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Emil André Røyrvik

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Emil André Røyrvik

Professor
Department of Sociology and Political Science

emil.royrvik@ntnu.no
+4773550366 Bygg 9, 9553, Dragvoll
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About

Based broadly in sociocultural anthropology and sociology my research focuses on ethnography and theorizing in the context of critical political economy, especially capitalism as a socioecological system (including financialization, extraction, disposession and "polycrisis"), organizational, managerial and expert cultures, money and measurement, and economic and cultural globalization. I have developed collaborative, experimental and multimodal ethnography through various practices and perspectives, and I am currently engaged in critical and arts-based approaches on social possibilities and alternative socioecological trajectories and futures. Some of my publications include the co-edited collection Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis (with Tord Larsen, 2017) and the monograph The Allure of Capitalism: An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis (published with Berghahn Books). The Allure book won SINTEF’s award for excellence in research.  

Competencies

  • Anthropological theory
  • Anthropology
  • Anthropology of technology
  • Economical Anthropology
  • Political anthropology
  • Semiotic anthropology
  • Social Organisation
  • Sociology
  • Sociology of economics
  • Sociology of organizations
  • economic sociology
  • political economy

Research

I am engaged in several research projects, including the following.

  • PACESETTERS, EU-project
  • Democracy Lab
  • Team Democratic resilience and resistance, NTNU Community
  • Cryptology and social life
  • International project on ethnography and multimodality
  • Ethnography of alternativity and possibility in the age of polycrisis

Coordinator of interdisciplinary research group Ethnography

«Ethnography» is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to supporting ethnographic practice, theory, methods and genres across a broad range of research interests, topics, and projects.

Democracy Lab

Democracy Lab (delab) with the Dept. computer science, NTNU

Pacesetters

Member of interdisciplinary project Pacesetters

Publications

  • Chronological
  • By category
  • All publications registered in NVA

2026

  • Brodersen, Marianne Blom; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2026) Menneskelighet i mørke tider – Marinaleda 1979–2025.
    Academic chapter

2025

  • Schneider, Florian; Sanden, Mari; Røyrvik, Emil André; Lockwood, Joseph. (2025) En diálogo y transición: [PACESETTERS] En un momento en el que múltiples urgencias sacuden viejas certezas, es hora de mirar hacia afuera y establecer nuevos lazos | Periférica Internacional. Revista para el análisis de la cultura y el territorio. Periférica Internacional. Revista Para El análisis De La Cultura Y El Territorio
    Academic article
  • Møgster, Trine Olsen; Røyrvik, Emil André; Vike, Halvard; Fyhn, Håkon. (2025) City-making on layers of land. An Anthropology of Land and Property at Fornebu. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Doctoral thesis
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Life in the Head Office: Material Metaphors of Management.
    Academic chapter
  • Meltvedt, Ingvill Elvestad; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Den åpne modus: Barnevernsreformen fra idé til innføring. Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift
    Academic article

2024

  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Gjerland, Daniel. (2024) Båten og havet – en performance med musikk, samtale og innspill fra publikum om prefigurativ politikk og antikapitalisme.
    Performing arts
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2024) Apocalypse and its alternatives. EASA newsletter
    Commentary

2023

  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2023) Traveling, translation, transformation: On social responsibility and the Nordic model in China.
    Academic chapter

2022

  • Forseth, Ulla; Røyrvik, Emil André; Clegg, Stewart Roger. (2022) Naturalizing, normalizing and neutralizing: metaphors framing the global financial crisis in Nordic banks. Culture and Organization
    Academic article

2021

  • Leiulfsrud, Håkon; Sohlberg, Peter Anders; Swedberg, Richard; Hjellbrekke, Johs.; Scott, John; Ahrne, Göran; Hasse, Raimund; Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum; Widerberg, Karin Ingrid. (2021) Constructing Social Research Objects: Constructivism in Research Practice. De Gruyter Brill
    Non-fiction monograph
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) Broken promises and lost qualities: Constructing management as a research object in sociology and anthropology.
    Academic chapter
  • Brodersen, Marianne Blom; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) The stable stranger: Constructing “the Roma” within the European neoliberal culture complex. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) Sacralizing finance, sacrificing society.
    Academic chapter

