Expecting the unexpected in Management Learning
这篇社论探讨了“古怪”一词的含义,试图将其重新定义为具有批判和反思潜力的术语,以挑战管理知识学习研究中关于“正常”与“异常”的假设。
In this editorial we seek to explore the meaning of quirkiness and, through this, to embrace the possibilities that such a positioning affords. In so doing, we follow a tradition of reclaiming words that have formerly been used to subjugate or undermine, such as ‘queer’, and using them to ‘question dominant foundational assumptions about what is “normal” and what is “abnormal”’ (Rumens and Tyler, 2016: 225). By attempting to unsettle what is considered ‘normal’ in the study of management knowledge and learning, we endeavour to reclaim the word ‘quirky’ as a term with critical, reflexive potential.