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ONLINE FIRST Book Review: 'Discovering Organizations' by Jenna Pandeli Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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A thanks and a farewell In this editorial, Ajnesh Prasad and Martyna Śliwa offer their personal perspectives on co-editing Management Learning over the last few years. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Writing a thesis as a story: Or how we learned to stop worrying and love writing' authored by Tracy Trägårdh and Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Advancing knowledge synthesis in management learning: Literature review assisted by artificial intelligence' authored by Young Chan Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Putting the “executive” back in the EMBA: Designing paradox-savvy learning goals for holistic professional development' authored by Pasi Aaltola, Eric H. Kessler, and Ari Manninen Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST ‘Learning into practice shaped by discursive dynamics: Relevance of MBA for experienced managers’ authored by Josiane Martin O’Brien and John Eustice O’Brien Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Nurturing sympathetic knowing in organizational learning: A pragmatist inquiry in onboarding to high-stress social work' authored by Anne Stouby Persson Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Spirited away? Tensions in spirituality-and-management education within a business school' authored by Roberta Sferrazzo, Marco Guerci, Marie Holm, PhD, and Gazi Islam Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ONLINE FIRST 'What is Leadership? Reflexive provocation in the business school classroom' authored by Nicole Ferry and Eric Guthey Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ONLINE FIRST 'Developing collective leadership in an online peer learning community' authored by Katie Elizabeth Green Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST Book Review: 'Stinking Rich–The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire' by Iain Munro Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ONLINE FIRST Book Review: 'Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis' BY Paul Haynes Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our September Issue is now available! To read more, access here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/MLQ/curr...

ONLINE FIRST 'Learning about artificial intelligence? Cluelessness, courage, and magic in facing a moving target' by Janne Tienari Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST 'I clean dirt but I am not dirty! How emotion caregivers “make sense” in emotional dirty work' by Koustab Ghosh, Ayesha Irum, and Dheeraj Sharma Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ONLINE FIRST “That was easier when we were sitting together": Managerial work as ordering with place by Claudia Manca, Lucia Crevani, Viviane Sergi, and Lena Lid Falkman Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST 'A decolonial feminist contribution to management studies: Introducing Maya women’s communitarian organising' by Jennifer Manning Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ONLIE FIRST Book Review: 'But. . . How Do You Teach Business? A Critical Examination of the Methods, Ideology and Influence of Business and Management Studies and Business Schools' by Cristina Galalae Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ONLINE FIRST Book review: 'Organising Responses to Climate Change: The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering' by Manuel F. Ramirez Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ONLINE FIRST Book Review: 'Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write' by Gabrielle Durepos Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ONLINE FIRST Book Review: 'What Do Corporations Want? Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, and a New Theory of The Firm' by Ari Kuismin Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Management Learning editorial dinner at the Academy of Management #AOM2025! 🥳🥂

ONLINE FIRST Book review: ‘The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory’ reviewed by Oliver Laasch and Vitor Lima Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Disidentification as decolonial pedagogic praxis in a Southern business school' by Nandita Roy and Nimruji Jammulamadaka Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ONLINE FIRST 'Amplifying the uncomfortable: Learning through embodied experience and reflexive conversation' by Paul Fin Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

ONLINE FIRST 'Generative artificial intelligence and learning: At the dawn of Idiocracy?' by Michal Izak, Amon Barros, Ajnesh Prasad, and Martyna Śliwa Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST Book review: 'Catholic Social Doctrine and Open Marxism' by David Jacobs review of 'Marx in Management and Organisation Studies: Rethinking Value, Labour and Class Struggles' and Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

ONLINE FIRST 'Application of the systemic lessons learned knowledge model to learning in complex projects: How project practitioners are shaping their learning' by Xebiso Blessing Kamudyariwa, Oluyomi A Osobajo, Adekunle Oke and Yetunde Adebayo Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST Book Review: 'Look for foundations of sea-worn granite' by Michał Zawadzk reviewing Monika Kostera's 'The University of Hope' Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Metaphors of symbiosis: What science fiction movies reveal about human-AI imaginaries' by Mike Molesworth, Georgiana Grigore, Chris Miles, and Vassilis Charitsis Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Potentiating reflexive practice: Turning the gaze towards the academic’s reflexivity' by Peter Daly and Mette Vinther Larsen Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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ONLINE FIRST 'Adapting to learn and learning to adapt: How professional service firms organize for ambidextrous learning' by Anna Jonsson, Charlotta Kronblad, and Frida Pemer Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST Book review: 'Charismatic Leadership in Organizations: A Critique of Texts' by Todd Bridgman Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST ‘Lost futures’ and undermined pasts of the pandemic: Digital lecturers’ ghostly reflections of time, self and the university by Fran Myers, Hilary Collins and Hayley Glover Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST Provocation Essay: '(Re)discovering connection and community: A call to move beyond the ‘normalization of disconnection’ by Amy L Kenworthy, Sophia Opatska, and Yulia Vintoniv Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Cooperatives and business schools: Why the disconnect?' by Olga Kuznetsova, Martin Parker, and Andrei Kuznetsov. Read Here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Decolonising the business and management curriculum: An ontological modesty perspective' by Martyna Śliwa, Stephanie Decker, Amon Narciso de Barros, Kingsley Omeihe, and Ajnesh Prasad. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🔊 NEW AEs ANNOUNCEMENT A very special welcome to our new Associate Editors, Monika Kostera and Farooq Mughal who are joining ML editorial team today! Welcome to the team! 🎉

ONLINE FIRST 'Toward full inclusion: Understanding individual experiences as epistemic resources in sameness-difference dilemmas' by Janet Zhangyan Johansson, Annette Risberg, and Malin Kvitvær Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Vital materiality and its constitution of knowing in craft practice' by Mixue Li, Jeannie Holstein, and Volker Wedekind Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ONLINE FIRST 'Ambition in popular business practitioner-oriented discourse: What the heck are we talking about?' by Masoud Shadnam, Charles Keim, and Marko Orel Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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