2020

  • Henningsen, Erik; Røyrvik, Emil André; Krause-Jensen, Jakob. (2020) Management and morality. An ethnographic exploration of management consultancy seminars. Berghahn Books
    Academic monograph
  • Smeby, Gunnar; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2020) Bitt av reformbasillen: Organisatoriske myter og administrativ ekspansjon i nærpolitireformens etablering av fellestjenester. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS)
    Academic article

2019

  • Forseth, Ulla; Clegg, Stewart; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2019) Reactivity and Resistance to Evaluation Devices. Valuation Studies
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2019) Kulturbegrepet og representasjonskrisen. [The Concept of Culture and the Crisis of Representation]. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift
    Academic article

2018

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2018) The Measure of Sociality: Quantification, Control and Economic Deviance.
    Academic chapter

2017

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Sosialitet i målstyringens tid.
    Academic chapter
  • Larsen, Tord; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Introduksjon.
    Introduction in anthology
  • Larsen, Tord; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis. Scandinavian Academic Press
    Anthology

2016

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2016) SEC enacting organizational culture.
    Academic chapter

2015

  • Forseth, Ulla; Røyrvik, Emil André; Clegg, Stewart. (2015) Brave New World? The global financial crisis’ impact on Scandinavian banking’s sales rhetoric and practices. Scandinavian Journal of Management
    Academic article
  • Aspen, Harald; Ravn, Malin Noem; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2015) Forord.
    Introduction in anthology
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Ravn, Malin Noem. (2015) Det skapende mennesket.
    Academic chapter
  • Aspen, Harald; Ravn, Malin Noem; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2015) Det skapende mennesket : Antropologiske dialoger om tegn, ting og tolkning. Scandinavian Academic Press
    Anthology

2014

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2014) Economy of Words. Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks, by Douglas R. Holmes. American Ethnologist
    Book review

2013

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) "Oblique Ethnography: Engaging collaborative complicity among globalised corporate managers".
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) "Incarnation Inc. Managing Corporate Values.". Journal of business anthropology
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) Consensus and Controversy: The Debate on Man-Made Global Warming. SINTEF AS
    Research report
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) Consensus and Controversy: The Debate on Man-Made Global Warming ; A24071. SINTEF AS
    Research report

2012

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Ethnography of globalization.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Brodersen, Marianne Blom. (2012) Real Virtuality: Power and Simulation in the Age of Neoliberal Crisis. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research
    Academic article

2011

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) The Allure of Capitalism — An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis. Berghahn Books
    Academic monograph

2010

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2010) The Sociality of Securitization: Symbolic Weapons of Mass Deception. Intergraph: Journal of Dialogic Anthropology
    Academic article

2009

  • Moe, Nils Brede; Dingsøyr, Torgeir; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2009) Putting Agile Teamwork to the Test – An Preliminary Instrument for Empirically Assessing and Improving Agile Software Development.
    Academic chapter

2008

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2008) Directors of Creation: An Anthropology of Capitalist Conjunctures in the Contemporary. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Doctoral thesis
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2008) Lettmetall og ledelse i Midtens rike.
    Academic chapter

2007

  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Kostopoulos, Kristina. (2007) "Det er strengt tatt ikke vår jobb." Individuelle realiteter og handlingsvalg i søken etter mening blant ansatte i hjemmesykepleien. Sosialantropologisk institutt, NTNU
    Master thesis

2006

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Ekstreme synspunkt. Dagbladet
    Commentary
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Søderlinds Sludder. Morgenbladet
    Commentary
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) 9/11 og retoriske avsporinger. Minerva (Oslo)
    Popular science article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Et globalt bedrag? 11. september i kritisk lys. www.samtiden.no
    Popular science article

