Management Learning Journal

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: https://lnkd.in/e_vncAgX

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ANNOUNCEMENT of Management Learning's 2024 Award Winners ?? Please join us in congratulating: Best Paper Award 2024: Russell Warhurst and Kate Black on 'Learning to manage as learning to fail: the lessons of running' Reviewers of the Year 2024 (joint): Maja Korica, and Richard Longman Best Book Review 2024: Giada Baldessarelli BIG congratulations and thank you to all the members of our community who contribute to the flourishing of our journal. https://lnkd.in/edMD67Gu

ONLINE FIRST 'Atmospheres of care, coercion, and containment: An affective ethnography' by Francesco Miele and Silvia Gherardi Read here: https://lnkd.in/es8r3aSC

ONLINE FIRST 'Book Review: The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder' by Vivek Mishra. Read here: https://lnkd.in/eY45QHhE

Wooowww. I am so happy to share that my review of Pink et al.'s #book on #design #ethnography has been awarded the Management Learning Journal "Best Book Review Award 2024" for making a "significant and thought-provoking contribution to the field" ???? Thank you so much to Martyna ?liwa, Ajnesh Prasad, and the whole editorial board for this honor. ???? A special thanks to Caterina Bettin, PhD, for her wonderful guidance as editor ?? Finally, thank you to the members of The Ethnography Atelier, who consistently provide me with the energy and support to appreciate qualitative methods. You can read the review here: https://lnkd.in/dMDtZmmf #qualitativeresearch #bookreview Cc: House of Innovation

For all the times I have said ‘yes’ to reviewing papers when my diary said ‘no’… I deeply appreciate the recognition by Management Learning Journal (which I proudly share with Prof Maja Korica) as Reviewer of the Year 2024. I always feel it is a privilege to be among the first to read authors’ submissions and to help them move towards publication. As a reviewer, I try to embody the values I write about, ensuring that the review process does not replicate the very behaviours I critique in my research. I am grateful to all the anonymous reviewers who have assessed my work, and to those whose names I know (but whose labour often goes unseen) who handle submissions with enthusiasm and care. Thank you, Martyna ?liwa, Ajnesh Prasad, and your editorial team, for sending me so many gems—papers that have changed how I think about specific phenomena and method this year. Now, back to the two reviews I still owe you...

?? Collegiality matters. Decent paper reviewing is part of that. Genuinely surprised to receive news yesterday from Management Learning Journal that I've been selected as their Reviewer of the Year, an honour I'm delighted to share with Richard Longman. Even before genAI, reviewing too often felt frustrating all around. Authors wait for ages, then receive a batch of disparate comments often featuring the undeterred Reviewer 2 being their worst ego self. Reviewers struggle to complete reviews on time (much less constructively) amid everything else on their plate and the continued realization that to the extent reviewing is work, it is certainly not formally recognised or supported work by their employers, so something they end up doing at 9 pm or on weekends. Editors would beg for reviewers to actually accept papers, then pray they'd actually complete them in a way that is helpful, or at least not give them more work as a result. But as someone currently facing a revision deadline in two days and working to meet the feedback of Reviewer 1, which is so extensively detailed (argh!) and so extensively helpful and constructive (yay!), the reality is this system with all its many structural faults is also one where we can be the best of ourselves if we so choose. Where we can practice collegial understanding, careful attention, genuine care. How much of our daily lives in academia feature those? So thank you to my Reviewer 1s, who made all my papers undoubtedly much, much better, to Martyna ?liwa and Ajnesh Prasad for this recognition, and to Mairi Maclean, Paulina Segarra and Cara Reed, who I've loved working with as editors at Management Learning during the last year. I promise to continue to do my best, as a reviewer and a colleague.