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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
With or without you: Career capital development as experienced by MBA alumni	97
I, strategist	29
Decolonizing research using gamification: The case of Choco	25
Embracing the academic–practice gap: Knowledge collaboration and the role of institutional knotting	22
“That was easier when we were sitting together”: Managerial work as ordering with place	22
Writing a thesis as a story: Or how we learned to stop worrying and love writing	21
Trojan horses: Creating a positive hidden (extra)curriculum through a Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) initiative	21
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies Linda Tallberg and Lindsay Hamilton (eds) TallbergLindaHamiltonLindsay (eds), The Oxford	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 tragic ethics for the Anthropocene: On the unmanageable and impossible in management learning	18
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	16
Learning about artificial intelligence? Cluelessness, courage, and magic in facing a moving target	15
A thanks and a farewell	15
We-experiences and the maintenance of workplace friendships: Being workplace friends together	15
Communicatively constructing resilience in public education organizations: Invoking a bigger purpose and growth mindset messaging	14
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	14
Watching you, watching me: A review of Michel Anteby’s The Interloper Based on: AntebyMichel, The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field. Princ	14
‘Maybe one way forward’: Forging collective collegiality in the neoliberal academy	14
Organizational learning through character-based judgment	14
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	13
An attempt to become an-Other critical scholar: Bridging as ‘activist performativity’	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	13
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

Learning differently	12
What is Leadership? Reflexive provocation in the business school classroom	12
On forgiveness and letting go	12
A decolonising approach to Practice Theories in management and organisation studies	12
Application of the systemic lessons learned knowledge model to learning in complex projects: How project practitioners are shaping their learning	11
The role of networks in shaping entrepreneurial leadership: A longitudinal case study	11
Vital materiality and its constitution of knowing in craft practice	11
Homo responsabilis as an extension of the neoliberal hidden curriculum: The triple responsibilization of responsible management education	11
Intersectional reflexivity and an uncomfortable account of researcher privilege	11
Flipping the normative: Developing and delivering a critical pedagogy for executive education in a UK business school	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
Looking back, moving forward: Celebrating Management Learning ’s 55 years of publication	10
Learning from poor leadership practice	10
Generative artificial intelligence and learning: At the dawn of Idiocracy?	10
Infusing courageous love for universal dignity and environmental response-ability through management education and learning: Inspired By Freire’s dream	9
Participatory (management) learning in the era of digital transformation	9
Can improvisation be paradoxical? Learner positionality and the improvised digital disruption	9
Unveiling systemic oppression in business education: Freire’s contribution to our quest for social change	9
Extreme fiction for leadership development	9
Formative, not extractive: How critically reflexive research makes a difference	9
Equitable futures: Afrofuturism’s critical world-building potential for management education	8
Creating a lean mind-set: Change of practice towards early treatment	8
Vertical ethnography: Writing the poetics of materiality	8
Beyond research excellence: A proposal for complementary evaluative practices in management and organisation studies	8
Sex/gender inequity in management learning equals violence towards women	7
Organizational learning: Understanding cognitive barriers and what organizations can do about them	7
Longing as learning, learning as longing: Insights and improvisations in a year of disrupted studies	7
The weaponization of plagiarism accusations in the era of anti-woke politics	7
Every little action counts: How cognitive, affective, relational, and agentic (micro-)practices support academic micro-transformation	6
Toward full inclusion: Understanding individual experiences as epistemic resources in sameness-difference dilemmas	6
Demeaning, depriving, and isolating the academic subject: A case study of the degradation of professional autonomy	6
Can we do this together? Exploring the transformative potential of care for academic work, labor, and life	6
Book Review: Menopause Transitions and the Workplace: Theorizing Transitions, Responsibilities and Interventions Vanessa Beck and Jo Brewis (eds)	6
Getting into top-ranked management journals from business schools at the periphery: The role of doctoral education and co-authorship	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