2005

  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Dingsøyr, Torgeir. (2005) Practical Tool Use in a Software Consulting Company. Communications of the ACM
    Academic article

2004

  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth. (2004) Integrative Visualisation and Knowledge Enabled Value Creation: An activity-based approach to intellectual capital. Journal of Intellectual Capital
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth. (2004) Transformative visualisation and emergent capabilities: experiences and insights gained from an activity-based view of intellectual capital. International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital
    Academic article
  • Bygdås, Arne Lindseth; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2004) Knowledge Hyperstories and Context-Sensitive Knowledge Enabling.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Wulff, E.. (2004) Dancing the Dilemmas: the 'Mythological' Enabling of Collective Action.
    Academic chapter
  • Bygdås, Arne Lindseth; Røyrvik, Emil André; Gjerde, B.; Raabe, H.. (2004) Transformative visualisation and emergent capabilities: experiences and insights gained from an activity-based view of intellectual capital. International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Utvalgt.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Dancing the Dilemmas: the Mythological Enabling of Collective Action.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth. (2004) Knowledge Hyperstories: The Use of ICT Enhanced Storytelling in Organizations.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth. (2004) The China Experience. SINTEF AS
    Research report

2003

  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2003) Lotto er ikke lykken. Gemini
    Popular science article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2003) Manisk måling. Gemini
    Popular science article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2003) Knowledge Hyperstories and Context Sensitive Knowledge Enabling: The Use of Situated Support Systems in Distributed Organisational Environments. International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management
    Academic article

2002

  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2002) Skumringskunnskap. Flux (Oslo)
    Popular science article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2002) Mythmaking and Knowledge Sharing. Creativity and Innovation Management
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2002) Mythmaking and Knowledge Sharing. Living organizational myths and the broadening of opportunity structures for knowledge sharing in a Scandinavian engineering consultant company. Creativity and Innovation Management
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2002) Læringshistorier.
    Academic chapter

2001

  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2001) Baphomet. Metronom
    Popular science article
  • Hatling, Morten Arnt; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2001) Læringshistorier - en praktisk gjennomgang.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2001) Myter og mytemakere. Mytens plass i organisasjonslivet.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2001) Myter og Mytemakere. Mytenes plass i organisasjonslivet.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Hatling, Morten. (2001) Læringshistorier: en praktisk gjennomgang.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2001) Fabel-forum. Innføring i en metode for historiesamling.
    Academic chapter

2000

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2000) London Calling. En reiserefleksjon. SINTEF-report
    Research report
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2000) Svermeriske organisasjoner: Strategi i komplekse landskap. SINTEF-report
    Research report

1999

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (1999) Knowledge management memetics. SINTEF-report
    Research report
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (1999) Mellom Sjetnemarka og Cyberspace. Kunnskapsbedrifter som glokale nettverk?. SINTEF-report
    Research report

1998

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (1998) Towards a political ecology of mind: On sterotypes and Gypsies in Bulgaria. Universitetet i Trondheim
    Master thesis

