Reflection and Mindfulness in Organizations: Rationales and Possibilities for Integration

Martin Messner, S. Jordan and Albrecht Becker
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Martin Messner: GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
S. Jordan: School of Management - Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck

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Abstract: The notion of reflection has featured strongly in Management Learning in recent years. While there is an important body of knowledge on how organizations can foster reflection-on-action, less seems to be known about how they can promote refl ectionin-action. We suggest that refl ection-in-action is closely linked to the phenomenon of mindfulness and we outline what existing research on mindfulness may teach us about understanding and organizing refl ection-in-action. We believe that integrating the perspectives taken in these two streams of literature is important for a clear understanding of why some organizations seem to learn 'better' than others and why some initiatives to promote reflection and learning are more successful than others.

Keywords: Learning; mindfulness; reflection; routines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-09
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Published in Management Learning, 2009, vol.40, nº4, pp. 465-473. ⟨10.1177/1350507609339687⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/1350507609339687

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