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Papers

(The median citation count of Management Learning is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“That was easier when we were sitting together”: Managerial work as ordering with place	97
With or without you: Career capital development as experienced by MBA alumni	29
Decolonizing research using gamification: The case of Choco	25
Embracing the academic–practice gap: Knowledge collaboration and the role of institutional knotting	24
I, strategist	23
A tragic ethics for the Anthropocene: On the unmanageable and impossible in management learning	22
Trojan horses: Creating a positive hidden (extra)curriculum through a Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative	21
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies Linda Tallberg and Lindsay Hamilton (eds) TallbergLindaHamiltonLindsay (eds), The Oxford	19
Making leadership as practice development visible: Learning from Activity Theory	18
Writing a thesis as a story: Or how we learned to stop worrying and love writing	18
Embedding entrepreneurship education in non-business courses: A systematic review and guidelines for practice	17
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	16
Organizational learning through character-based judgment	16
Watching you, watching me: A review of Michel Anteby’s The Interloper Based on: AntebyMichel, The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field. Princ	15
Learning about artificial intelligence? Cluelessness, courage, and magic in facing a moving target	15
Communicatively constructing resilience in public education organizations: Invoking a bigger purpose and growth mindset messaging	15
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	15
A thanks and a farewell	15
We-experiences and the maintenance of workplace friendships: Being workplace friends together	15
‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy	14
An attempt to become an-Other critical scholar: Bridging as ‘activist performativity’	14
Moving from responsibility learning inaction to ‘responsibility learning-in-action’: A student-educator collective writing on the ‘unnoticed’ in the hidd	14
A decolonising approach to Practice Theories in management and organisation studies	13
On forgiveness and letting go	13
Learning differently	13

Navigating epistemic colonialism in an Indian MBA: Student experience beyond colonial difference	13
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	12
A collaborative autoethnographic journey of collective storying: Transitioning between the ‘I’, the ‘We’ and the ‘They’	12
Intersectional reflexivity and an uncomfortable account of researcher privilege	12
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	12
Vital materiality and its constitution of knowing in craft practice	12
What is Leadership? Reflexive provocation in the business school classroom	12
Learning from poor leadership practice	11
Looking back, moving forward: Celebrating Management Learning ’s 55 years of publication	11
Homo responsabilis as an extension of the neoliberal hidden curriculum: The triple responsibilization of responsible management education	11
Generative artificial intelligence and learning: At the dawn of Idiocracy?	11
Flipping the normative: Developing and delivering a critical pedagogy for executive education in a UK business school	11
Infusing courageous love for universal dignity and environmental response- ability through management education and learning: Inspired By Freire’s dream	10
Can improvisation be paradoxical? Learner positionality and the improvised digital disruption	10
Extreme fiction for leadership development	10
Participatory (management) learning in the era of digital transformation	10
Application of the systemic lessons learned knowledge model to learning in complex projects: How project practitioners are shaping their learning	10
The role of networks in shaping entrepreneurial leadership: A longitudinal case study	10
Vertical ethnography: Writing the poetics of materiality	9
Unveiling systemic oppression in business education: Freire’s contribution to our quest for social change	9
Organizational learning: Understanding cognitive barriers and what organizations can do about them	9
Every little action counts: How cognitive, affective, relational, and agentic (micro-)practices support academic micro-transformation	9
Formative, not extractive: How critically reflexive research makes a difference	9
The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics	9
Beyond research excellence: A proposal for complementary evaluative practices in management and organisation studies	9
Can we do this together? Exploring the transformative potential of care for academic work, labor, and life	8
Longing as learning, learning as longing: Insights and improvisations in a year of disrupted studies	7
Creating a lean mind-set: Change of practice towards early treatment	7
Sex/gender inequity in management learning equals violence towards women	7
Equitable futures: Afrofuturism’s critical world-building potential for management education	7
Getting into top-ranked management journals from business schools at the periphery: The role of doctoral education and co-authorship	6
Book Review: Menopause Transitions and the Workplace: Theorizing Transitions, Responsibilities and Interventions Vanessa Beck and Jo Brewis (eds)	6
Toward full inclusion: Understanding individual experiences as epistemic resources in sameness-difference dilemmas	6
Demeaning, depriving, and isolating the academic subject: A case study of the degradation of professional autonomy	6
Critical performativity in leadership learning: Curating the critical and normative in a government senior leader apprenticeship	6
Must editors be political activists?	5
Putting the scholar back into scholarship, the researcher into research, the knower into knowing, the entrepreneur into entrepreneurship . . .: A call to interiority	5
Teaching management in the context of Grand Challenges: A pragmatist approach	5
Lived rhythms as a ground for togetherness and learning in hybrid workspace	5
Finding the lacuna : Centering student learning	5
‘Come together’: An ethnographic study of ‘resistance as ‘emotion work’’ during academic industrial action following the imposition of a new management strategy	5
Fostering divergent thinking in management education: A five-stage model of student case writing	5
How do inclusive leaders emerge? A theory-based model	5
Emotional aspects of a planned intervention left behind: Revisiting Change Laboratory as a methodology for change	5
Navigating hope and despair in sustainability education: A reflexive roadmap for being with eco-anxiety in the classroom	5
Disidentification as decolonial pedagogic praxis in a Southern business school	5
Collective creativity through a learning lens: Paradoxes of convergence and divergence in an art and theater project	5
Academic work and imagination: Reflections of an armchair traveler	5
Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning	5
Developing collective leadership in an online peer learning community	5