Finding the lacuna : Centering student learning	5
Secular discernment: A process of individual unlearning and collective relearning	5
Critical performativity in leadership learning: Curating the critical and normative in a government senior leader apprenticeship	5
Collective creativity through a learning lens: Paradoxes of convergence and divergence in an art and theater project	5
Academic work and imagination: Reflections of an armchair traveler	5
How do inclusive leaders emerge? A theory-based model	5
Lived rhythms as a ground for togetherness and learning in hybrid workspace	5
Putting the scholar back into scholarship, the researcher into research, the knower into knowing, the entrepreneur into entrepreneurship . . .: A call to interiority	5
Fostering divergent thinking in management education: A five-stage model of student case writing	5
Developing collective leadership in an online peer learning community	5
Disidentification as decolonial pedagogic praxis in a Southern business school	5
Must editors be political activists?	5
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

Against mastery: Epistemic decolonizing in the margins of the Business School	4
Cooperatives and business schools: Why the disconnect?	4
Book Review: Organizational communication: Opportunity or challenge? Dennis K Mumby and Timothy R Kuhn MumbyDennis KKuhnTimothy R, Organizational Communication: A Critic	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
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
Development of a data warehouse for the assessment of entrepreneurship education	4
No one deserves professional annihilation: Learning from women’s experiences of leadership work-caused trauma	4
Scaling up and scaling down: Improvisational handling of critical work practices during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Conscientisation and Communities of Compost: Rethinking management pedagogy in an age of climate crises	4
Learning into practice shaped by discursive dynamics: Relevance of MBA for experienced managers	4
Ducks, elephants and sharks: Using LEGO^® Serious Play^® to surface the ‘hidden curriculum’ of equality, diversity and inclusion	3
Book Review: Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write SwordHelen, Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Universit	3
(De)humanization in the business school: Critical reflection on doctoral experiences	3
Beyond the entrepreneur: A study of entrepreneurial learning from a social practice perspective working with scientists in West Africa	3
Challenging the hidden curriculum: Building a lived process for responsibility in responsible management education	3
Book Review: Discovering Organizations BurrowRobin, Discovering Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2025. pp. 1–280. £14.99. ISBN: 9780192663214; ISBN: 9780192847461	3
Atmospheres of care, coercion, and containment: An affective ethnography	3
Learning to manage as learning to fail: The lessons of running	3
“If a (queer) revolt is to come”: Toward a sensuous pedagogy for dis/orienting management learning	3
Decolonising the business and management curriculum: An ontological modesty perspective	3
Nurturing sympathetic knowing in organizational learning: A pragmatist inquiry in onboarding to high-stress social work	3
The rotten core of In Search of Excellence : Reflections on the tainted legacy of the excellence project	3
Leisure, hustle and career: Informal skills acquisition in accordion repairing	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
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
Politicizing and humanizing management learning and education with Paulo Freire	3
Turning complexity into a Delight to the Mind : An integrative framework for teaching and learning complex reasoning	3
In Praise of Shadows : Exploring the hidden (responsibility) curriculum	2
Un/learning racism in the business school: Recovering embodiments of the hidden curriculum for re-humanising management education	2
What’s next? (Un)learning nothingness and non-events in management education	2
Learning through games: Facilitating meaning-making in online exchanges	2
Book Review: Poetry and Organizing: Perspectives on the Uses and Value of Poetry in Organization Studies IlariaBoncoriMonikaKosteraEmmanouelaMandalaki, P	2
Provocations: Who, what, where, why and how?	2
Diversity and stratification of international authorship and knowledge production in published management and business research	2
Doing good, staying capitalist: Business school representations of social entrepreneurship and the commitment to capitalism	2
Employing memories of biopolitical racism for consciousness raising across time and space	2
A sense of spacing: Toward a diffractive reading of organizational space	2
Ambition in popular business practitioner-oriented discourse: What the heck are we talking about?	2
Teaching social innovation through place-based learning: Facilitating perspective sharing in co-creating social value	2
Rescuing the Princess: How phronetic wisdom was learned and deployed on Britain’s railways	2
That’s political! A Freirean perspective towards coaching as a social practice	2