OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Management Learning is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“That was easier when we were sitting together”: Managerial work as ordering with place	76
Book review: Bridgman & Cummings: A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory	52
I, strategist	31
Decolonizing research using gamification: The case of Choco	29
Embracing the academic–practice gap: Knowledge collaboration and the role of institutional knotting	22
With or without you: Career capital development as experienced by MBA alumni	22
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies Linda Tallberg and Lindsay Hamilton (eds) TallbergLindaHamiltonLindsay (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Anim	19
Trojan horses: Creating a positive hidden (extra)curriculum through a Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative	18
Into the realm of organizational folly: A poem, a review, and a typology of organizational stupidity	18
A tragic ethics for the Anthropocene: On the unmanageable and impossible in management learning	16
Immigrant academic mothers negotiating ideal worker and mother norms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Duoethnography as a co-mentoring tool for transformative learning	15
Decolonizing journals in management and organizations? Epistemological colonial encounters and the double translation	15
The sensory imperative	15
Making leadership as practice development visible: Learning from Activity Theory	14
Book review: Organizational ethnography	13
Book Review: Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis ReedCaraReedMichael, Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter GmbH, 2023, 232 pp, £18.50. ISBN: 978-3-11-0739	13
Embedding entrepreneurship education in non-business courses: A systematic review and guidelines for practice	13
Learning about artificial intelligence? Cluelessness, courage, and magic in facing a moving target	12
Book Review: Charismatic Leadership in Organizations: A Critique of Texts LehmanIga Maria, Charismatic Leadership in Organizations: A Critique of Texts, Routledge: New York, 2024. 129 pp.: 978-1-032-6	12
Organizational learning through character-based judgment	12
We-experiences and the maintenance of workplace friendships: Being workplace friends together	12
Towards an aspirational future: Cultivating ontological empathy within the ethos of Management Learning	11
Learning differently	10
Moving from responsibility learning inaction to ‘responsibility learning-in-action’: A student-educator collective writing on the ‘unnoticed’ in the hidden curriculum at business schools	10
A collaborative autoethnographic journey of collective storying: Transitioning between the ‘I’, the ‘We’ and the ‘They’	10

‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy	10
Book review: What Do Corporations Want? Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, and a New Theory of The Firm KuhnTimothy, What Do Corporations Want? Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, a	10
An attempt to become an-Other critical scholar: Bridging as ‘activist performativity’	10
Critical literature reviews: A critique and actionable advice	10
Vital materiality and its constitution of knowing in craft practice	9
Book review: Made to work: Mobilising contemporary worklives	9
Navigating epistemic colonialism in an Indian MBA: Student experience beyond colonial difference	9
Intersectional reflexivity and an uncomfortable account of researcher privilege	9
What is Leadership? Reflexive provocation in the business school classroom	9
Ideology, doxa and critical reflexive learning: The possibilities and limits of thinking that ‘diversity is good’	9
Looking back, moving forward: Celebrating Management Learning ’s 55 years of publication	9
Book review: The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory Epistemologizing and Vibing with Cozza and Gherardi, The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory, 2024, 240p, €165.82. ISBN 303142278	9
On forgiveness and letting go	9
Infusing courageous love for universal dignity and environmental response-ability through management education and learning: Inspired By Freire’s dream	8
The role of networks in shaping entrepreneurial leadership: A longitudinal case study	8
Homo responsabilis as an extension of the neoliberal hidden curriculum: The triple responsibilization of responsible management education	8
Application of the systemic lessons learned knowledge model to learning in complex projects: How project practitioners are shaping their learning	8
Flipping the normative: Developing and delivering a critical pedagogy for executive education in a UK business school	8
Generative artificial intelligence and learning: At the dawn of Idiocracy?	8
Unveiling systemic oppression in business education: Freire’s contribution to our quest for social change	7
Beyond research excellence: A proposal for complementary evaluative practices in management and organisation studies	7
Participatory (management) learning in the era of digital transformation	7
Learning from poor leadership practice	7
Can improvisation be paradoxical? Learner positionality and the improvised digital disruption	7
Can we do this together? Exploring the transformative potential of care for academic work, labor, and life	6
Organizational learning: Understanding cognitive barriers and what organizations can do about them	6
Extreme fiction for leadership development	6
Formative, not extractive: How critically reflexive research makes a difference	6
Sex/gender inequity in management learning equals violence towards women	6
