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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
I, strategist	50
Book review: Bridgman & Cummings: A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory	43
Decolonizing research using gamification: The case of Choco	27
Embracing the academic–practice gap: Knowledge collaboration and the role of institutional knotting	26
With or without you: Career capital development as experienced by MBA alumni	24
A tragic ethics for the Anthropocene: On the unmanageable and impossible in management learning	23
Into the realm of organizational folly: A poem, a review, and a typology of organizational stupidity	22
Trojan horses: Creating a positive hidden (extra)curriculum through a Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative	20
The sensory imperative	19
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies Linda Tallberg and Lindsay Hamilton (eds) TallbergLindaHamiltonLindsay (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Anim	18
Immigrant academic mothers negotiating ideal worker and mother norms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Duoethnography as a co-mentoring tool for transformative learning	17
Decolonizing journals in management and organizations? Epistemological colonial encounters and the double translation	16
Embedding entrepreneurship education in non-business courses: A systematic review and guidelines for practice	15
Making leadership as practice development visible: Learning from Activity Theory	14
Book review: Organizational ethnography	14
Speaking truth to power: The academic as jester stimulating management learning	14
Organizational learning through character-based judgment	13
Towards an aspirational future: Cultivating ontological empathy within the ethos of Management Learning	11
We-experiences and the maintenance of workplace friendships: Being workplace friends together	11
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	11
Toward a pedagogy of connection: A critical view of being relational in listening	11
Psychodynamics of imagination failures: Reflections on the 20th anniversary of 9/11	10
‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy	10
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

Critical literature reviews: A critique and actionable advice	10
An attempt to become an-Other critical scholar: Bridging as ‘activist performativity’	10
Navigating epistemic colonialism in an Indian MBA: Student experience beyond colonial difference	9
Animal activism in the business school: Using fierce compassion for teaching critical and positive perspectives	9
Ideology, doxa and critical reflexive learning: The possibilities and limits of thinking that ‘diversity is good’	9
A collaborative autoethnographic journey of collective storying: Transitioning between the ‘I’, the ‘We’ and the ‘They’	9
On forgiveness and letting go	9
Book review: Made to work: Mobilising contemporary worklives	8
The role of networks in shaping entrepreneurial leadership: A longitudinal case study	8
Intersectional reflexivity and an uncomfortable account of researcher privilege	8
Book review: Movements in Organizational Communication Research: Current Issues and Future Directions	8
Vital materiality and its constitution of knowing in craft practice	8
Learning from poor leadership practice	8
Homo responsabilis as an extension of the neoliberal hidden curriculum: The triple responsibilization of responsible management education	7
Can improvisation be paradoxical? Learner positionality and the improvised digital disruption	7
The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics	7
Looking back, moving forward: Celebrating Management Learning ’s 55 years of publication	7
Infusing courageous love for universal dignity and environmental response-ability through management education and learning: Inspired By Freire’s dream	7
Extreme fiction for leadership development	7
Organizational learning: Understanding cognitive barriers and what organizations can do about them	7
Flipping the normative: Developing and delivering a critical pedagogy for executive education in a UK business school	7
Beyond research excellence: A proposal for complementary evaluative practices in management and organisation studies	7
Unveiling systemic oppression in business education: Freire’s contribution to our quest for social change	7
Formative, not extractive: How critically reflexive research makes a difference	7
Can we do this together? Exploring the transformative potential of care for academic work, labor, and life	6
Vertical ethnography: Writing the poetics of materiality	6
Toward full inclusion: Understanding individual experiences as epistemic resources in sameness-difference dilemmas	6
Sex/gender inequity in management learning equals violence towards women	6
Creating a lean mind-set: Change of practice towards early treatment	6
Equitable futures: Afrofuturism’s critical world-building potential for management education	6
Academic work and imagination: Reflections of an armchair traveler	6
Demeaning, depriving, and isolating the academic subject: A case study of the degradation of professional autonomy	6
Longing as learning, learning as longing: Insights and improvisations in a year of disrupted studies	6
Book Review: Menopause Transitions and the Workplace: Theorizing Transitions, Responsibilities and Interventions Vanessa Beck and Jo Brewis (eds)	6
Teaching management in the context of Grand Challenges: A pragmatist approach	6
How do inclusive leaders emerge? A theory-based model	5
Who is responsible for responsible business education? Insights into the dialectical inter-relations of dimensions of responsibility	5
Scaling up and scaling down: Improvisational handling of critical work practices during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning	5
Getting into top-ranked management journals from business schools at the periphery: The role of doctoral education and co-authorship	5
Lived rhythms as a ground for togetherness and learning in hybrid workspace	5
(Un)felt ferments: Limning liminal professional subjectivities with pragmatist–posthuman feminism and intimate scholarship	5
Navigating hope and despair in sustainability education: A reflexive roadmap for being with eco-anxiety in the classroom	4
Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions	4
Conscientisation and Communities of Compost: Rethinking management pedagogy in an age of climate crises	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
Addressing “Bullshit” work in neoliberal academia: Tales from an audit experience and a call to action	4
No one deserves professional annihilation: Learning from women’s experiences of leadership work-caused trauma	4
Organizational communication: Opportunity or challenge?	4

Peeling the (experiential) onion: A review of the interconnected layers of research on experiential learning in Management Learning between 2010 and 2024	4
Atmospheres of care, coercion, and containment: An affective ethnography	3
The courage to teach with compassion: Enriching classroom designs and practices to foster responsiveness to suffering	3
Arts-based methods in business education: A reflection on a photo-elicitation project	3
Interweaving positive and critical perspectives in management learning and teaching	3
Challenging the hidden curriculum: Building a lived process for responsibility in responsible management education	3
Ducks, elephants and sharks: Using LEGO^® Serious Play^® to surface the ‘hidden curriculum’ of equality, diversity and inclusion	3
Cooperatives and business schools: Why the disconnect?	3
Against mastery: Epistemic decolonizing in the margins of the Business School	3
AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools	3
“If a (queer) revolt is to come”: Toward a sensuous pedagogy for dis/orienting management learning	3
Advancing book clubs as non-formal learning to facilitate critical public pedagogy in organizations	3
Power and knowledge negotiations in a collectivity of practice: From peripheralization to epistemological suspicion	3
Harnessing chaos: Antifragility’s lessons for management, strategy, and organizational learning	3
Corrigendum to Critical reflection, unlearning, and engagement	3
Book Review: Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives; Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings	3
Ambition in popular business practitioner-oriented discourse: What the heck are we talking about?	2
Book review: Rethinking Leadership: A New Look at Old Questions	2
Beyond the entrepreneur: A study of entrepreneurial learning from a social practice perspective working with scientists in West Africa	2
Turning complexity into a Delight to the Mind: An integrative framework for teaching and learning complex reasoning	2
Reimagining academic conferences: Toward a federated model of conferencing	2
Sensing: The elephant in the room of management learning	2
A sense of spacing: Toward a diffractive reading of organizational space	2
The rotten core of In Search of Excellence: Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project	2
Learning to manage as learning to fail: The lessons of running	2
Decolonising the business and management curriculum: An ontological modesty perspective	2
‘Dracarys’ for all: TV series and experiential learning	2
What’s next? (Un)learning nothingness and non-events in management education	2
Provocations: Who, what, where, why and how?	2
(De)humanization in the business school: Critical reflection on doctoral experiences	2
Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire	2
In Praise of Shadows: Exploring the hidden (responsibility) curriculum	2
Gamifying situated learning in organisations	2
Un/learning racism in the business school: Recovering embodiments of the hidden curriculum for re-humanising management education	2