Journal publications

  • Schneider, Florian; Sanden, Mari; Røyrvik, Emil André; Lockwood, Joseph. (2025) En diálogo y transición: [PACESETTERS] En un momento en el que múltiples urgencias sacuden viejas certezas, es hora de mirar hacia afuera y establecer nuevos lazos | Periférica Internacional. Revista para el análisis de la cultura y el territorio. Periférica Internacional. Revista Para El análisis De La Cultura Y El Territorio
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2024) Apocalypse and its alternatives. EASA newsletter
    Commentary
  • Meltvedt, Ingvill Elvestad; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Den åpne modus: Barnevernsreformen fra idé til innføring. Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth. (2004) Integrative Visualisation and Knowledge Enabled Value Creation: An activity-based approach to intellectual capital. Journal of Intellectual Capital
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Dingsøyr, Torgeir. (2005) Practical Tool Use in a Software Consulting Company. Communications of the ACM
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth. (2004) Transformative visualisation and emergent capabilities: experiences and insights gained from an activity-based view of intellectual capital. International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital
    Academic article
  • Bygdås, Arne Lindseth; Røyrvik, Emil André; Gjerde, B.; Raabe, H.. (2004) Transformative visualisation and emergent capabilities: experiences and insights gained from an activity-based view of intellectual capital. International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2002) Skumringskunnskap. Flux (Oslo)
    Popular science article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2003) Lotto er ikke lykken. Gemini
    Popular science article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2001) Baphomet. Metronom
    Popular science article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2003) Manisk måling. Gemini
    Popular science article
  • Smeby, Gunnar; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2020) Bitt av reformbasillen: Organisatoriske myter og administrativ ekspansjon i nærpolitireformens etablering av fellestjenester. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS)
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2002) Mythmaking and Knowledge Sharing. Creativity and Innovation Management
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) "Incarnation Inc. Managing Corporate Values.". Journal of business anthropology
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Ekstreme synspunkt. Dagbladet
    Commentary
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2003) Knowledge Hyperstories and Context Sensitive Knowledge Enabling: The Use of Situated Support Systems in Distributed Organisational Environments. International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2002) Mythmaking and Knowledge Sharing. Living organizational myths and the broadening of opportunity structures for knowledge sharing in a Scandinavian engineering consultant company. Creativity and Innovation Management
    Academic article
  • Forseth, Ulla; Røyrvik, Emil André; Clegg, Stewart. (2015) Brave New World? The global financial crisis’ impact on Scandinavian banking’s sales rhetoric and practices. Scandinavian Journal of Management
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Søderlinds Sludder. Morgenbladet
    Commentary
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) 9/11 og retoriske avsporinger. Minerva (Oslo)
    Popular science article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Brodersen, Marianne Blom. (2012) Real Virtuality: Power and Simulation in the Age of Neoliberal Crisis. Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2010) The Sociality of Securitization: Symbolic Weapons of Mass Deception. Intergraph: Journal of Dialogic Anthropology
    Academic article
  • Forseth, Ulla; Røyrvik, Emil André; Clegg, Stewart Roger. (2022) Naturalizing, normalizing and neutralizing: metaphors framing the global financial crisis in Nordic banks. Culture and Organization
    Academic article
  • Brodersen, Marianne Blom; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) The stable stranger: Constructing “the Roma” within the European neoliberal culture complex. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
    Academic article
  • Forseth, Ulla; Clegg, Stewart; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2019) Reactivity and Resistance to Evaluation Devices. Valuation Studies
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Et globalt bedrag? 11. september i kritisk lys. www.samtiden.no
    Popular science article
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2019) Kulturbegrepet og representasjonskrisen. [The Concept of Culture and the Crisis of Representation]. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2014) Economy of Words. Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks, by Douglas R. Holmes. American Ethnologist
    Book review

Artistic productions

  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Gjerland, Daniel. (2024) Båten og havet – en performance med musikk, samtale og innspill fra publikum om prefigurativ politikk og antikapitalisme.
    Performing arts

Books

  • Henningsen, Erik; Røyrvik, Emil André; Krause-Jensen, Jakob. (2020) Management and morality. An ethnographic exploration of management consultancy seminars. Berghahn Books
    Academic monograph
  • Leiulfsrud, Håkon; Sohlberg, Peter Anders; Swedberg, Richard; Hjellbrekke, Johs.; Scott, John; Ahrne, Göran; Hasse, Raimund; Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum; Widerberg, Karin Ingrid. (2021) Constructing Social Research Objects: Constructivism in Research Practice. De Gruyter Brill
    Non-fiction monograph
  • Larsen, Tord; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Trangen til å telle. Objektivering, måling og standardisering som samfunnspraksis. Scandinavian Academic Press
    Anthology
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) The Allure of Capitalism — An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis. Berghahn Books
    Academic monograph
  • Aspen, Harald; Ravn, Malin Noem; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2015) Det skapende mennesket : Antropologiske dialoger om tegn, ting og tolkning. Scandinavian Academic Press
    Anthology

