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Papers

(The median citation count of Management Learning is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire	38
Lived rhythms as a ground for togetherness and learning in hybrid workspace	38
Decolonizing research using gamification: The case of Choco	30
The gradeless paradox: Emancipatory promises but ambivalent effects of gradeless learning in business and management education	30
There’s nothing as practical as understanding the nature of theory: A phenomenographic study of management educators’ implicit theories of theory	23
Taking leadership fashions seriously as a vehicle for leadership learning	22
Structured shadowing as a pedagogy	22
I, strategist	21
“If a (queer) revolt is to come”: Toward a sensuous pedagogy for dis/orienting management learning	21
Learning to manage a mental health condition: Caring for the self and ‘normalizing’ identity at work	17
Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning	17
(Un)felt ferments: Limning liminal professional subjectivities with pragmatist–posthuman feminism and intimate scholarship	16
With or without you: Career capital development as experienced by MBA alumni	16
Book review: Made to work: Mobilising contemporary worklives	16
Harnessing chaos: Antifragility’s lessons for management, strategy, and organizational learning	14
Challenging the hidden curriculum: Building a lived process for responsibility in responsible management education	14
Experiencing communality in collective activity: Four ways to generate sameness in differences	13
Book Review: Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives; Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings	12
Book Review: Debating Business School Legitimacy: Attacking, Rocking, and Defending the Status Quo Anders Örtenblad and Riina Koris (eds)	11
Interweaving positive and critical perspectives in management learning and teaching	10
The role of professional elites in shaping management practice: How the old mentalities condition the adoption of new management ideas	9
How do inclusive leaders emerge? A theory-based model	9
AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools	9
Corrigendum to Critical reflection, unlearning, and engagement	9
How to be a hero: How managers determine what makes a good manager through narrative identity work	8

(De)humanization in the business school: Critical reflection on doctoral experiences	8
Towards an integral pedagogy in the age of ‘digital Gestell’: Moving between embodied co-presence and telepresence in learning and teaching practices	8
Beyond the entrepreneur: A study of entrepreneurial learning from a social practice perspective working with scientists in West Africa	8
Intersectional reflexivity and an uncomfortable account of researcher privilege	8
Book review: Rethinking Leadership: A New Look at Old Questions	8
Embracing the academic–practice gap: Knowledge collaboration and the role of institutional knotting	8
Learning to manage as learning to fail: The lessons of running	7
Algorithmic management learning	7
Arts-based methods in business education: A reflection on a photo-elicitation project	7
Book review: Bridgman & Cummings: A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory	7
History in management learning: A multi-temporal reflexive approach	7
Feeling your way as an occupational minority: The gendered sensilisation of women electronic music artists	7
Writing differently in Management Learning	7
Developing critical geopolitical awareness in management education	6
The fallacies of non-agility: Approaching organizational agility through a dialectical practice perspective	6
How we learn whiteness: Disciplining and resisting management knowledge	6
The Catch-22 organization: Living with austerity, bureaucracy and absurdity in a public sector organization	6
Infusing courageous love for universal dignity and environmental response-ability through management education and learning: Inspired By Freire’s dream	6
Paulo Freire and the praxis of liberation: Education, organization and ethics	5
Turning complexity into a Delight to the Mind: An integrative framework for teaching and learning complex reasoning	5
Homo responsabilis as an extension of the neoliberal hidden curriculum: The triple responsibilization of responsible management education	5
Flipping the normative: Developing and delivering a critical pedagogy for executive education in a UK business school	5
A tragic ethics for the Anthropocene: On the unmanageable and impossible in management learning	5
Authorising managers in management development?	5
Scaling up and scaling down: Improvisational handling of critical work practices during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Navigating hope and despair in sustainability education: A reflexive roadmap for being with eco-anxiety in the classroom	5
Students of entrepreneurship: Sorting, risk behaviour and implications for entrepreneurship programmes	5
Book Review: The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder	5
Management learning and the unsettled humanities: Introduction to the special issue	5
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies	5
Responsibility as weight and space: An aesthetic (re)theorising of responsibility and responsible leadership development for youth	5
Taking stock of “Organizational Learning”: Looking back and moving forward	5
Gamifying situated learning in organisations	5
Trojan horses: Creating a positive hidden (extra)curriculum through a Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative	5
Book review: Movements in Organizational Communication Research: Current Issues and Future Directions	4
Immigrant academic mothers negotiating ideal worker and mother norms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Duoethnography as a co-mentoring tool for transformative learning	4
Leadership development and the politics of intentionality: A case study of organisational theatre	4
‘Dracarys’ for all: TV series and experiential learning	4
The sensory imperative	4
Into the realm of organizational folly: A poem, a review, and a typology of organizational stupidity	4
Power, politics and improvisation: Learning during a prolonged crisis	4
Exploring the embodied subtleties of collaborative creativity: What organisations can learn from dance	4
In Praise of Shadows: Exploring the hidden (responsibility) curriculum	4
The rotten core of In Search of Excellence: Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project	4
Learning from poor leadership practice	4
Critical management education: Selected auto-ethnographic vignettes on how attachment to identity may disrupt learning	3
Looking back, moving forward: Celebrating Management Learning’s 55 years of publication	3
Reimagining academic conferences: Toward a federated model of conferencing	3
Unlearning organized numbness through poetic synesthesia: A study in scarlet	3
The role of networks in shaping entrepreneurial leadership: A longitudinal case study	3

