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

Article	Citations
“That was easier when we were sitting together”: Managerial work as ordering with place	83
I, strategist	58
With or without you: Career capital development as experienced by MBA alumni	31
Decolonizing research using gamification: The case of Choco	25
Embracing the academic–practice gap: Knowledge collaboration and the role of institutional knotting	22
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies Linda Tallberg and Lindsay Hamilton (eds) TallbergLindaHamiltonLindsay (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Anim	21
Writing a thesis as a story: Or how we learned to stop worrying and love writing	19
Into the realm of organizational folly: A poem, a review, and a typology of organizational stupidity	19
Trojan horses: Creating a positive hidden (extra)curriculum through a Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative	19
A tragic ethics for the Anthropocene: On the unmanageable and impossible in management learning	17
Decolonizing journals in management and organizations? Epistemological colonial encounters and the double translation	16
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
Immigrant academic mothers negotiating ideal worker and mother norms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Duoethnography as a co-mentoring tool for transformative learning	16
Embedding entrepreneurship education in non-business courses: A systematic review and guidelines for practice	16
Making leadership as practice development visible: Learning from Activity Theory	15
Learning about artificial intelligence? Cluelessness, courage, and magic in facing a moving target	13
A thanks and a farewell	13
Book review: Organizational ethnography	13
Organizational learning through character-based judgment	13
We-experiences and the maintenance of workplace friendships: Being workplace friends together	13
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	13
An attempt to become an-Other critical scholar: Bridging as ‘activist performativity’	12
‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy	11
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	11
Towards an aspirational future: Cultivating ontological empathy within the ethos of Management Learning	11

Critical literature reviews: A critique and actionable advice	11
Learning differently	11
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	11
What is Leadership? Reflexive provocation in the business school classroom	11
On forgiveness and letting go	10
Navigating epistemic colonialism in an Indian MBA: Student experience beyond colonial difference	10
Ideology, doxa and critical reflexive learning: The possibilities and limits of thinking that ‘diversity is good’	10
A collaborative autoethnographic journey of collective storying: Transitioning between the ‘I’, the ‘We’ and the ‘They’	9
Intersectional reflexivity and an uncomfortable account of researcher privilege	9
Looking back, moving forward: Celebrating Management Learning ’s 55 years of publication	9
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	9
Vital materiality and its constitution of knowing in craft practice	9
Infusing courageous love for universal dignity and environmental response-ability through management education and learning: Inspired By Freire’s dream	8
The role of networks in shaping entrepreneurial leadership: A longitudinal case study	8
Homo responsabilis as an extension of the neoliberal hidden curriculum: The triple responsibilization of responsible management education	8
Beyond research excellence: A proposal for complementary evaluative practices in management and organisation studies	8
Application of the systemic lessons learned knowledge model to learning in complex projects: How project practitioners are shaping their learning	8
Generative artificial intelligence and learning: At the dawn of Idiocracy?	8
Can improvisation be paradoxical? Learner positionality and the improvised digital disruption	8
Learning from poor leadership practice	8
Flipping the normative: Developing and delivering a critical pedagogy for executive education in a UK business school	8
Participatory (management) learning in the era of digital transformation	8
Formative, not extractive: How critically reflexive research makes a difference	7
Unveiling systemic oppression in business education: Freire’s contribution to our quest for social change	7
Can we do this together? Exploring the transformative potential of care for academic work, labor, and life	7
Extreme fiction for leadership development	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
Organizational learning: Understanding cognitive barriers and what organizations can do about them	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
Demeaning, depriving, and isolating the academic subject: A case study of the degradation of professional autonomy	6
The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics	6
Sex/gender inequity in management learning equals violence towards women	6
