Doing good, staying capitalist: Business school representations of social entrepreneurship and the commitment to capitalism - Laure Leglise, Emily Cook-Lundgren, 2026 In recent decades, social entrepreneurship (SE) has gained widespread appeal as a way to deliver sustainable social change across sectors. Within business schoo...

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Development of a data warehouse for the assessment of entrepreneurship education - Kassandra A. Papadopoulou, Xin Deng, Robert Phillips, Fatemeh Salehi, Jacob Salder, 2026 Measuring the success of entrepreneurship education is complex and involves several considerations. This measurement problem is often framed as conceptual in pr...

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'Disrupting discourses of age? Exploring the identity work of older digital technology sector professionals' authored by Christine Shukis-Brown and Katrina Pritchard

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Management educators’ identity play - Selen Kars-Unluoglu, Burcu Guneri Cangarli, Arthur Turner, Steve Kempster, Kiran Trehan, 2026 This article critically examines how management educators navigate the certainty–emergence paradox through identity play in their work. Drawing on a 14-month co...

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“Sometimes there’s space . . . and sometimes there’s just not”: (Un)learning from Indigenous students’ experiences of liminal decolonization and Indigenization - Lorna Andrews, Kirsten Robertson, Prac... Post-secondary institutions and the business schools within them have been inhospitable spaces for Indigenous peoples. Changing this pattern requires decoloniza...

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'“Sometimes there’s space . . . and sometimes there’s just not”: (Un)learning from Indigenous students’ experiences of liminal decolonization and Indigenization' authored by Lorna Andrews, Kirsten Robertson, and Prachee Sehgal

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Book Review: 'Watching you, watching me: A review of Michel Anteby’s The Interloper' by Tomi Koljonen

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Silencing the spectacle: A call for critical disengagement from social media in MOS academia - Fernando Vianna, Rafael Alcadipani, Isleide Arruda Fontenelle, 2026

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Provocation essay: 'Silencing the spectacle: A call for critical disengagement from social media in MOS academia' authored by Fernando Vianna, Rafael Alcadipani, and Isleide Arruda Fontenelle

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'Emotional aspects of a planned intervention left behind: Revisiting Change Laboratory as a methodology for change' authored by Marcio Pascoal Cassandre and Bente Elkjaer

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Leisure, hustle and career: Informal skills acquisition in accordion repairing - Arianna Marcolin, Banu Saatçi, Maria Laura Toraldo, Chris Land, 2025 In craft careers, where passion and personal commitment are central, development of skills often crosses the boundary between work and life. Although studies of...

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'Content providers, distance learning, and the neoliberal university: Degrading resistance to the “most humiliating job in academic career”' authored by Fernando Vianna, Egon B Calderari, Francis K Meneghetti, and Sergio P Wanderley

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'Unknowability and enabled wayfinding' authored by Konstantinos Poulis

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A thanks and a farewell - Ajnesh Prasad, Martyna Śliwa, 2025 Presented as individual reflections, we recount some of our experiences in co-editing Management Learning over the last few years. Ajnesh reflects on what he ha...

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Advancing knowledge synthesis in management learning: Literature review assisted by artificial intelligence - Young Chan, 2025 Artificial intelligence is transforming literature review in management learning, offering new opportunities for knowledge synthesis while raising epistemologic...

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Putting the “executive” back in the EMBA: Designing paradox-savvy learning goals for holistic professional development - Pasi Aaltola, Eric H. Kessler, Ari Manninen, 2025 This article seeks to address the professional development of executive MBA students holistically and from the learners’ perspective. The aim is to examine how ...

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Learning into practice shaped by discursive dynamics: Relevance of MBA for experienced managers - Josiane Martin O’Brien, John Eustice O’Brien, 2025 Companies worldwide, including India - site of our field work, invest considerably in management development programs. Still, little is known about how practice...

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Nurturing sympathetic knowing in organizational learning: A pragmatist inquiry in onboarding to high-stress social work - Anne Stouby Persson, 2025 This article develops the notion of sympathetic knowing in organizational learning. Sympathetic knowing consists of inquiry into a problematic situation that is...

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'Spirited away? Tensions in spirituality-and-management education within a business school' authored by Roberta Sferrazzo, Marco Guerci, Marie Holm, PhD, and Gazi Islam

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Book Review: Stinking Rich–The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire - Iain Munro, 2025

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'Learning about artificial intelligence? Cluelessness, courage, and magic in facing a moving target' by Janne Tienari

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I clean dirt but I am not dirty! How emotion caregivers “make sense” in emotional dirty work - Koustab Ghosh, Ayesha Irum, Dheeraj Sharma, 2025 In emotional dirty work, little is known about how emotion caregivers construe meaning out of burdensome emotional demands mandated by their occupation. This st...

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'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

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