PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Articles
Garsten, Christina and Kerstin Jacobsson. Forthcoming. Post-political regulation: Illusory
consensus and hybrid forms of governance. Critical Sociology.
Garsten, Christina. Forthcoming. Book review. Flexible Firm: The design of culture at
Bang & Olufsen. Jakob Krause-Jensen. Ethnos.
Garsten, Christina. 2012. Corporate social responsibility and cultural practices in
globalizing markets. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe. Kockel, Ullrich,
Mairead Nic Craith and Jonas Frykman, eds. John Wiley & Sons.
Garsten, Christina and Kerstin Jacobsson. 2011. Transparency and legibility in
international institutions: The UN Global Compact and post-political global ethics.
Social Anthropology, 19(4): 378-393.
Garsten, Christina. 2011. Recherche qualitative dans les organisations: Éléments
méthodologiques. Le Libellio d’ AEGIS, 7(2): 1-13.
Dolan, Cahterine, Christina Garsten and Dinah Rajak, eds. 2011. Focaal, special issue on
CSR.
Garsten, Christina. 2008. Anthropology. In International Encyclopedia of Organization
Studies, Volume one, Stewart Clegg and James R. Bailey, eds. London: Sage.
Garsten, Christina and Kerstin Jacobsson. 2007. Corporate globalization, civil society and
postpolitical regulation: Whither democracy? Development Dialogue, 49:143-158.
Garsten, Christina. 2007. Mirrors of organizing: plots, anxieties, and potentialities in the
work of Henrik Ibsen. Organization Studies 28(8); 1271 - 1277.
Garsten, Christina and Anna Hasselström. 2004. Risky business: Discourses of risk and
(ir)responsibility in globalizing markets. Ethnos, 68(2): 249-270.
Garsten, Christina. 2004. The cosmopolitan organization: An essay on corporate
accountability. Global Networks, 3 (3): 355-370.
Garsten, Christina and Miriam Salzer Mörling. 2004. Introduktion: Jakten på identiteter.
Nordiske Organisasjonsstudier, 2. Special issue on Identity, Christina Garsten and
Miriam Salzer Mörling, eds.
Garsten, Christina and Chris Grey. 2001. Trust, control and post-bureaucracy.
Organization Studies, 22(2): 229-250.
Garsten, Christina. 2001. Play at work: Contested frames of hacking. Focaal, 37: 89-101.
Garsten, Christina. 2001. Korsdrag: Socialantropologi i blandade akademiska miljöer
[Cross-winds: Social anthropology in interdisciplinary academic environments].
Antropologiska Studier, 68-69: 7-13.
Garsten, Christina. 2001. Book review: Janet Finn: Tracing the veins: Of copper, culture,
and community from Butte to Chuquicamata. Gender, Work & Organization, 8(3): 356358.
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Garsten, Christina. 1999. “Betwixt and between: Temporary employees as liminal
subjects in flexible organizations.” Organization Studies, 20(4): 601-617.
Garsten, Christina and Chris Grey. 1997. How to become oneself. Discourses of
subjectivity in postbureaucratic organizations. Organization, 4(2): 211-228.
Garsten, Christina. 1995. Book review. Ulf Mellström, Engineering Lives Technology,
Time and Space in a Male-Centred World. Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv, 1(2).
Books
Garsten, Christina and Anette Nyqvist, eds. Forthcoming. Organisational Anthropology:
Doing Ethnography In and Among Complex Organisations. London: Pluto Press.
Eriksen Thomas Hylland, Christina Garsten and Shalini Randeria, eds. Forthcoming.
Anthropology Now and Next: Diversity, Connections, Confrontations, Reflexivity.
London: Berghahn Publishers.
Galais, Nathalie, Christina Garsten and Bas Koene, eds. Forthcoming. Management and
Organization of Temporary Agency Work. London: Routledge.
Garsten, Christina, Jessica Lindvert and Renita Thedvall, eds. 2011. Arbetets marknad:
Arbetsmarknadens nya organisering. [The Job Market: New Forms of Organizing in
the Labour Market]. Malmö: Liber.
Garsten, Christina and Tor Hernes, eds. 2009. Ethical Dilemmas in Management. London:
Routledge.