Putting the scholar back into scholarship, the researcher into research, the knower into knowing, the entrepreneur into entrepreneurship . . .: A call to interiority	5
Academic work and imagination: Reflections of an armchair traveler	5
Teaching management in the context of Grand Challenges: A pragmatist approach	5
Getting into top-ranked management journals from business schools at the periphery: The role of doctoral education and co-authorship	5
Critical performativity in leadership learning: Curating the critical and normative in a government senior leader apprenticeship	5
Book Review: Menopause Transitions and the Workplace: Theorizing Transitions, Responsibilities and Interventions Vanessa Beck and Jo Brewis (eds)	5
Who is responsible for responsible business education? Insights into the dialectical inter-relations of dimensions of responsibility	5
Collective creativity through a learning lens: Paradoxes of convergence and divergence in an art and theater project	5
Toward full inclusion: Understanding individual experiences as epistemic resources in sameness-difference dilemmas	5
Disidentification as decolonial pedagogic praxis in a Southern business school	5
Lived rhythms as a ground for togetherness and learning in hybrid workspace	4
Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions	4
Navigating hope and despair in sustainability education: A reflexive roadmap for being with eco-anxiety in the classroom	4
Be(com)ing other-oriented: Mindfulness-trained leaders’ experiences of their enhanced social awareness	4
No one deserves professional annihilation: Learning from women’s experiences of leadership work-caused trauma	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
Book Review: Organizational communication: Opportunity or challenge? Dennis K Mumby and Timothy R Kuhn MumbyDennis KKuhnTimothy R, Organizational Communication: A Critic	4
Peeling the (experiential) onion: A review of the interconnected layers of research on experiential learning in Management Learning between 2010 and 2024	4
Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning	4
Developing collective leadership in an online peer learning community	4
Irreverent and indisciplined: Outranking management learning amid planetary ruination	4
Putting the “executive” back in the EMBA: Designing paradox-savvy learning goals for holistic professional development	4
Book Review: Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write SwordHelen, Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Universit	3
Conscientisation and Communities of Compost: Rethinking management pedagogy in an age of climate crises	3
Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire	3
Learning into practice shaped by discursive dynamics: Relevance of MBA for experienced managers	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
AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools	3
Against mastery: Epistemic decolonizing in the margins of the Business School	3
“If a (queer) revolt is to come”: Toward a sensuous pedagogy for dis/orienting management learning	3
Ducks, elephants and sharks: Using LEGO^® Serious Play^® to surface the ‘hidden curriculum’ of equality, diversity and inclusion	3
Learning to manage as learning to fail: The lessons of running	3
Addressing “Bullshit” work in neoliberal academia: Tales from an audit experience and a call to action	3
(De)humanization in the business school: Critical reflection on doctoral experiences	3
Cooperatives and business schools: Why the disconnect?	3
Beyond the entrepreneur: A study of entrepreneurial learning from a social practice perspective working with scientists in West Africa	3
Leisure, hustle and career: Informal skills acquisition in accordion repairing	3
A sense of spacing: Toward a diffractive reading of organizational space	2
Un/learning racism in the business school: Recovering embodiments of the hidden curriculum for re-humanising management education	2
In Praise of Shadows: Exploring the hidden (responsibility) curriculum	2
Book Review: Discovering Organizations BurrowRobin, Discovering Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2025. pp. 1–280. £14.99. ISBN: 9780192663214; ISBN: 9780192847461	2
Challenging the hidden curriculum: Building a lived process for responsibility in responsible management education	2
Turning complexity into a Delight to the Mind : An integrative framework for teaching and learning complex reasoning	2
Provocations: Who, what, where, why and how?	2
What’s next? (Un)learning nothingness and non-events in management education	2
Arts-based methods in business education: A reflection on a photo-elicitation project	2
Decolonising the business and management curriculum: An ontological modesty perspective	2
The rotten core of In Search of Excellence : Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project	2
Ambition in popular business practitioner-oriented discourse: What the heck are we talking about?	2
Sensing: The elephant in the room of management learning	2
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,	2
Nurturing sympathetic knowing in organizational learning: A pragmatist inquiry in onboarding to high-stress social work	2