Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Malmö University

This article discusses how problem-based learning combines with what I from Nietzsche call “becoming who you are”. It argues against thinking of problem-based learning merely as a method that integrates theory and practice. Using Foucault’s genealogy and Arendt’s notion of storytelling as theoretical anchor points, I suggest that problem-based lear...

The purpose of this chapter is to reflect upon the challenges that future strategic challenges pose to human resource development (HRD). The purpose is furthermore to elaborate how narrative and storytelling can help understand and tackle these challenges. Finally, the purpose is to identify some storytelling methods for strategic HRD. The chapter...

This paper addresses calls for developing eco-centric approaches to sustainable management learning that challenge the anthropocentric technocratic foci of established models. A growing concern is that despite declarations of climate emergencies, programs making a sustainable turn perpetuate rather than challenge the status-quo. A key issue is that...

Organizational storytelling has been taught for many years in many different places as part of organizational development, organizational change, organizational learning, and business ethics. There has not been any comprehensive framework that addresses sustainability in organizations and so this book develops a new ethics of sustainability for man...

This chapter turns towards conceptualizing storymaking. This is positioned in relation to Arendt’s map of the human condition that consisted of the activities of labor, work, and action as well as the notion of natality. I develop storymaking through Bennett’s term vital materialism. It allows escaping the human-centeredness of Arendt’s map and emp...

What is the Terrestrial and how does it change the ethics and politics of sustainability? This chapter engages with the ethical and political questions that arise when we ontologically recompose humans into terrestrials. The Terrestrial is introduced as a new actor in a politics of sustainability that also involves other political attractors such a...

This chapter introduces the concept of storymaking as managing for sustainability in organizations. Storymaking is conceptualized as entailing processes of care for maintaining, preserving and repairing the world. Through the case of plastics, storymaking is presented as a countermovement to dominant power relations expressed in Benjamin’s metaphor...

The stories of sustainability are important for how we try to manage it. While stories are inherently multiple and therefore messy, there are more or less powerful stories that attract attention when sustainability is translated into practice. These more or less powerful stories crystallize in the formulation of more coherent narratives enacted in...

Because Arendt argued that stories are where life and thought become one, we need to explore her notion of thinking. This chapter argues that, for Arendt, thinking involved continuous conversations with our conscience. Living truthfully is to live in harmony with this travel partner. Arendt believed that thinking could cultivate conscience and crea...

While the last chapters discussed storymaking as a temporal, spatial, and material practice, there is a need to attune more carefully to Arendt’s notion of story itself and to elaborate on its existential, political, and ethical implications. This chapter discusses this notion from the idea of living life as a story. It is argued that this is a lif...

This chapter summarizes the discussions in this book in seven principles that together constitute a philosophy of management as storymaking. Rather than a model for managing, the seven principles are part of a conceptual apparatus for thinking through problems concerning managing for sustainability. The seven principles are not stages in managing a...

An important part of an ethics of sustainability in management is to find new concepts and reframe old ones to map, understand, and question managing from a new terrestrial reality of vital materialism. This chapter suggests using concepts like place, space, materiality and rhythm to inform managing. Storymaking is seen as a temporal, spatial, and...

The Emerald Handbook of Authentic Leadership is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection, opening the black box of leadership authenticity to advance understanding of theory and practice. It presents a wide-ranging, diverse source of new concepts, theories, insights, applications to advance thinking and practice in leadership and leadership a...

Based upon Hannah Arendt's notion of action as storytelling and Butler's rework of Arendt's notion into an embodied and material performance, this paper proposes a material-performative storytelling approach to authentic leadership. Stories are expressions of authenticity to the extent that they disclose who people are and create what Arendt called...

Based upon Hannah Arendt's notion of action as storytelling and Butler's rework of Arendt's notion into an embodied and material performance, this paper proposes a material-performative storytelling approach to authentic leadership. Stories are expressions of authenticity to the extent that they disclose who people are and create what Arendt called...

The tensions between academic capitalism and ethical subjectivation in universities are discussed in Chapter 5 through the contrast of two different types of stories about the university. The first is the university as a ‘moral concentration camp’, where research and education are part of biopolitical neoliberalism and its valuations of worthy/unwo...

This chapter discusses why identity is important in relation to human resource development. We develop our notion of identity through discussing the concepts narrative and living story in relation to a theory of reality construction. This theory of reality construction consists of facts, logic, values and communication. We argue that balancing narr...

This book offers an analysis and critical interrogation of the contemporary crisis of higher education. On the one hand, this crisis manifests itself in the partial unmaking of the institutional form of the university that emerged from European medieval centres of scholarship, their globalisation through Western imperialism, and the temporary succe...