Part of book/report

  • Brodersen, Marianne Blom; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2026) Menneskelighet i mørke tider – Marinaleda 1979–2025.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Life in the Head Office: Material Metaphors of Management.
    Academic chapter
  • Bygdås, Arne Lindseth; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2004) Knowledge Hyperstories and Context-Sensitive Knowledge Enabling.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Wulff, E.. (2004) Dancing the Dilemmas: the 'Mythological' Enabling of Collective Action.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Sosialitet i målstyringens tid.
    Academic chapter
  • Moe, Nils Brede; Dingsøyr, Torgeir; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2009) Putting Agile Teamwork to the Test – An Preliminary Instrument for Empirically Assessing and Improving Agile Software Development.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Ethnography of globalization.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Utvalgt.
    Academic chapter
  • Hatling, Morten Arnt; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2001) Læringshistorier - en praktisk gjennomgang.
    Academic chapter
  • Larsen, Tord; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Introduksjon.
    Introduction in anthology
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Dancing the Dilemmas: the Mythological Enabling of Collective Action.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth. (2004) Knowledge Hyperstories: The Use of ICT Enhanced Storytelling in Organizations.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2001) Myter og mytemakere. Mytens plass i organisasjonslivet.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) "Oblique Ethnography: Engaging collaborative complicity among globalised corporate managers".
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) Broken promises and lost qualities: Constructing management as a research object in sociology and anthropology.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2018) The Measure of Sociality: Quantification, Control and Economic Deviance.
    Academic chapter
  • Aspen, Harald; Ravn, Malin Noem; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2015) Forord.
    Introduction in anthology
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Ravn, Malin Noem. (2015) Det skapende mennesket.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2001) Myter og Mytemakere. Mytenes plass i organisasjonslivet.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2002) Læringshistorier.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2023) Traveling, translation, transformation: On social responsibility and the Nordic model in China.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Hatling, Morten. (2001) Læringshistorier: en praktisk gjennomgang.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2001) Fabel-forum. Innføring i en metode for historiesamling.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2008) Lettmetall og ledelse i Midtens rike.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2016) SEC enacting organizational culture.
    Academic chapter
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) Sacralizing finance, sacrificing society.
    Academic chapter

Report

  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) Consensus and Controversy: The Debate on Man-Made Global Warming. SINTEF AS
    Research report
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) Consensus and Controversy: The Debate on Man-Made Global Warming ; A24071. SINTEF AS
    Research report
  • Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth. (2004) The China Experience. SINTEF AS
    Research report
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (1999) Knowledge management memetics. SINTEF-report
    Research report
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2000) London Calling. En reiserefleksjon. SINTEF-report
    Research report
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2000) Svermeriske organisasjoner: Strategi i komplekse landskap. SINTEF-report
    Research report
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (1999) Mellom Sjetnemarka og Cyberspace. Kunnskapsbedrifter som glokale nettverk?. SINTEF-report
    Research report

Student thesis or dissertation

  • Møgster, Trine Olsen; Røyrvik, Emil André; Vike, Halvard; Fyhn, Håkon. (2025) City-making on layers of land. An Anthropology of Land and Property at Fornebu. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Doctoral thesis
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (2008) Directors of Creation: An Anthropology of Capitalist Conjunctures in the Contemporary. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Doctoral thesis
  • Røyrvik, Emil André; Kostopoulos, Kristina. (2007) "Det er strengt tatt ikke vår jobb." Individuelle realiteter og handlingsvalg i søken etter mening blant ansatte i hjemmesykepleien. Sosialantropologisk institutt, NTNU
    Master thesis
  • Røyrvik, Emil André. (1998) Towards a political ecology of mind: On sterotypes and Gypsies in Bulgaria. Universitetet i Trondheim
    Master thesis

Teaching

Courses

  • SOS6509 - Democratic Innovation Management and Sustainable Organizational Development
  • SOS6901 - Organization and Leadership, Master Thesis

