste
Book chapter - Dis-Ag-reement: The construction and negotiation of risk in the Swedish controversy over antibacterial silver
(2015) Journal of Risk Research
Journal article - Frikopplingstjänster – en lösning för avfallsförebyggande?
(2015)
Report - Inlåsta med avfall: Den svåra vägen mot förebyggande
(2015) 15 hållbara lösningar för framtiden
Book chapter - Narrative Approaches to Organizations
(2015) International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition)
Article in encyclopedia - Narrative for Service Research and Management
(2015) The Sage Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy
Article in encyclopedia - New directions for management and organization studies on waste
(2015) GRI-rapport
Working paper - Sustainability objects as performative definitions of sustainability: The case of food waste-based biogas and biofertilizers
(2015) GRI report-Managing the Big City
Working paper - The Topological Work of Inscription Devices
(2015)
- The role of valuation practices for risk identification
(2015) GRI report-Managing the Big City
Working paper - Tvärvetenskap – ”Nej, ers majestät, det är en revolution”
(2015) Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten i Lund – en vital 50-åring. En jubileumsskift.
Book chapter
- Action nets for waste prevention
- 2014
- "A Process Theory of Organization, T. Hernes. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2014)"
(2014) Scandinavian Journal of Management
Review - A relational theory of risk: lessons for risk communication
(2014) Effective Risk Communication
Book chapter - Book review / Recension d'ouvrage: Gibson Burrell (2013), Styles of Organizing: The Will to Form. Oxford: Oxford University Press
(2014) M@N@Gement
Review - Företagsekonomiska filmer: Girigheten från film till det verkliga livet
(2014) Organisation & Samhälle
Review - Managing the politics of value propositions
(2014) Marketing Theory
Journal article - Organiseringen av avfallstjänster för ett hållbart samhälle. En fallstudie av avfallshantering 2010-2013.
(2014)
Report - Recycling food waste into biogas, or how management transforms overflows into flows
(2014) Coping with excess: How organizations, communities and individuals manage overflows
Book chapter - Skapa förutsättningar för forskning - generiska färdigheter för doktorander
(2014)
Conference paper: abstract - “Organizations and Archetypes” by Monika Kostera (Edward Elgar, 2012)
(2014) Organization Studies
Review
- "A Process Theory of Organization, T. Hernes. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2014)"
- 2013
- Infrastructures, lock-in, and sustainable urban development: the case of waste incineration in the Goteborg Metropolitan Area
(2013) Journal of Cleaner Production
Journal article - To make a kick start together – A PhD course co-developed by librarians and professors
(2013) Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education
Conference paper: abstract - Waste management companies: Critical urban infrastructural services that design the socio-materiality of waste
(2013) Organising waste in the city: international perspectives on narratives and practices
Book chapter - Why ask what theory is?
(2013) What is theory? Answers from the social and cultural sciences.
Book chapter
- Infrastructures, lock-in, and sustainable urban development: the case of waste incineration in the Goteborg Metropolitan Area
- 2012
- Arbetsliv utan maktperspektiv
(2012) Respons
Review - Critical urban infrastructural services: How waste management companies design the socio-materiality of waste
(2012) Research in Service Studies
Working paper - Demanding Hosts and Ungrateful Guests – The Everyday Drama of Public Transportation in Three Acts and Academic Prose
(2012) Culture and Organization
Journal article - From ‘Less Landfilling’ to ‘Wasting Less’: Societal narratives, socio-materiality, and organizations
(2012) Journal of Organizational Change Management
Journal article - Narratives in and about organizations: An anthropology, a mode of inquiry and a leadership tool
(2012) in Service Studies
Working paper - Normalising excess: An ambivalent take on the recycling of food waste into biogas
(2012) Research in Service Studies
Working paper - The European Waste Hierarchy: From the Socio-materiality of Waste to a Politics of Consumption
(2012) Environment & Planning A
Journal article - The Impossibility of Corporate Ethics – For a Lévinasian Approach to Managerial Ethics
(2012) Sage Library in Business and Management: New Directions in Business Ethics
Book chapter - The Practice of Risk Governance: Lessons from the Field
(2012) Journal of Risk Research
Journal article - The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy edited by Beckert, J. & Aspers, P., Oxford University Press. (Book review)
(2012) Scandinavian Journal of Management
Review - The business model of solid waste management in Sweden – A case study of two municipally-owned companies
(2012) Waste Management & Research
Journal article - The multiple market exposure of Swedish municipally owned waste management companies
(2012) Proceedings Sardinia 2011 Thirteenth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium
Conference paper - The multiple market-exposure of waste management companies: A case study of two Swedish municipally owned companies.
(2012) Waste Management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology
Journal article
- Arbetsliv utan maktperspektiv
- 2011
- A relational theory of risk
(2011) Journal of Risk Research
Journal article - Even Beyond Humanity - A comment on “Change and Commitment: Beyond Risk and Responsibility” by Silvio Funtowicz and Roger Strand.