Introduction Storytelling is important in organisations. For Hannah Arendt, storytelling captures the process by which we reconfigure our inner thoughts, emotions and opinions for public appearance. Through storytelling, we express who we are as opposed to what we are (Arendt, 1998). At a deeper level, storytelling confirms that we are agents who m...

Leadership education has become a billion-dollar business and is a popular field among researchers and students in universities. Multiple debates about what leadership is and how to perform it flourish. In a recent debate book, Anders Örtenblad (2018) has collected contributions that debate whether leadership should be a profession. Jørgensen and S...

Purpose In accordance with Latour, this paper aims to respond to the call for a “down-to-earth” post-learning organization approach to sustainability, which is critical of Senge’s conception of learning organization (LO). Design/methodology/approach “Gaia storytelling” is used to define a LO that is “down-to-earth”. Findings Gaia is understood th...

Drawing on Foucault’s writings on power, neoliberalism, and the dispositive, this article analyses the identity politics that is immanent in a new collaborative practice between the public and private sector called public- private innovation (PPI). We argue that PPI is an element in actualizing a neoliberal market dispositive through inclining subj...

INDLEDNING Dette kapitel udfolder en tilgang til lederudvikling, som er inspireret af Hannah Arendts begreb om fortaellingen (Arendt, 1998). Argumentet er, at fortaellingen er en central del af al lederudvikling, da fortaellinger er den måde, hvorigennem vi omformer en sekvens af haendelser til en sammen-haengende historie. Dette er den gaengse måd...

Purpose: In accordance with Latour, this paper responds to the call for a "down-to-earth" post-learning organization approach to sustainability, which is critical of Senge's conception of learning organization (LO). Approach: "Gaia storytelling" is used to define a learning organization that is "down to earth." Findings: Gaia is understood throu...

This chapter is inspired by Latour's suggestion that Gaia has taken centre stage in politics. Universities are therefore submitted to a climatic regime which demands responsibility. Inspired by Arendt, this chapter suggests a storytelling framework for teaching sustainability in management education. Storytelling is seen as a means for 'emplacing'...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Dewey’s notions of experience, inquiry and reflection can increase managers’ capacity to cope with sustainability transitions. Design/methodology/approach Problem-based learning is discussed as an approach for enabling sustainable management learning. Dewey’s concepts of experience, inquiry and r...

The chapter argues for a storytelling framework for sustainable problem-based learning (PBL). An important aspect of PBL is to learn how to be responsible and answerable. Such competences can only be learnt if students interact with the world. This ethical purpose is, however, often forgotten in PBL rhetoric. We propose to address this. The 17 UN d...

The argument here against entrepreneurship discourse is that it is used for transforming environmental and social problems into new market opportunities and to deregulate and cut back on support for people in precarious positions. We argue that these transformations destroy or promote unjust modes of entrepreneurship. Furthermore, entrepreneurship...

Purpose: To develop a transdisciplinary approach called eco-business modelling. Design Methodology Approach: The first step is an analysis of the ways triple bottom line and circular economy emplotments have colonized and co-opted the United Nations and European Union Agenda 2030 initiatives by privileging business-as-usual scenarios. The second...

Universities have, in recent decades, been submitted to neoliberal forms of governance, which have turned universities into corporations that have to act strategically in relation to market demands. A side effect is that academics are increasingly subject to market pressure in terms of what kinds of judgments and truths they produce. This has put a...

Drawing on Arendt’s work, this article develops a storytelling account of subjectivity and politics in organizations. Storytelling is understood as the process through which actors reconstruct their experiences and appear in a collective space. Storytelling is thus enacted within and from spaces and is a means for political action. Three theoretica...

Med plast som case beskæftiger denne artikel sig med, hvordan vores økonomi kan transformeres til en bæredygtig økonomi. Casen handler om indsamling og genanvendelse af plastik og blev undersøgt som en del af projektet Ren Kystlinje. Det er artiklens hensigt at diskutere og problematisere de politikker for plastaffaldshåndtering, som er formuleret...

Denne særudgave af Samfundslederskab i Skandinavien sætter fokus på nye ledelsesformer, innovations- og organiseringsmodeller, som er tilknyttet begrebet samfundslederskab. Anvendelsen af begrebet samfundslederskab fremfor blot at benytte begrebet lederskab indebærer en interessant udvidelse af, hvad ledelse og organisering er i det 21. århundrede....

