Exploring how social poetics can be used to understand processes of management learning

Mette Vinther Larsen, Charlotte Øland Madsen

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    Abstract

    The purpose of this article is to explore what can be learned about management learning when social poetics is used as a perspective to make sense of how seven leaders, during a year-long top leader competence development course, constructed meaning with each other, with consultants and with researchers about what leading in ‘Cullinan ways’ means. The article is based on a relational constructionism perspective, and we bring in two aspects of social poetics – the notion of metaphors and engaging in reflexive critique – to present and discuss how the understanding and use of the concept ‘Cullinany’ continually changed
    and was reworked based on the conversations the seven leaders had with each other. The purpose of this presentation is to initiate a discussion about how formal management learning programmes can be understood (and possibly also designed) from a perspective in which the ontological and social poetic aspects
    of language are assigned primacy
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalManagement Learning
    Volume47
    Issue number5
    Pages (from-to)489-505
    Number of pages19
    ISSN1350-5076
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 24 Sept 2016

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