Content written by Mette Vinther Larsen, Allan Næs Gjerding, and Louise Brøns Kringelum and published in the Danish National Research Database
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Extracted Content: Abstract – While executive programmes, including MBA studies, have proliferated in recent years, there has been an increasing focus on how executive teaching contributes to contemporary challenges facing executives in their everyday life as organizational heads. In particular, researchers on management learning have called for a balance between hard and soft skills, practice-oriented reflexivity, and new ways of bridging theory and practice. The present paper answers this call by focusing on how a relational and social construction approach can assist the development of executive programmes in order to accommodate the need for more reflexive practices in the everyday life of the executive. The paper addresses how reflexivity can be supported during MBA programmes, which is demonstrated by a longitudinal experimental effort where the authors of the paper applied seven different management learning practices to a Danish MBA programme.