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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Embracing the academic–practice gap: Knowledge collaboration and the role of institutional knotting	42
I, strategist	40
Book review: Bridgman & Cummings: A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory	27
With or without you: Career capital development as experienced by MBA alumni	25
Decolonizing research using gamification: The case of Choco	23
Into the realm of organizational folly: A poem, a review, and a typology of organizational stupidity	22
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	20
Immigrant academic mothers negotiating ideal worker and mother norms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Duoethnography as a co-mentoring tool for transformative learning	19
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies Linda Tallberg and Lindsay Hamilton (eds) TallbergLindaHamiltonLindsay (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Anim	17
The sensory imperative	16
Decolonizing journals in management and organizations? Epistemological colonial encounters and the double translation	15
Making leadership as practice development visible: Learning from Activity Theory	14
Embedding entrepreneurship education in non-business courses: A systematic review and guidelines for practice	14
Book review: Organizational ethnography	13
Speaking truth to power: The academic as jester stimulating management learning	13
Organizational learning through character-based judgment	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	11
We-experiences and the maintenance of workplace friendships: Being workplace friends together	11
Toward a pedagogy of connection: A critical view of being relational in listening	10
Towards an aspirational future: Cultivating ontological empathy within the ethos of Management Learning	10
An attempt to become an-Other critical scholar: Bridging as ‘activist performativity’	10
Critical literature reviews: A critique and actionable advice	10
‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy	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

On forgiveness and letting go	9
Ideology, doxa and critical reflexive learning: The possibilities and limits of thinking that ‘diversity is good’	9
Navigating epistemic colonialism in an Indian MBA: Student experience beyond colonial difference	9
Learning differently	9
Psychodynamics of imagination failures: Reflections on the 20th anniversary of 9/11	9
Vital materiality and its constitution of knowing in craft practice	8
Animal activism in the business school: Using fierce compassion for teaching critical and positive perspectives	8
A collaborative autoethnographic journey of collective storying: Transitioning between the ‘I’, the ‘We’ and the ‘They’	8
Intersectional reflexivity and an uncomfortable account of researcher privilege	8
Book review: Made to work: Mobilising contemporary worklives	7
Book review: Movements in Organizational Communication Research: Current Issues and Future Directions	7
Homo responsabilis as an extension of the neoliberal hidden curriculum: The triple responsibilization of responsible management education	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
Learning from poor leadership practice	7
The role of networks in shaping entrepreneurial leadership: A longitudinal case study	7
Equitable futures: Afrofuturism’s critical world-building potential for management education	7
Extreme fiction for leadership development	7
Infusing courageous love for universal dignity and environmental response-ability through management education and learning: Inspired By Freire’s dream	7
Flipping the normative: Developing and delivering a critical pedagogy for executive education in a UK business school	7
Looking back, moving forward: Celebrating Management Learning ’s 55 years of publication	7
Can improvisation be paradoxical? Learner positionality and the improvised digital disruption	7
Formative, not extractive: How critically reflexive research makes a difference	7
Longing as learning, learning as longing: Insights and improvisations in a year of disrupted studies	6
Vertical ethnography: Writing the poetics of materiality	6
Toward full inclusion: Understanding individual experiences as epistemic resources in sameness-difference dilemmas	6
Can we do this together? Exploring the transformative potential of care for academic work, labor, and life	6
Demeaning, depriving, and isolating the academic subject: A case study of the degradation of professional autonomy	6
Sex/gender inequity in management learning equals violence towards women	6
Book Review: Menopause Transitions and the Workplace: Theorizing Transitions, Responsibilities and Interventions Vanessa Beck and Jo Brewis (eds)	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
The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics	6
Academic work and imagination: Reflections of an armchair traveler	6
Teaching management in the context of Grand Challenges: A pragmatist approach	5
Who is responsible for responsible business education? Insights into the dialectical inter-relations of dimensions of responsibility	5
Getting into top-ranked management journals from business schools at the periphery: The role of doctoral education and co-authorship	5
(Un)felt ferments: Limning liminal professional subjectivities with pragmatist–posthuman feminism and intimate scholarship	4
Navigating hope and despair in sustainability education: A reflexive roadmap for being with eco-anxiety in the classroom	4
No one deserves professional annihilation: Learning from women’s experiences of leadership work-caused trauma	4
Lived rhythms as a ground for togetherness and learning in hybrid workspace	4
Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning	4
Be(com)ing other-oriented: Mindfulness-trained leaders’ experiences of their enhanced social awareness	4
Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions	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
Irreverent and indisciplined: Outranking management learning amid planetary ruination	4
Peeling the (experiential) onion: A review of the interconnected layers of research on experiential learning in Management Learning between 2010 and 2024	4
Conscientisation and Communities of Compost: Rethinking management pedagogy in an age of climate crises	3
Against mastery: Epistemic decolonizing in the margins of the Business School	3

Power and knowledge negotiations in a collectivity of practice: From peripheralization to epistemological suspicion	3
Book Review: Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives; Entrepreneurialism and Society: Consequences and Meanings	3
Ducks, elephants and sharks: Using LEGO^® Serious Play^® to surface the ‘hidden curriculum’ of equality, diversity and inclusion	3
Addressing “Bullshit” work in neoliberal academia: Tales from an audit experience and a call to action	3
Cooperatives and business schools: Why the disconnect?	3
The courage to teach with compassion: Enriching classroom designs and practices to foster responsiveness to suffering	3
Harnessing chaos: Antifragility’s lessons for management, strategy, and organizational learning	3
Organizational communication: Opportunity or challenge?	3
Advancing book clubs as non-formal learning to facilitate critical public pedagogy in organizations	3
Atmospheres of care, coercion, and containment: An affective ethnography	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
AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools	2
Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire	2
Learning to manage as learning to fail: The lessons of running	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
What’s next? (Un)learning nothingness and non-events in management education	2
Corrigendum to Critical reflection, unlearning, and engagement	2
(De)humanization in the business school: Critical reflection on doctoral experiences	2
Beyond the entrepreneur: A study of entrepreneurial learning from a social practice perspective working with scientists in West Africa	2
“If a (queer) revolt is to come”: Toward a sensuous pedagogy for dis/orienting management learning	2
Gamifying situated learning in organisations	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
Book review: Rethinking Leadership: A New Look at Old Questions	2
The rotten core of In Search of Excellence: Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project	2
‘Dracarys’ for all: TV series and experiential learning	2
Reimagining academic conferences: Toward a federated model of conferencing	2