Putting management knowledge in perspective: Education as an ethical and political endeavor	3
Character-enabled improvisation and the new normal: A paradox perspective	3
Un/learning racism in the business school: Recovering embodiments of the hidden curriculum for re-humanising management education	3
Reinventing intellectual craftsmanship through book reviews	3
Decolonizing journals in management and organizations? Epistemological colonial encounters and the double translation	3
Organization encounters a new virus: A cautionary tale of othering and (not) learning	3
Bolstering responsible management education through the sustainable development goals: Three perspectives	3
Embedding entrepreneurship education in non-business courses: A systematic review and guidelines for practice	3
Early career researchers’ identity threats in the field: The shelter and shadow of collective support	2
Taking freedom back from the ‘Performative University’ special issue revisited: A dead end or a pathway to taking freedom forward?	2
Paradoxes of organisational learning in policing: ‘The truth, but not the whole truth, for everyone’s sake’	2
Beyond research excellence: A proposal for complementary evaluative practices in management and organisation studies	2
The ghost of capitalism: A guide to seeing, naming and exorcising the spectre haunting the business school	2
Book review: The affective researcher	2
A sense of spacing: Toward a diffractive reading of organizational space	2
Immersion, drowning, dispersion and resurfacing: Coping with the emotions of ethnographic management learning	2
Book review: The Routledge Companion to Organizational Diversity Research Methods	2
Disjunctions in the context of management learning: An exemplary publication of narrative fiction	2
Provocations: Who, what, where, why and how?	2
Be(com)ing other-oriented: Mindfulness-trained leaders’ experiences of their enhanced social awareness	2
Making leadership as practice development visible: Learning from Activity Theory	2
Sensing: The elephant in the room of management learning	2
Unveiling systemic oppression in business education: Freire’s contribution to our quest for social change	2
Professional identity reconstruction: Attempts to match people with new role expectations and environmental demands	2
No one deserves professional annihilation: Learning from women’s experiences of leadership work-caused trauma	2
Extreme fiction for leadership development	2
Can improvisation be paradoxical? Learner positionality and the improvised digital disruption	1
Speaking truth to power: The academic as jester stimulating management learning	1
Organizational learning: Understanding cognitive barriers and what organizations can do about them	1
Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions	1
Conditions for reflexive practices in leadership learning: The regulating role of a socio-moral order of peer interactions	1
Walking the tightrope of academic and practitioner expectations in field research	1
Rescuing the Princess: How phronetic wisdom was learned and deployed on Britain’s railways	1
Academic identities and sense of place: A collaborative autoethnography in the neoliberal university	1
What’s next? (Un)learning nothingness and non-events in management education	1
Equitable futures: Afrofuturism’s critical world-building potential for management education	1
Teaching multiple approaches to management to facilitate prosocial and environmental well-being	1
Can we do this together? Exploring the transformative potential of care for academic work, labor, and life	1
Ways to write an academic life: Queering the academic curriculum vitae	1
Organizational learning through character-based judgment	1
Formative, not extractive: How critically reflexive research makes a difference	1
Demeaning, depriving, and isolating the academic subject: A case study of the degradation of professional autonomy	1
Irreverent and indisciplined: Outranking management learning amid planetary ruination	1
Vertical ethnography: Writing the poetics of materiality	1
Working with the potential of arts-based learning: Making sense and leaving ‘business as usual’ behind in an art seminar	1
Toward a pedagogy of connection: A critical view of being relational in listening	1
Creating a lean mind-set: Change of practice towards early treatment	1
The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics	1