Nils Brunsson is a professor of Management affiliated with Uppsala University and the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE), Sweden. He has punlished numerous articles and has authored, co-authored or edited more than thirty books in the field of management and organizational studies.

"This is an attractive book, full of challeging paradoxes. Brunsson manages to overturn conventionale theory agaian, each time with great élan" -- Richard Whittington, Journal of Management Studies