Outreach

2025

  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Value and value propositions. Value propositions
  • Other presentation
    Silde, Tjerand; De Moor, Katrien; Røyrvik, Emil André; Almklov, Petter Grytten. (2025) Cryptology and social life. Cryptology and social life
  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Multimodality: Affordances and constraints. Multimodal ethnography: Research, Pedagogy, and Politics
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Transformative communaling through interactional art and resistance. Communal interaction: Second Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Microsociological Network
  • Other presentation
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Welcome to the real world!. Pacesetters Transformation Summit
  • Other presentation
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Creative case studies in dialogue. Pacesetters Transformation Summit
  • Other presentation
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) What are instruments good for? Inverting instrumentality. Pacesetters Transformation Summit
  • Other presentation
    Røyrvik, Emil André; Monteiro, Eric. (2025) Democracy: Yay or nay? -ISFiT, Samfundet.no. Democracy: Yay or nay?
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Telletrang og telletvang fra renessansen til KI. Analysedagen 2025
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André; Monteiro, Eric. (2025) En vei ut av søvngjengeriet | Klassekampen.
  • Feature article
    Meltvedt, Ingvill Elvestad; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Barnevernsreformen 2022: Utfordringer og gap mellom intensjon og praksis.
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Er nyliberalismen omsider død? | Klassekampen.
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2025) Siste fase i Gaza?.

2024

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André; Brodersen, Marianne Blom. (2024) "Encuentros de Arte": En kunstfestival som totemtisk transformasjon av samfunnet. Etnografi og festival-workshop
  • Lecture
    Solbu, Gisle; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Kotzakoulakis, Konstantinos; Piarulli, Stefani; Crosman, Kate; Xue, Jin; Sahakian, Marlyne; Smith, Tone; Raina, Rajeswari S.; Korsnes, Marius. (2024) Webinars for post-growth futures 2024-2025. Webinar-series, Geminicentre for Post-Growth Futures and Post Consumption Citizenship
  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2024) The rise and fall of growth. Post-capitalist alternatives and possibilities. Postgrowth Webinar Series
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2024) Universitetets svanesang.

2023

  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2023) Retten og makten til å utføre drap.
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2023) Når fred blir fiende.
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2023) Trøbbel i og med eksistensen: relasjonsproblemet. Norsk Antropologisk Forening årskonferanse
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2023) Kunnskapssamfunnets resistens mot kunnskap. Neon konferansen
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2023) Organizing like an anarchist. NEON conference

2022

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2022) Apocalypse and/or organizational metamorphosis. International Conference of Organizational Sociology (ICOS)
  • Other presentation
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2022) Ethnography in/of transition: Plotting the future in the New European Bauhaus. Workshop
  • Other presentation
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2022) A traveling model in translation. On the run with the “Nordic supermodel” in China. Academic Colloquium
  • Other presentation
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2022) Poetics and practices of collaborative, interventionist, and inventive ethnography. Seminar

2021

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2021) The casino and society: Eurovegas and the dirty money complex. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2021) McKinsey-stalinisme i akademia.

2020

  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2020) "McKinsey-stalinismen": det nyliberale universitetet. Nyliberalisme og universitetet
  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2020) Demokrati, klima, kapital. Antropologidagene

2019

  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Rasmussen, Bente. (2019) Toppstyrte NTNU - hvor ble det av kollegiet?.

2018

  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2018) Trump i Trøndelag.
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2018) Material metaphors of management: a moral vocabulary of organizational bodies and buildings. Vinterseminaret, sosiologisk årskonferanse
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2018) The cultural logic of management by objectives. Autonomy, authoritarianism and the proletarianization of professional work in the context of the Nordic model. Nordic Work Life Conference
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2018) Og tallet er 23. Når virkeligheten formes etter tallene.
  • Contribution to radio or TV
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2018) Å sette karakterer.

