What Management Learning Means to Me: Questioning the Un-Questioned
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2019Source
Management LearningIssue
50th anniversary editionGoogle Scholar check
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I first encountered Management Learning when, several years ago, as a junior academic with a doctorate from a School of Education, I was presenting a paper on a conference panel chaired by one of the journal’s associate editors. Feeling as an ‘outsider’ in the field of management and organization studies, I was eagerly searching for an ‘intellectual home’ in which I could, at the very least, feel comfortable with my discomfort. The chair encouraged me at that time to send my presented work to Management Learning but also urged me to question beforehand ‘what I was seeing and why I was seeing it.’ That unsettling yet beautiful process which required ‘self-reflexivity’ rather than ‘meta-reflexivity’ (Cunliffe, 2002: 36) is what led me, eventually, not just to a re-understanding of my work— and self— but also to a community and a home. It is from this perspective that I am writing this reflection on ‘what Management Learning means to me’ to celebrate the journal’s 50th anniversary, having had the privilege of being a reviewer, an author and an associate editor for the journal.