Garsten, Christina. 2008. Workplace Vagabonds: Career and Community in Changing
Worlds of Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Boström, Magnus and Christina Garsten, eds. 2008. Organizing Transnational
Accountability. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Garsten, Christina and Monica Lindh de Montoya, eds. 2008. Transparency in a New
Global Order. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Garsten, Christina and Monica Lindh de Montoya, eds. 2004. Market Matters: Exploring
Cultural Processes in the Global Marketplace. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Garsten, Christina and Kerstin Jacobsson, eds. 2004. Learning to be Employable: New
Agendas on Work, Employability and Learning in a Globalizing World, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Garsten, Christina and Helena Wulff, eds. 2003. New Technologies at Work: People,
Screens, and Social Virtuality. Oxford: Berg.
Garsten, Christina and Kerstin Sundman, eds. 2003. Moderna människor: Antropologiska
perspektiv på samtiden [Modern people: Anthropological Perspectives on the
Contemporary]. Malmö: Liber.
Garsten, Christina. 1994. Apple World. - Core and Periphery in a Transnational
Organizational Culture. Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, 33. Stockholm:
Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. (Awarded for “Most
distinguished doctoral thesis” at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Stockholm
University 1994)
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Peer-reviewed book chapters
Garsten, Christina. Forthcoming. Flexibility frictions: Varieties of employee orientation
to work in the temporary staffing industry. In Flexible Capitalism. Kjaerulff, Jens
and Jakob Krause-Jensen, eds. London: Berghahn Publishers.
Garsten, Christina. Forthcoming. Global swirl at Dupont Circle: Think tanks, connectivity,
and the making of ‘the global’. In Anthropology Now and Next: Diversity,
Connections, Confrontations, Reflexivity. Eriksen Thomas Hylland, Christina Garsten
and Shalini Randeria, eds. London: Berghahn Publishers.
Garsten, Christina and Anette Nyqvist. Forthcoming. Introduction: Navigating
organisational worlds. In Organisational Anthropology: Doing Ethnography In and
Among Complex Organisations. Garsten, Christina and Anette Nyqvist, eds. London:
Pluto Press.
Garsten, Christina. Forthcoming. Reflect and reboot: Approaching think tanks at the
interface. In Organisational Anthropology: Doing Ethnography In and Among
Complex Organisations. Garsten, Christina and Anette Nyqvist, eds. London: Pluto
Press.
Garsten, Christina and Axel Haunschild. Forthcoming. Transient and flexible work lives:
Liminal organizations and the ‘reflexive habitus’. In Management and Organization
of Temporary Agency Work. Galais, Nathalie, Christina Garsten and Bas Koene, eds.
London: Routledge.
Galais, Nathalie, Garsten, Christina and Bas Koene. Forthcoming. Introduction: Managing
blended workforces. In Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work.
Galais, Nathalie, Christina Garsten and Bas Koene, eds. London: Routledge.
Garsten, Christina and Kerstin Jacobsson. Forthcoming. The ascent of post-political
global ethics: Harmony thinking in The UN Global Compact. In The UN Global
Compact: Alternative Voices. Catia Gregoratti and Bob Slob, eds. London: Pluto
Press.
Garsten, Christina and Hervé Laroche. Forthcoming. Humor, l’ennuie et sexe au travail
sdans L’Office: émotions et organisation. In Les grands inspirateurs des théories des
organisations. Germain, Olivier, ed. Paris: EMS.
Garsten, Christina and Adrienne Sörbom. Forthcoming. Values aligned: The organization
of conflicting values within the World Economic Forum. In Value Plurality. Alexius,
Susanna and Kristina Tamm-Hallström, eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Garsten, Christina. 2009. Ethnography at the Interface: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’
as an anthropological field of enquiry. In Ethnographic Practice in the Present.
Melhuus, Maarit, Jon Mitchell och Helena Wulff, eds. Oxford: Berghahn.
Garsten, Christina and Tor Hernes. 2009. Introduction: Dilemmas of ethical organizing.
In Ethical Dilemmas in Management. Garsten Christina and Tor Hernes, eds.
London: Routledge.
Garsten, Christina and Tor Hernes. 2009. Tying some ends together. In Ethical Dilemmas
in Management. Garsten Christina and Tor Hernes, eds. London: Routledge.
