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Re-creating Engagement in Managerial Learning

Authors

GATARIK Eva BORN Rainer

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Human affairs
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Web https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/humaff-2018-0001/html
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2018-0001
Keywords engagement; best practices; narrative fallacy; managerial learning; knowledge creation management; Language-Information-Reality (LIR) scheme of analysis
Description When defending his doctoral dissertation, Umberto Eco was accused of narrative fallacy because he presented his research as if it were a detective novel. He should have presented only his conclusions. However, this criticism inspired Eco to claim that “[e]very scientific book should be ... the report of a quest for some Holy Grail” (Eco, 2011, p. 7). A quest presupposes engagement on both sides of the knowledge exchange. Building upon our own research, we have produced a model-theoretic scheme for management studies in support of the practicability of Eco’s claim. The idea is to re-create the engagement when establishing problem-solving competence in managerial learning: We start with an analysis of real-life cases of successful managerial problem solving (“best practices”). Next, we attempt to find the common denominator of those successful solutions. Lastly, we instantiate the principles found in the previous step in new problem situations, and thus provide new uses for them.

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