Demeaning, depriving, and isolating the academic subject: A case study of the degradation of professional autonomy	6
Equitable futures: Afrofuturism’s critical world-building potential for management education	6
Creating a lean mind-set: Change of practice towards early treatment	6
The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics	6
Vertical ethnography: Writing the poetics of materiality	6
Longing as learning, learning as longing: Insights and improvisations in a year of disrupted studies	6
Getting into top-ranked management journals from business schools at the periphery: The role of doctoral education and co-authorship	5
Book Review: Menopause Transitions and the Workplace: Theorizing Transitions, Responsibilities and Interventions Vanessa Beck and Jo Brewis (eds)	5
Toward full inclusion: Understanding individual experiences as epistemic resources in sameness-difference dilemmas	5
Academic work and imagination: Reflections of an armchair traveler	5
Critical performativity in leadership learning: Curating the critical and normative in a government senior leader apprenticeship	5
Who is responsible for responsible business education? Insights into the dialectical inter-relations of dimensions of responsibility	4
How do inclusive leaders emerge? A theory-based model	4
Scaling up and scaling down: Improvisational handling of critical work practices during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Developing collective leadership in an online peer learning community	4
Collective creativity through a learning lens: Paradoxes of convergence and divergence in an art and theater project	4
Putting the scholar back into scholarship, the researcher into research, the knower into knowing, the entrepreneur into entrepreneurship . . .: A call to interiority	4
Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning	4
Navigating hope and despair in sustainability education: A reflexive roadmap for being with eco-anxiety in the classroom	4
Teaching management in the context of Grand Challenges: A pragmatist approach	4
Disidentification as decolonial pedagogic praxis in a Southern business school	4

Lived rhythms as a ground for togetherness and learning in hybrid workspace	4
No one deserves professional annihilation: Learning from women’s experiences of leadership work-caused trauma	4
Ducks, elephants and sharks: Using LEGO^® Serious Play^® to surface the ‘hidden curriculum’ of equality, diversity and inclusion	3
Atmospheres of care, coercion, and containment: An affective ethnography	3
Book review: Rethinking Leadership: A New Look at Old Questions	3
Cooperatives and business schools: Why the disconnect?	3
Be(com)ing other-oriented: Mindfulness-trained leaders’ experiences of their enhanced social awareness	3
Putting the “executive” back in the EMBA: Designing paradox-savvy learning goals for holistic professional development	3
Against mastery: Epistemic decolonizing in the margins of the Business School	3
Peeling the (experiential) onion: A review of the interconnected layers of research on experiential learning in Management Learning between 2010 and 2024	3
Harnessing chaos: Antifragility’s lessons for management, strategy, and organizational learning	3
Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire	3
Irreverent and indisciplined: Outranking management learning amid planetary ruination	3
Addressing “Bullshit” work in neoliberal academia: Tales from an audit experience and a call to action	3
Conscientisation and Communities of Compost: Rethinking management pedagogy in an age of climate crises	3
Learning into practice shaped by discursive dynamics: Relevance of MBA for experienced managers	3
Book Review: Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives; Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings	3
“If a (queer) revolt is to come”: Toward a sensuous pedagogy for dis/orienting management learning	3
Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions	3
Book Review: Organizational communication: Opportunity or challenge? Dennis K Mumby and Timothy R Kuhn MumbyDennis KKuhnTimothy R, Organizational Communication: A Critic	3
Arts-based methods in business education: A reflection on a photo-elicitation project	2
Learning to manage as learning to fail: The lessons of running	2
Beyond the entrepreneur: A study of entrepreneurial learning from a social practice perspective working with scientists in West Africa	2
‘Dracarys’ for all: TV series and experiential learning	2
Ambition in popular business practitioner-oriented discourse: What the heck are we talking about?	2
Decolonising the business and management curriculum: An ontological modesty perspective	2
AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools	2
In Praise of Shadows: Exploring the hidden (responsibility) curriculum	2
Turning complexity into a Delight to the Mind : An integrative framework for teaching and learning complex reasoning	2
Un/learning racism in the business school: Recovering embodiments of the hidden curriculum for re-humanising management education	2
(De)humanization in the business school: Critical reflection on doctoral experiences	2
Book Review: Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write SwordHelen, Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Universit	2
Interweaving positive and critical perspectives in management learning and teaching	2
Nurturing sympathetic knowing in organizational learning: A pragmatist inquiry in onboarding to high-stress social work	2
The rotten core of In Search of Excellence : Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project	2
Challenging the hidden curriculum: Building a lived process for responsibility in responsible management education	2