Garsten, Christina and Monica Lindh de Montoya. 2009. Transparency tricks: Corporate
accountability through visibility. In Ethical Dilemmas in Management. Garsten
Christina and Tor Hernes, eds. London: Routledge.
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Garsten, Christina and Tor Hernes. 2008. Beyond CSR: Dilemmas and paradoxes of
ethical conduct in transnational organizations. In Economics and Morality. Brown,
Kate and Lynne Milgram, eds. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press.
Boström, Magnus and Christina Garsten. 2008. Organizing for accountability. In
Organizing Transnational Accountability. Boström, Magnus and Christina Garsten,
eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Boström, Magnus and Christina Garsten. 2008. The treadmill of accountability. In
Organizing Transnational Accountability. Boström, Magnus and Christina Garsten,
eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Garsten Christina. 2008. The United Nations – soft and hard: Regulating social
responsibility for global business. In Organizing Transnational Accountability.
Boström, Magnus and Christina Garsten, eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
Publishing.
Garsten, Christina and Monica Lindh de Montoya. 2008. Introduction: Examining the
politics of transparency. In Transparency a New Global Order: Unveiling
Organizational Visions. Garsten, Christina and Monica Lindh de Montoya, eds.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Garsten, Christina and Monica Lindh de Montoya. 2008. The naked corporation:
Visualization, veiling and the ethico-politics of organizational transparency. In
Transparency a New Global Order: Unveiling Organizational Visions. Garsten,
Christina and Monica Lindh de Montoya, eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
Publishing.
Garsten, Christina och Monica Lindh de Montoya. 2008. In retrospect: The play of
shadows. In Transparency a New Global Order: Unveiling Organizational Visions.
Garsten, Christina and Monica Lindh de Montoya, eds. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
Publishing.
Garsten, Christina. 2007. Ethnography. In The Principles of Knowledge Creation Methods.
Gustavsson, Bengt, ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bergström, Ola and Christina Garsten. 2007. Det nya arbetets tid och plats. In
Organisation: teorier om ordning och oordning. Kärreman, Dan and Alf Rehn, eds.
Malmö: Liber.
Garsten, Christina and Staffan Furusten. 2005. ‘New’- professionalism: Conditions for
expertise in management consulting and temporary administrative staffing. In
Dealing with Confidence. Furusten, Staffan and Andreas Werr, eds. Copenhagen:
Copenhagen Business Press.
Garsten, Christina. 2005. Globalt socialt ansvar och kollektiva nyttigheter. Vad kan
civilsamhället göra? [Global social responsibility and collective goods. What can
civil society do?] In Civilsamhället, några forskningsfrågor [Civil society, some
research questions], Amnå, Erik, ed. Gidlunds förlag.
Garsten, Christina. 2004. Colleague, competitor, or client: Social boundaries in flexible
work arrangements. In Managing Boundaries in Organizations: Multiple
Perspectives. Paulsen, Niel and Tor Hernes, eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Garsten, Christina. 2004. Etnografi. In Kunskapande metoder i samhällsvetenskapen.
Gustavsson, Bengt, ed. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
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Christina Garsten och Monica Lindh de Montoya. 2004. Introduction: Exploring cultural
processes in the global marketplace. In Market Matters: Exploring Cultural
Processes in the Global Marketplace. Garsten, Christina and Monica Lindh de
Montoya, eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Christina Garsten. 2004. Market missions: Negotiating bottom line and social
responsibility. In Market Matters: Exploring Cultural Processes in the Global
Marketplace. Garsten, Christina and Monica Lindh de Montoya, eds. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Christina Garsten och Anna Hasselström. 2004. Homo mercans and the fashioning of
markets. In Market Matters: Exploring Cultural Processes in the Global Marketplace.
Garsten, Christina and Monica Lindh de Montoya, eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Garsten, Christina. 2004. ‘Be a Gumby’: The political technologies of employability in the
temporary staffing business. In Learning to be Employable: New Agendas on Work,
Responsibility and Learning in a Globalizing World. Garsten, Christina and Kerstin
Jacobsson, eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Christina Garsten och Kerstin Jacobsson. 2004. Learning to be employable: An
introduction. In Learning to be Employable: New Agendas on Work, Responsibility
and Learning in a Globalizing World. Garsten, Christina and Kerstin Jacobsson, eds.
Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Christina Garsten och Kerstin Jacobsson. 2004. Discursive transformations and the
nature of modern power. In Learning to be Employable: New Agendas on Work,
Responsibility and Learning in a Globalizing World. Garsten, Christina and Kerstin
Jacobsson, eds. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Garsten, Christina och Helena Wulff. 2003. Introduction: From people of the book to
people of the screen. In New Technologies at Work: People, Screens, and Social
Virtuality. Garsten, Christina and Helena Wulff, eds. Oxford: Berg.
Garsten, Christina och David Lerdell. 2003. Mainstream rebels: informalization and
standardization in the networked world. In New Technologies at Work: People,
Screens, and Social Virtuality. Garsten, Christina and Helena Wulff, eds. Oxford:
Berg.
Garsten, Christina. Nya tidens nomader: arbetsmarknad i förändring. In Moderna
människor: antropologiska perspektiv på samtiden. Garsten, Christina and Kerstin
Sundman, eds. Malmö: Liber.
Garsten, Christina and Kerstin Sundman. 2003. Introduktion: på spaning i samtiden. In
Moderna människor: antropologiska perspektiv på samtiden. Garsten, Christina and
Kerstin Sundman, eds. Malmö: Liber.
Garsten, Christina. 2002. Flex fads: New economy, new employees. In Stuck in the Future:
Tracing the ‘New Economy’. Holmberg, Ingalilll, Miriam Salzer-Mörling and Lars
Strannegård, eds. Book House Publishing.
Grey, Chris and Christina Garsten. 2002. Organized and disorganized Utopias: An essay
on presumption. In Utopia, Ideology and Organization. Parker, Martin, ed. Oxford:
Blackwell.
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Garsten, Christina. 2001. Bland ‘äpplen’ och ‘änglar’ i translokala organisationer. In Flera
fält i ett. Hannerz, Ulf. ed. Stockholm: Carlssons.
Ahrne, Göran, Nils Brunsson and Christina Garsten. 2000. Standardizing through
organization. In A World of Standards. Brunsson, Nils and Bengt Jacobsson, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Garsten, Christina and Jan Turtinen. 2000. ‘Angels’ and ‘chameleons’: The cultural
construction of the flexible temporary employee in Sweden and the UK. In After
Full Employment. European Discourses on Work and Flexibility. Stråth, Bo, ed.
Brussels: Peter Lang.
Garsten, Christina. 1999. Loose links and tight attachments: Modes of employment and
meaning-making in a changing labor market. In Modern Organisations and
Emerging Conundrums. Goodman, R. ed. New Lexington Press.
Brunsson, Nils, Göran Ahrne and Christina Garsten. 1998. Standardisering genom
organisering. In Standardisering. Brunsson, Nils and Bengt Jacobsson, eds.,
Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus Förlag.
Ahrne, Göran and Christina Garsten. 1998. ”Stat och företag som arbetsförmedlare.” In
Stater som organisationer. G. Ahrne, ed. Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus Förlag.
Garsten, Christina. 1997. The double-dealing of rhetoric: An anthropological perspective
on the dynamics of organizing in the Swedish public sector. In State, Market and
Organizational Form. Bugra A. and B. Üsdiken, eds. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Reports
Garsten, Christina, with Irène Béllier and Birgit Müller. 2008. Global swirl: some
reflections on European organizing in the context of globalization. In
Anthropological Perspectives in a Changing Europe: Bringing People In. Working
document. European Commission, European Research Area.
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ssh/library_en.html.
Garsten, Christina, Niklas Jambrén, Jessica Lindvert, and Renita Thedvall. 2006. From
Employability to the Development of Workers’ Capabilities. Mobility, Learning and
Responsibility in Swedish Worklife. National Report to the European Commission
from the project EUROCAP (Social Dialogue, Empowerment and Territories.
Towards a European Politics of Capabilities). Stockholm, Score: February 2006.
Garsten, Christina. 2004. Global Compact Research Report, Sweden. Stockholm: SWECORP
Citizenship AB and Score (Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research).
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