(2011) Journal of Risk Research
Journal article (letter) - From "A farewell to landfill" to "A farewell to wastefulness" - societal narratives, socio-materiality and organizations
(2011) Research in Service Studies
Working paper - From 'a farewell to landfill' to 'waste as resource'
(2011)
Conference paper - Konkurrenslagstiftningen hotar utvecklingen
(2011) Avfall och Miljö
Newspaper article - New Rhetoric and Organization Studies
(2011) [Host publication title missing]
Conference paper - Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca: Arguing and Organizing
(2011) On the Shoulder of Giants
Book chapter - Responsibility beyond CSR
(2011) Journal of Business Ethics
Journal article - Responsible Management
(2011)
Other - Riskhanteringsbeslut inom transportsektorn: Slutredovisning av forskningsprojektet TRANSAM 2007-2010
(2011) CEFOS rapport
Report - The business model of Swedish municipal waste management companies
(2011) Research in Service Studies
Working paper - The multiple market-exposure of Swedish municipally owned waste management companies
(2011) Proceedings of the International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium
Conference paper - The narrative structure of risk accounts
(2011) Risk Management
Journal article - The waste hierarchy model: Disassembling and reassembling the socio-materiality of waste
(2011) Research in Service Studies
Working paper
- A relational theory of risk
- 2010
- Alain de Botton: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
(2010) Organization Studies
Review - Organisational risk as it derives from what managers value: A practice-based approach to risk assessment
(2010) Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
Journal article - Plot
(2010) Servicionary
Newspaper article - Practice Theory
(2010) Servicionary
Newspaper article - Risk Assessment
(2010) Servicionary
Newspaper article - The moral responsibility of project selectors
(2010) International Journal of Project Management
Journal article
- Alain de Botton: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
- 2009
- How organisational risk derives from what managers value
(2009)
Conference paper - Marknadspriset är inte hela värdet
(2009) MIljöförbundet - Jordens vänner
Newspaper article - Mise-en-sens
(2009) Servicionary
Newspaper article - Public Transportation Hospitality- An aporia in three acts and academic prose
(2009)
Conference paper - Risk
(2009) MiHngel
Newspaper article - The moral responsibility of project managers
(2009)
Conference paper - The practice of risk management
(2009)
Conference paper - The practice of risk management: Silence is not absence
(2009) Risk Management
Journal article - The risk/no-risk rhetoric of environmental impact assessments (EIA) - The case of off-shore wind farms in Sweden
(2009)
Conference paper
- How organisational risk derives from what managers value
- 2008
- New Rhetoric and organisation studies
(2008) GRI-rapport
Report - Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
(2008) Servicionary
Newspaper article - The moral responsibility of project selectors
(2008) GRI Rapport
Report - The risk/no-risk rhetoric of environmental impact assessments (EIA): The case of off-shore wind farms in Sweden
(2008) GRI-rapport
Report
- New Rhetoric and organisation studies
- 2007
- Arguing for a license to operate: the case of the Swedish wind power industry
(2007) Corporate Communications
Journal article - Ett bra vindläge – Industrialisering och nyliberal kommersialisering av blåsiga platser
(2007) Plats som produkt : kommersialisering och paketering
Book chapter - Företagsetikens Janusansikte: Teknik och kritik
(2007) Organisation : Teorier om ordning och oordning
Book chapter - Narrative Analysis
(2007) The Principles of Knowledge Creation : Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Book chapter - Sensegiving as mise-en-sens - The case of wind power development
(2007) Scandinavian Journal of Management
Journal article - The impossibility of corporate ethics: for a Levinasian approach to managerial ethics
(2007) Business Ethics. A European Review
Journal article
- Arguing for a license to operate: the case of the Swedish wind power industry
- 2006
- Elements of Narrative Analysis
(2006) GRI-rapport
Report - Etik som teknik och som kritik
(2006) GRI-rapport
Report - Ett bra vindläge- Industrialisering och nyliberalkommersialisering av blåsiga platser
(2006) GRI-rapport
Report - For a symmetrical understanding of organizing and arguing
(2006) Society and Business Review
Journal article - Sensegiving as mise-en-sens: The case of wind power development
(2006) GRI-rapport
Report
- Elements of Narrative Analysis
- 2005
- Etablering av vindkraft i Sverige – en kartläggning av miljötillståndsprocesser 1999-2004
(2005)
Report - Organizing / Arguing:For Nuclear Power in the Name of the Environment
(2005) GRI-rapport
Report - Respekt är mötets etik
(2005) Servicemötet – Multidisciplinära öppningar
Book chapter - The Impossibility of Corporate Ethics:For a Levinasian Approach to Managerial Ethics