2017

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2017) Sanctifying money, (un)making capitalism. 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA)
  • Conference lecture
    Forseth, Ulla; Røyrvik, Emil André; Clegg, Stewart. (2017) A Fabled Time: Metaphors and Symbols Framing the Global Financial Crisis. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

2014

  • Conference lecture
    Forseth, Ulla; Clegg, Stewart R.; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2014) "The Moment of Truth" - Valuation devices to promote customer orientation and "right selling" in finance. Internasjonal konferanse
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2014) Cultures of calculation and the spirit of speculation. Instituttseminar

2013

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) Eurovegas and commensuration of value/s. Standardisation workshop
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) Eurovegas: Konseptuell kloning i kasinokapitalismens tid. Norsk Antropologisk Forenings Årskonferanse
  • Interview
    Fiske, Robin; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2013) "Slik har vi det om 15 år - teknologien som vil forandre livet ditt".
  • Conference lecture
    Forseth, Ulla; Røyrvik, Emil André; Clegg, Stewart Roger; Clegg, Stewart Roger. (2013) Heroes and Villains in Bankers' Narratives After the Global Financial Crisis. 29th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

2012

  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) ”Kan vi snakke om den grunne generasjon? Teknologi og erkjennelse i nettsamfunnet.”. Rotary
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Measuring, Managing and Manoeuvering in Opaque Money Markets. Objectification, Measurement and Standardization
  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) "Kultur og samspill: Ledelse av og i mangfold.”. Lederutviklingsprogram
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) The Edge of Ethnography: Engaging ’collaborative complicity’ at the boundaries of the corporation. EASA conference
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) From industrial management to money management. Corporate Norway and the disruption of democratic capitalism. STS-meeting
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) The ’Stock Options Carnival’. NAF-SANT conference
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) 'Managementality' and the displacement of democratic capitalism in Norway. 4S/EASST conference
  • Conference lecture
    Brodersen, Marianne Blom; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Strangers in strange lands - creating the European Roma within the neoliberal culture complex. 2012 AAA Annual Meeting
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Industriell ledelse, organisasjon og finansialisering. Forelesning
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Når halen logrer med hunden: Industri og ledelse i superfinansialiseringens tid. Rådsmøtet SINTEF Teknologi og Samfunn
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) The globalized contexts of human resource management. Forelesning
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Når halen logrer med hunden: Industri og ledelse i superfinansialiseringens tid. SINTEF Rådsmøte
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Den norske modellen i Kina. Forelesning
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) Cross-cultural management and knowledge regimes. Forelesning
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2012) The Allure of Capitalism – Method and Theory. CUNY Seminar

2011

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) “Is there such a thing as a neoliberal sociality? Adventures in the post-moral economy”. American Anthropologist Association Annual Meeting
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) Cross-cultural management. Gjesteforelesning
  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) "Den grunne generasjon? Om erkjennelse og teknologi blant native born netizens". Oppstartsseminar nye antropologistudenter
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) Asia-Kina: Noen sveip over et enormt lerret. Gjesteforelesning
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) Oblique Ethnography. Mobile collaborative complicity among corporate managers. Work and migration
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) 'State Crimes Against Democracy' (SCAD) som analytisk rammeverk. 'Vi skal snu på alle steinene'-eit år etterpå (Treholt-saken)
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2011) International and cultural contexts of HRM. Gjesteforelesning

2010

  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2010) Terrorfrykt og –beven.
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2010) Real Virtuality and Conspiracy as Explanation. Instituttseminar
  • Interview
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2010) Den konservative skiidretten.
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2010) Mobilizing and Materializing "Real Virtuality". American Anthropological Association 109th Annual Meeting

2009

  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2009) Kunnskap om krise.
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2009) Agile anthropology. A communicative model of agile culture. Konferanse
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André; Torvatn, Hans Yngvar; Dingsøyr, Torgeir. (2009) Tidstyveri, hyperbyråkrati og smidig samfunnsutvikling.
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2009) Agile anthropology. A communicative model of agile culture. Smidig Utvikling
  • Conference lecture
    Moe, Nils Brede; Dingsøyr, Torgeir; Røyrvik, Emil André. (2009) Putting Agile Teamwork to the Test. A Preliminary Instrument for Empirically Assessing and Improving Agile Software Development. XP 2009

2008

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2008) Is there such a ting as a neoliberal sociality?. Prøveforelesning
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2008) Kasinokulturen. Kollapsen in den globale finansøkonomien var et varslet mord.

