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TY - JOUR
T1 - In praise of holistic scholarship
T2 - A collective essay in memory of Mark Easterby-Smith
AU - Robinson, Sarah
AU - Contu, Alessia
AU - Elliott, Carole
AU - Gagnon, Suzanne
AU - Antonacopoulou, Elena
AU - Bogolyubov, Pavel
AU - Mary, Crossan
AU - Cunliffe, Ann
AU - Elkjaer, Bente
AU - Graca, Manuel
AU - Kars, Selen
AU - Li, Shenxue
AU - Lyles, Marjorie
AU - Snell, Robin
AU - St Amour, Wayne
AU - Stead, Valerie
AU - Thorpe, Richard
AU - Vera, Dusya
PY - 2022/4/1
Y1 - 2022/4/1
N2 - This collective essay was born out of a desire to honor and remember Professor Mark Easterby-Smith, a founder of the Management Learning community. To do this, we invited community members to share their experiences of working with Mark. The resulting narratives remember Mark as a co-author, co-researcher, project manager, conference organizer, research leader, PhD supervisor, and much more. The memories cover many different aspects of Mark’s academic spectrum: from evaluation to research methods to cross-cultural management, to dynamic capabilities, naming but a few. This space for remembrance however developed into a space of reflection and conceptualization. Inspired by the range and extent of Mark’s interests, skills, experiences, and personal qualities, this essay became conceptual as well as personal as we turned the spotlight on academic careers and consider alternative paths for Management Learning scholarship today. Using the collective representations of Mark’s career as a starting point, we develop, the concept of holistic scholarship, which embraces certain attitudes and orientations in navigating the dialectical spaces and transcending tensions in academic life. We reflect on how such holistic scholarship can be practised in our contemporary and challenging times and what inspiration and lessons we can draw from Mark’s legacy.
AB - This collective essay was born out of a desire to honor and remember Professor Mark Easterby-Smith, a founder of the Management Learning community. To do this, we invited community members to share their experiences of working with Mark. The resulting narratives remember Mark as a co-author, co-researcher, project manager, conference organizer, research leader, PhD supervisor, and much more. The memories cover many different aspects of Mark’s academic spectrum: from evaluation to research methods to cross-cultural management, to dynamic capabilities, naming but a few. This space for remembrance however developed into a space of reflection and conceptualization. Inspired by the range and extent of Mark’s interests, skills, experiences, and personal qualities, this essay became conceptual as well as personal as we turned the spotlight on academic careers and consider alternative paths for Management Learning scholarship today. Using the collective representations of Mark’s career as a starting point, we develop, the concept of holistic scholarship, which embraces certain attitudes and orientations in navigating the dialectical spaces and transcending tensions in academic life. We reflect on how such holistic scholarship can be practised in our contemporary and challenging times and what inspiration and lessons we can draw from Mark’s legacy.
KW - Academic holism
KW - holistic scholarship
KW - management learning
KW - organizational learning
U2 - 10.1177/13505076211032207
DO - 10.1177/13505076211032207
M3 - Journal article
VL - 53
SP - 363
EP - 385
JO - Management Learning
JF - Management Learning
SN - 1350-5076
IS - 2
ER -