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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“That was easier when we were sitting together”: Managerial work as ordering with place	106
With or without you: Career capital development as experienced by MBA alumni	35
Decolonizing research using gamification: The case of Choco	30
I, strategist	26
Embracing the academic–practice gap: Knowledge collaboration and the role of institutional knotting	25
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies Linda Tallberg and Lindsay Hamilton (eds) TallbergLindaHamiltonLindsay (eds), The Oxford	22
Reworking knowledge in the everyday life experience of a French-Italian company: An analysis conducted through the lens of Alfred Schütz	22
Writing a thesis as a story: Or how we learned to stop worrying and love writing	20
Trojan horses: Creating a positive hidden (extra)curriculum through a Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative	20
Embedding entrepreneurship education in non-business courses: A systematic review and guidelines for practice	19
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	18
A thanks and a farewell	18
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	18
We-experiences and the maintenance of workplace friendships: Being workplace friends together	17
Learning about artificial intelligence? Cluelessness, courage, and magic in facing a moving target	16
Communicatively constructing resilience in public education organizations: Invoking a bigger purpose and growth mindset messaging	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
An attempt to become an-Other critical scholar: Bridging as ‘activist performativity’	15
‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy	14
Learning differently	13
(Re)turning to body : Joseph Beuys, alternative organizing, and management education	13
On forgiveness and letting go	13
Moving from responsibility learning inaction to ‘responsibility learning-in-action’: A student-educator collective writing on the ‘unnoticed’ in the hidd	13
A decolonising approach to Practice Theories in management and organisation studies	13
Demonstrating impact: A review of strategies management educators use to communicate the effectiveness of in-class experiential exercises	13

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
The island in the sun: A dialogue perspective on “becoming differently” in the neoliberal university	12
A collaborative autoethnographic journey of collective storying: Transitioning between the ‘I’, the ‘We’ and the ‘They’	12
Navigating epistemic colonialism in an Indian MBA: Student experience beyond colonial difference	12
Application of the systemic lessons learned knowledge model to learning in complex projects: How project practitioners are shaping their learning	11
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	11
Vital materiality and its constitution of knowing in craft practice	11
What is Leadership? Reflexive provocation in the business school classroom	11
Intersectional reflexivity and an uncomfortable account of researcher privilege	11
Homo responsabilis as an extension of the neoliberal hidden curriculum: The triple responsibilization of responsible management education	10
Generative artificial intelligence and learning: At the dawn of Idiocracy?	10
The role of networks in shaping entrepreneurial leadership: A longitudinal case study	10
Flipping the normative: Developing and delivering a critical pedagogy for executive education in a UK business school	10
Looking back, moving forward: Celebrating Management Learning ’s 55 years of publication	10
Infusing courageous love for universal dignity and environmental response- ability through management education and learning: Inspired By Freire’s dream	9
Learning from poor leadership practice	9
Formative, not extractive: How critically reflexive research makes a difference	8
Participatory (management) learning in the era of digital transformation	8
Reimagining leadership development for BME leaders: Harnessing peer learning to advance an environment–individual leadership development programme	8
Beyond research excellence: A proposal for complementary evaluative practices in management and organisation studies	8
Extreme fiction for leadership development	8
Unveiling systemic oppression in business education: Freire’s contribution to our quest for social change	8
Can improvisation be paradoxical? Learner positionality and the improvised digital disruption	8
Reclaiming the humanities in management learning: A non-instrumental approach to empathy and self-liberation	7
Every little action counts: How cognitive, affective, relational, and agentic (micro-)practices support academic micro-transformation	7
“Make a ripple”: DEI learning transfer from the graduate classroom to the workplace among part-time graduate students	7
Demeaning, depriving, and isolating the academic subject: A case study of the degradation of professional autonomy	6
Book Review: Menopause Transitions and the Workplace: Theorizing Transitions, Responsibilities and Interventions Vanessa Beck and Jo Brewis (eds)	6
Equitable futures: Afrofuturism’s critical world-building potential for management education	6
Can we do this together? Exploring the transformative potential of care for academic work, labor, and life	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
Organizational learning: Understanding cognitive barriers and what organizations can do about them	6