(2005) GRI-rapport
Report
- Etablering av vindkraft i Sverige – en kartläggning av miljötillståndsprocesser 1999-2004
- 2004
- Book review essay: The Power of Tale - Using Narrative for Organisational Success by Allan, Julie, Fairtlough Gerard & Heinzen Barbara (Chichester UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2002) and Storytelling in Organizations by Gabriel Yannis (Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press, 2000)
(2004) Scandinavian Journal of Management
Review - Mot en respektens etik för servicemötet
(2004) GRI-rapport
Report - Organisationers vardag – underifrån sett
(2004)
Book
- Book review essay: The Power of Tale - Using Narrative for Organisational Success by Allan, Julie, Fairtlough Gerard & Heinzen Barbara (Chichester UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2002) and Storytelling in Organizations by Gabriel Yannis (Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press, 2000)
- 2003
- Book review: Management Gurus and Management Fashions – A Dramastic Inquiry by Brad Jackson
(2003) Scandinavian Journal of Management
Review - Dialog: från samtal till text
(2003) Avhandlingen - om att formas till forskare
Book chapter - Narratives of Organizational Performances
(2003) Narratives We Organize By
Book chapter
- Book review: Management Gurus and Management Fashions – A Dramastic Inquiry by Brad Jackson
- 2002
- Book review: Pandemonium av Gibson Burrell
(2002) Scandinavian Journal of Management
Review - På tal om Tredje spåret vid Riddarholmen
(2002)
Book
- Book review: Pandemonium av Gibson Burrell
- 2001
- Children as Economic Subjects
(2001) Children, Economics and the EU
Book chapter - La contabilidad por partida doble como forma de representaciòn - Den dubbla bokföringen som föreställningsform
(2001) Heterogénesis: Revista de Artes Visuales
Journal article - Talks on Tracks –Debating Urban Infrastructure Projects
(2001) Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies
Journal article - The New Rhetoric of Infrastructure Projects
(2001) Organizing Metropolitan Space and Discourse
Book chapter
- Children as Economic Subjects
- 2000
- For a Narrative Criticism of Organizational Performance
(2000) GRI-rapport
Report - Talks on Tracks - Debating Urban Infrastructure Projects
(2000) GRI-rapport
Report
- For a Narrative Criticism of Organizational Performance
- 1998
- "Böckerna kan inte avslutas om inte debet är lika med kredit"—Den textuella konstruktionen av organisationer genom dubbel bokföring
(1998) Dikotomier- Vetenskapliga reflektioner
Book chapter
- "Böckerna kan inte avslutas om inte debet är lika med kredit"—Den textuella konstruktionen av organisationer genom dubbel bokföring
- 1996
- Corporate Annual Reports as Administrative Serials: The Case of Astra, a Swedish Pharmaceutical Group
(1996) Working Paper Series, Institute of Economic Research
Report - Stories of Achievements - Narrative Features of Organizational Performance
(1996) Lund Studies in Economics and Management
Dissertation
- Corporate Annual Reports as Administrative Serials: The Case of Astra, a Swedish Pharmaceutical Group
- 1995
- Sidestreams: A Personal Account of the 4th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference (also known as the 4th IPA), Hulme Hall, Manchester, England, 10-13 July 1994
(1995) European Accounting Review
Journal article (letter) - Translating Management Accounting Terms - The Case of ’Performance’
(1995) Advances in International Accounting
Journal article
- Sidestreams: A Personal Account of the 4th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference (also known as the 4th IPA), Hulme Hall, Manchester, England, 10-13 July 1994
- 1994
- Library Performance in Activity Reports
(1994) Svensk Biblioteksforskning
Journal article
- Library Performance in Activity Reports
- 1993
- La chanson de la performance - Une épopée de l’organisation
(1993) Working Paper Series, Institute of Economic Research
Report
- La chanson de la performance - Une épopée de l’organisation
- 1992
- Biblioteksprestationer sedda i ljuset av sportprestationer
(1992) Bibliotek som Serviceföretag - Kunden i Centrum
Book chapter
- Biblioteksprestationer sedda i ljuset av sportprestationer
- 1991
- Trend, Weaknesses and Perspectives of Performance Evaluation in Public Libraries
(1991) Svensk Biblioteksforskning
Journal article
- Trend, Weaknesses and Perspectives of Performance Evaluation in Public Libraries
- 1990
- Tendances, faiblesses, et perspectives de l’évaluation des performances des bibliothèques [
(1990) Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France
Journal article
- Tendances, faiblesses, et perspectives de l’évaluation des performances des bibliothèques [
- 1989
- Comparaison France Suède de l’économie du secteur du livre
(1989) Cahiers de l’économie du livre
Journal article
- Comparaison France Suède de l’économie du secteur du livre
Editor
- 2013
- 2005
- Servicemötet – multidisciplinära öppningar
(2005)
Book
- Servicemötet – multidisciplinära öppningar
