The Leviathan of Rationality: Using Film to Develop Creativity and Imagination in Management Learning and Education

Ventriloquial Authority in Management Learning and Education: A Communication as Constitutive of Learning and Education Perspective

“…The Unfolding Practice of MLE Studies that consider the use of visual media in the classroom, especially cases featuring notable individuals, have tended to uncritically assign authoritative influence to a single person's presence or to the implied power of a particular medium (Fee and Budde-Sung, 2014;O'Connell, McCarthy and Hall, 2004;Tejeda, 2008). In contrast to this, more critical considerations have been offered of how visual media exert influence over MLE, often in ways that are easy to pass over (Ayikoru & Park, 2019;Bell, Panayiotou & Sayers, 2019;O'Doherty, 2020). For example, Ayikoru and Park (2019) are concerned with critically assessing the role of documentary films in undergraduate management education.…”

“…Previous research (Ayikoru & Park, 2019;Bell et al, 2019;O'Doherty, 2020) has highlighted some of the shortcomings of visual media. This means that students need help to resist the clear temptation to relate to films and videos shown in class in the same way they watch films and videos as entertainment.…”

“…Our illustrations demonstrated this in two different ways. That textbooks are predominantly managerialist in tone (Errington & Bubna-Litic, 2010) and convey a propaganda type quality (Cameron, et al, 2003) (Ayikoru & Park, 2019;Bell, et al, 2019;O'Doherty, 2020) by showing how authored conversational directions of travel are established when students watch a film or video. The importance of orchestrating moments when the preferred trajectory of a film can be interrupted and questioned was demonstrated, this avoids the danger of passive student learning (and passive educator teaching) and results in students' voices becoming active in the learning process.…”

Three-Phase Model

“…Leaders could zoom in on details in the operation, but it is better to zoom out and to see in what phase the company is. The model helps leaders to navigate from a strategic executive level, recently coined by Damian O’Doherty as the “go-pro perspective” (O’Doherty, 2020 ). Becoming “go-pro” helps to see and delimit the contours of situations, including related risks and responsibilities.…”

Slow design‐driven innovation: A response to our future in the Anthropocene epoch

“…The Anthropocene, a term created by Nobel Prize winner Professor Paul Crutzen, describes the period of time during which human actions have had a drastic effect on the Earth and its ecosystem (Zalasiewicz, Williams, Haywood, & Ellis, 2011), on climate and on the very evolution of the geological strata (Steffen, Crutzen, & McNeill, 2007; Steffen, Grinevald, Crutzen, & McNeill, 2011). Our modes of production and consumption have led to this new epoch, and its consequences require us to urgently rethink the business system, before it is too late (Scranton, 2015) and, indeed, management learning and education (Gasparin et al, in press; O'Doherty, in press). Many organizations including Greenpeace, the Green Parties and the United Nations have for decades been calling for actions to fight climate change.…”