1. Hvordan kan storytelling bidrage til baeredygtig virksomhedsudvikling? Storytelling betragtes som den proces, hvorgigennem en serie af haendelser omdannes til en historie eller fortaelling og udtrykker den foran andre (Arendt, 1998, Young-Bruehl, 1977). Storytelling er et bud på meningsdannelse og handling, fordi det er igennem storytelling, at...

"This chapter contains a critical analysis of the learning organization (LO). As part of this agenda, we also explore the possibilities of a more desirable future for LO. LO is an approach which has evolved in the last three decades in many different directions. It is neither homogeneous, nor unambiguous. Rather, LO has become increasingly plural,...

This chapter contains a critical analysis of the Learning Organization (LO). As part of this agenda, the possibilities for a more positive agenda for LO are also explored. The chapter introduces a political perspective in which LO is seen as part of power relations that produce particular types of learning. From this perspective we move to Foucault...

Affective subjectivation is a notion that describes the processes by which academics are inclined to turn themselves into manageable subjects within the context of precarious academic life. Based on three fictional, realistic stories, three topics are discussed: precaritisation in academia as an organisation and the relationship between managers an...

This paper develops an ethical framework of leadership learning from Hannah Arendt’s writing. The intention is to identify important principles of a framework of leadership leading that help empower actors to lead themselves and to engage, interact, influence and inspire others through their appearances. It is argued that true leadership learning i...

Affective subjectivation is a notion that describes the processes by which academics are inclined to turn themselves into manageable subjects within the context of precarious academic life. Based on three fictional, realistic stories, three topics are discussed: precaritisation in academia as an organisation and the relationship between managers an...

Based on Hannah Arendt's distinctions between thinking, action and judgment this paper develops a framework for leadership development. Leadership and leadership development are approached from a political perspective, which implies emphasizing the collective, relational and material aspects of leadership. Leadership is defined as the collective ac...

With the growing demand to use pedagogical approaches to foster 21st-century skills such as problem solving, creativity, critical thinking, collaborative learning and innovation, problem-based learning (PBL) has been the pedagogical approach chosen by many educational institutions. However, moving from traditional teaching to PBL demands an organis...

Table: Future ethics spaces of entrepreneurship. From the chapter Ethics perspective of entrepreneurship

Table: Three ethical perspectives on entrepreneurship from the chapter Ethics of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs are often praised for their contributions to the development of economic life. Yet little is known about the ethics of entrepreneurship. This is problematic since many ethical problems of socie-ty and business life become visible in the life and actions of the entrepreneur. Many successful busi-ness leaders that started out as entrepr...

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to provide a framework for reflecting on how different ways of configuring spaces in higher education (HE) condition the possibilities of learning. Second, the purpose is to construct a storytelling approach for the configuration of such spaces. Design/methodology/approach The paper’s conceptual purpose is ach...

Based on the concepts self-formation and phronesis (practical wisdom), this chapter argues against professionalizing leadership. Professionalization implies rules, guidelines, procedures and accreditation standards in relation to contents, curricula and the pedagogy of education. It thus misconceives the role of leadership education to be only a qu...

Based on an integrative approach to practical wisdom and theoretical knowledge, the chapter proposes a bachelor program on leadership based on four somewhat controversial propositions: First, theoretical learning is relevant only to the extent that students have opportunities for applying theoretical knowledge in practice. Second, relevance is crea...

This paper constructs a storytelling framework for understanding how people enact their subjectivities in organizations. Storytelling is presented as the practical ways in which subjectivities are made within a dispositive. Dispositive is Foucault’s concept for where power becomes concrete. It captures the ways spaces of appearance in organizations...

This article constructs a framework for studying power through stories in education. Stories are presented as the practical ways in which subjectivities are made within a dispositive, which is theorized as where power becomes concrete. Stories serve two paradoxical roles. They actualize power but are also where power is resisted. The human subject...

This paper discusses ethics in management education from Arendt’s notion of action. Action is for Arendt disclosed in storytelling and other artful expression whereby people make their appearance in the world as distinct human beings with passions, feelings, intentions and voices. Stories are collective, situated, embodied and material. They are wh...

This article constructs a framework for studying power through stories in education. Stories are presented as the practical ways in which subjectivities are made within a dispositive, which is theorized as where power becomes concrete. Stories serve two paradoxical roles. They actualize power but are also where power is resisted. The human subject...

This volume brings together analyses of governmentality from different angles in order to explore the multiple forms, practices, modes, programmes and rationalities of the ‘conduct of conduct’ today. Following the publication of Foucault’s annual lecture series at the Collège de France, scholars have attempted to critically rethink Foucault’s ideas...