2007

  • Contribution to radio or TV
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2007) Om vitenskapsmannen Kristian Birkeland.
  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2007) 9/11 and the "culture of fear". Protestfestivalen

2006

  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Mange veier til Rom: Strategier for internasjonalisering. Bedriftseminaret Innovasjon 2006 - IMIL
  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Kildekode, Cash og Kultur - open source software som sosialt fenomen. Open source programvare - Dugnad i den digitale allmenningen
  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Sorte hull, store smell og smarte trekk - Illusjoner og nytenkning i ledelse av store, komplekse prosjekter. Kunne Kaviar
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Troops, Tropes and Troubles – Rendering corporate management a privileged ethnographic object. EGOS conference
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Fortrylling og fortrolling - Fortelling som metode i en aksjonsorientert antropologi. Årskonferansen i norsk antropologisk forening
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Fortrylling og fortrolling - Fortelling som metode i en aksjonsorientert antropologi. Årskonferansen i Norsk antropologisk forening
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) 11. september i kritisk lys.
  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) Organisasjonsantropologi som oppdragsforskning. Participation in practice (PiP)
  • Interview
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2006) 11. september intervju.

2005

  • Interview
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2005) Deler kunnskap med eventyr.
  • Conference poster
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2005) Technology Transitions: Knowledge Transformations in a Cross-Cultural Industrial Business Case. Globalization, identity, standardization
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2005) Fanden eller frelser.
  • Feature article
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2005) Samlokalisering – er det svaret?.

2004

  • Lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth; Bjørkeng, Kjersti. (2004) Doing Contract-based Action Research: Experiences and Examples. ICAN Seminar
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth; Bjørkeng, Kjersti. (2004) Living Knowledge in KUNNE. CAN Research Center
  • Interview
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Management Majeure.
  • Interview
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Ufornuften vil seire.
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Counting Culture: Hybri(d)s in the garden of cross-cultural management. at the 19th workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management
  • Interview
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) BNP (Bare Noe Pølsevev).
  • Interview
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Hilsen Helsen.
  • Interview
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Shop till you drop.
  • Interview
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2004) Nei til nyvinning.

2003

  • Contribution to radio or TV
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Hatling, Morten. (2003) Moderne myter.

2002

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2002) Stories of storytelling in organizations. MBA Lecture
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2002) Fortellingens fortrylling. Ledersamling i olje og gassforedling
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André; Wulff, Egil. (2002) Mythmaking and Knowledge Sharing. Living organizational myths and the broadening of opport. EURAM 2002
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2002) On SINTEF, KoS and KUNNE projects and activities. For University of St.Gallen, Inst. of Information management & Knowledge Source
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2002) Project trajectories: project principles, acquisition, ownership and involvement, phases and complex project understanding. For University of St.Gallen, Inst. of Information management & Knowledge Source
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2002) Fortellingen som metode i kunnskapsarbeid. .
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth. (2002) Knowledge Hyperstories. The Use of ICT Enhanced Storytelling in Organizations. Third European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning, and Capabilities – OKLC
  • Interview
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2002) Fra Scheherezades divan.
  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre; Bjørkeng, Kjersti; Bygdås, Arne Lindseth. (2002) (Un)Touchable Wisdom. Hysterical hyperactivity, paradox power and the battle of the un-real. The 18th Colloquium, The European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

2001

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (2001) The Internal of External: The preliminary learning hyper-story from the EU-project EXTERNAL. .

2000

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil Andre. (2000) The Knowing Vortex. Mytho-Logical Organisational Memetics. Complexity and complex systems in industry

1997

  • Conference lecture
    Røyrvik, Emil André. (1997) "Feeling at home - being at home. Gypsies as bordercrossers". The Nordic Conference: "The Anthropology of Post-Communism II"

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