Vertical ethnography: Writing the poetics of materiality	6
The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics	6
Critical performativity in leadership learning: Curating the critical and normative in a government senior leader apprenticeship	5
Fostering divergent thinking in management education: A five-stage model of student case writing	5
Putting the scholar back into scholarship, the researcher into research, the knower into knowing, the entrepreneur into entrepreneurship . . .: A call to interiority	5
A collaborative autoethnography of embodied leadership struggles: The case of leaderful practices in a university context	5
Lived rhythms as a ground for togetherness and learning in hybrid workspace	5
Must editors be political activists?	5
Getting into top-ranked management journals from business schools at the periphery: The role of doctoral education and co-authorship	5
Academic work and imagination: Reflections of an armchair traveler	5
Disidentification as decolonial pedagogic praxis in a Southern business school	5
How do inclusive leaders emerge? A theory-based model	5
Lists and other external measures of scholarship	5
Finding the lacuna : Centering student learning	5
Seeing with and seeing through : Revealing leadership as an emergent, situated process through peer shadowing within leadershi	5
Collective creativity through a learning lens: Paradoxes of convergence and divergence in an art and theater project	5

Teaching management in the context of Grand Challenges: A pragmatist approach	5
Emotional aspects of a planned intervention left behind: Revisiting Change Laboratory as a methodology for change	5
Developing collective leadership in an online peer learning community	5
Scaling up and scaling down: Improvisational handling of critical work practices during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
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
Addressing “Bullshit” work in neoliberal academia: Tales from an audit experience and a call to action	4
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
‘Come together’: An ethnographic study of ‘resistance as ‘emotion work’’ during academic industrial action following the imposition of a new management strategy	4
Book Review: Organizational communication: Opportunity or challenge? Dennis K Mumby and Timothy R Kuhn MumbyDennis KKuhnTimothy R, Organizational Communi	4
Putting the “executive” back in the EMBA: Designing paradox-savvy learning goals for holistic professional development	4
Irreverent and indisciplined: Outranking management learning amid planetary ruination	4
Coaching for regenerative leadership: A fourth-generation integrative framework	4
Be(com)ing other-oriented: Mindfulness-trained leaders’ experiences of their enhanced social awareness	4
Conscientisation and Communities of Compost: Rethinking management pedagogy in an age of climate crises	4
AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools	3
Development of a data warehouse for the assessment of entrepreneurship education	3
Atmospheres of care, coercion, and containment: An affective ethnography	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
(De)humanization in the business school: Critical reflection on doctoral experiences	3
Leisure, hustle and career: Informal skills acquisition in accordion repairing	3
Ducks, elephants and sharks: Using LEGO ^® Serious Play ^® to surface the ‘hidden curriculum’ of equ	3
Book Review: Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives; Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings	3
Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire	3
Against mastery: Epistemic decolonizing in the margins of the Business School	3
Learning into practice shaped by discursive dynamics: Relevance of MBA for experienced managers	3
Cooperatives and business schools: Why the disconnect?	3
Learning to manage as learning to fail: The lessons of running	3
Book Review: Discovering Organizations BurrowRobin, Discovering Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2025. pp. 1–280. £14.99. ISBN: 9780192663214; ISBN: 9780192847461	2
Governing antiracism: Affective governmentality and managerial learning in the neoliberal university	2
The rotten core of In Search of Excellence : Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project	2
Nurturing sympathetic knowing in organizational learning: A pragmatist inquiry in onboarding to high-stress social work	2
In Praise of Shadows : Exploring the hidden (responsibility) curriculum	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
Beyond the entrepreneur: A study of entrepreneurial learning from a social practice perspective working with scientists in West Africa	2
Diversity and stratification of international authorship and knowledge production in published management and business research	2
Turning complexity into a Delight to the Mind : An integrative framework for teaching and learning complex reasoning	2
Ambition in popular business practitioner-oriented discourse: What the heck are we talking about?	2
Challenging the hidden curriculum: Building a lived process for responsibility in responsible management education	2
Decolonising the business and management curriculum: An ontological modesty perspective	2
Belonging beyond the organisation: Situated learning and identity in liminal boundary roles	2
Multilingual un/learning for decolonizing management and organization studies research and education	2