Book Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running MurakamiHaruki, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007. 1-192 pp. ISBN: 13: 978-03073898	4
Scaling up and scaling down: Improvisational handling of critical work practices during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Ducks, elephants and sharks: Using LEGO ^® Serious Play ^® to surface the ‘hidden curriculum’ of equ	4
Leisure, hustle and career: Informal skills acquisition in accordion repairing	4
No one deserves professional annihilation: Learning from women’s experiences of leadership work-caused trauma	4
Peeling the (experiential) onion: A review of the interconnected layers of research on experiential learning in Management Learning between 2010 and 2024	4
Putting the “executive” back in the EMBA: Designing paradox-savvy learning goals for holistic professional development	4
Conscientisation and Communities of Compost: Rethinking management pedagogy in an age of climate crises	4
Learning into practice shaped by discursive dynamics: Relevance of MBA for experienced managers	4
Book Review: Organizational communication: Opportunity or challenge? Dennis K Mumby and Timothy R Kuhn MumbyDennis KKuhnTimothy R, Organizational Communi	4
Be(com)ing other-oriented: Mindfulness-trained leaders’ experiences of their enhanced social awareness	4
Irreverent and indisciplined: Outranking management learning amid planetary ruination	4
Against mastery: Epistemic decolonizing in the margins of the Business School	4
Addressing “Bullshit” work in neoliberal academia: Tales from an audit experience and a call to action	4
Development of a data warehouse for the assessment of entrepreneurship education	4
Belonging beyond the organisation: Situated learning and identity in liminal boundary roles	3
Nurturing sympathetic knowing in organizational learning: A pragmatist inquiry in onboarding to high-stress social work	3
Turning complexity into a Delight to the Mind : An integrative framework for teaching and learning complex reasoning	3
Atmospheres of care, coercion, and containment: An affective ethnography	3
Book Review: Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives; Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings	3
Beyond the entrepreneur: A study of entrepreneurial learning from a social practice perspective working with scientists in West Africa	3
Challenging the hidden curriculum: Building a lived process for responsibility in responsible management education	3
Decolonising the business and management curriculum: An ontological modesty perspective	3
In Praise of Shadows : Exploring the hidden (responsibility) curriculum	3
The rotten core of In Search of Excellence : Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project	3
Cooperatives and business schools: Why the disconnect?	3
Book Review: Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write SwordHelen, Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Universit	3
Learning to manage as learning to fail: The lessons of running	3
A sense of spacing: Toward a diffractive reading of organizational space	3
Teaching social innovation through place-based learning: Facilitating perspective sharing in co-creating social value	3
Diversity and stratification of international authorship and knowledge production in published management and business research	3
Book Review: Discovering Organizations BurrowRobin, Discovering Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2025. pp. 1–280. £14.99. ISBN: 9780192663214; ISBN: 9780192847461	3
Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire	3
Book Review: Harnessing chaos: Antifragility’s lessons for management, strategy, and organizational learning TalebNassim Nicholas, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. New York: Random House,	3
“If a (queer) revolt is to come”: Toward a sensuous pedagogy for dis/orienting management learning	3
AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools	3
(De)humanization in the business school: Critical reflection on doctoral experiences	3