Claus Springborg

Copenhagen Business School

Art-based methods are increasingly used to facilitate meta-level learning in management education. Such increased use suggests that these methods are relevant and offer a unique contribution, meeting a need in today’s management education. Yet, the literature is not clear on what this unique contribution is, even though it abounds with suggestions...

In this article I explore the idea that leadership as art is characterized by leaders staying with their senses, rather than drawing on yesterday’s sense-making, and by sense-making being received through the senses rather than produced through an analytical process. Two simple models illustrating these opposing processes are suggested, showing how...

Dancers are increasingly seeing their art as a form of research. This is reflected in the development of new techniques, dance notation, and ever-expanding choices of topics that dancers deal with through their performances. Consequently, dance has become a treasure chest for researchers. In this chapter, I present a range of ideas for how elements...

This book explores the role of art and spiritual practices in management education. It takes recent developments in cognitive science relating to the metaphorical and embodied nature of cognition as its starting point. Introducing the concept of ‘sensory templates’, Springborg demonstrates how managers unconsciously understand organizational situat...

This chapter contains a description of the kind of managerial problems the book deals with, the audience the book is written for, and the author’s background. The managerial problems the book deals with are those, which persist year after year, which are unaffected by tips and tricks provided by colleagues and books, and which are immune to the MBA...

This chapter explains how the traditional nexus of foreign direct investments (FDIs) and multinational enterprises (MNEs) has paved the way for the emergence of global value chains (GVCs), and how the new nexus of FDIs, MNEs, and GVCs, and the resultant internationalization of production, investment, and trade have been transforming global economy...

This chapter contains descriptions of nine real life cases taken from research carried out at Cranfield School of Management. The cases illustrate how changing the sensory templates managers use to understand everyday situations can change a situation from a severe and seemingly unsolvable organizational problem to a relatively simple situation the...

This chapter deals with using the concept of sensory templates to enhance methods in management education drawing on religious and spiritual doctrines and practices. The chapter focuses, in particular, on using the concepts of virtues and vices in management education. Cultivation of virtue is important for managers as a means of preventing human v...

This chapter contains concrete practices for working with sensory templates called Somatic-Linguistic Practices. They are based on developing somatic awareness and on attention to language. They can be used in conjunction with art-based methods and spiritual-based methods—or on their own. Some of these aim directly at changing the sensory templates...

This chapter focuses on newer empirical research and theoretical developments in cognitive science, which suggests that cognition is largely metaphorical and embodied in nature. That cognition is metaphorical and embodied means that managers understand important managerial phenomena, such as “power," “decision-making," and “motivation” in terms of...

This chapter contains a presentation of several psychological theories and descriptions of seminal pieces of research upon which these theories are founded. Together these theories show that managers are often unaware of what assumptions govern their actions, that becoming aware of and evaluating these assumptions through double-loop learning can i...

This book explores the role of art and spiritual practices in management education. It takes recent developments in cognitive science relating to the metaphorical and embodied nature of cognition as its starting point. Introducing the concept of ‘sensory templates’, Springborg demonstrates how managers unconsciously understand organizational situat...

Teachers and consultants increasingly use art-based interventions (ABIs) to facilitate manager learning. However, there is little understanding of the mechanisms through which ABIs produce learning outcomes of value to organizations. This theoretical paper addresses this concern by revisiting the philosophy of art and education in light of developm...

Higher education today needs to teach skills relevant to the world of today. In recent years, the ability to co-create has been seen as increasingly important due to the growing complexity of our interconnected and quickly changing world (Leclercq, Hammedi, & Poncin, 2016; Nahi, 2016; Prahalad & Ramaswamy, 2004). Whereas co-creation skills, thus, m...

The word dance does not only refer to an art form. It also refers to culturally shaped bodily practices, which have been used for a broad range of purposes from socialising to therapeutic exploration. Being at once art form, social practice, and tool for exploration and discovery, dance has many interesting applications in organizational developmen...

Although art-based methods are increasingly used in management learning interventions (Taylor & Ladkin, 2009) there is little understanding about the means by which these methods foster particular learning outcomes. This conceptually- based paper addresses this concern through revisiting the philosophy of art and education (Arnheim, 1969; Dewey, 19...

Within the last 10-15 years, art-creation and art-appreciation processes have been used more extensively in management education (Nissley, 2002a, 2002b; Taylor & Ladkin, 2009) to facilitate the development of leaders’ knowledge about phenomena, such as, leadership (Wicks & Rippin, 2010), service (Bathurst, Sayers, & Monin, 2008), and visioning, imp...

Arts-based methods are increasingly used to facilitate meta-level learning in management education. Such increased use suggests that these methods are relevant and offer a unique contribution meeting a need in today’s management education. Yet, the literature is not clear on what this unique contribution may be even though it abounds with suggestio...