Dette kapitel beskæftiger sig med fortællinger og historier som analysebegreber for organisatorisk læring. Vi tager afsæt i to antagelser. Den første er, at praksis bliver gjort meningsfuld igennem de historier og fortællinger, der skabes om den. Når der tales om læreprocesser af enten kontinuerlig eller radikal karakter er det som oftest direkte r...

This article presents the idea of mapping organizational learning as a way of doing organizational ethnography. It suggests that organizational learning is a (re)assemblage of human and non-human and material and immaterial forces that reverberate in networks of lived stories. Mapping is suggested as a process of collecting and writing about lived...

Perhaps the most important reason for doing organizational ethnography is the simple reason of giving corporate subjects the possibility of speaking. Agency is granted to the people who through their interwoven actions create the social patterns that we call organizations. Organizations are not the results of some narratives that reside inside pers...

While organizations have become central for thinking and structuring contemporary social action, existing perspectives on what they are and how to deal with them are still rooted in modern ideas about the foundations of society. The chapters in this volume take critical narrative inquiry — inspired by postmodern or post-human approaches to organiza...

The chapter is concerned with the conditions of storytelling in organizations. More specifically, we explore the conditions for the creation of subjectivity in an era where the development of management rationalities (dispositifs) has reached new heights. The question posed is how this affects the possibilities for the creation of the ‗I‘. We devel...

Karen Barad‘s post-humanist agential realist account of mattering has far reaching implications for understanding intentionality, memory, and learning in organizations. We argue for a diffractive methodology of material storytelling to organizational learning as an alternative to how narrative and storytelling approaches deal with this issue. Organ...

In this chapter, we look at learning portfolios as a way of working with the self. Our case study is management education with a particular focus on the acquisition of negotiation skills. Three issues are addressed: The first relates to how the learning portfolio works to systematize the experiences and the goals of students through the stories tha...

This chapter presents an approach to management education that we frame as a ‗multivoiced classroom‘. It describes an approach to education founded on a storytelling ethics approach, and which implicates educating managers as agents of transformation towards a better or more ethical society. Our approach is based on four pillars: (1) storytelling o...

In this opening chapter, we describe the purposes of the book and put the chapters of the book into a broader context and in relation to each other. This includes an initial discussion of the notion of 'critical narrative inquiry' and different ways of approaching a critique of narrative in organizational research. We then describe the organization...

We tell the story of a strategy development process in a small psychology consulting company where we applied storytelling as our basic methodological tool. We explore and discuss the possibilities and challenges in applying such an approach, and tell the story of how the process evolved and how we tried to solve the challenges that we encountered...

This book contains chapters on education leadership, management and governance in relation to schools in South Africa supplemented with a chapter on gender issues in Zimbabwe. It has been fifteen years since a new Constitution dawned, which promised a society based on the people of South Africa, that recognized the injustices of the past and would...

This chapter presents a postcolonial storytelling theory of organizational learning. ‘Living Story’ is used as the central concept to develop an alternative understanding of organizational learning. This understanding takes into account the multiple, diverse cultures and identities that are embedded and differentiated in the multiplicity of stories...

Material storytelling is used here to denote a material-discursive understanding of technology, and how technology works in organizations in terms of story performance. The idea is that technology configures organizations in spatial, temporal and material terms. We are inspired by Karen Barad’s work in quantum physics in developing the term materia...

This book aims to encourage students and academics out of their comfort zones by offering the first comprehensive overview that encompasses all the constituent components of HRD, allowing the reader to clearly separate concepts within the field and provide a meaningful basis for detailed discussion and debate. This book serves as a comprehensive in...

In this article, we resituate a long-standing duality of (Western) narrative tradition over living story emergence and more linear narrative. Narrative, with its focus on linear beginning, middle and end coherence, retrospection and monologic, is too easily appropriated into managerialist projects. We focus on the web of living stories as a Derridi...

Denne artikel handler om sammenhængene mellem sprog og identitet i relation til forandringer i organisationer. Jeg bruger en kortlægning af disse sammenhænge som udgangspunkt for at identificere og diskutere centrale nutidige ledelsesudfordringer og ledelsesproblematikker, som forholdet mellem identitet og organisatorisk forandring rejser. Argument...

We propose in this article to take a story approach to organizational analysis. This implies that organizational life is perceived as polyphonic, equivocal, dialogical, unfinished and unresolved. We describe this approach as antenarrative inquiry in that it seeks to question established truths and moralities embedded in the narratives of the presen...