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Reflection and Mindfulness in Organizations: Rationales and Possibilities for Integration

University of Innsbruck, School of Management, Austria, Silvia.Jordan{at}uibk.ac.at

Martin Messner

HEC School of Management, France, messner{at}hec.fr

Albrecht Becker

University of Innsbruck, School of Management, Austria, Albrecht.Becker{at}uibk.ac.at

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 reflection-in-action. We suggest that reflection-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 reflection-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.

Key Words: learning • mindfulness • reflection • routines

Management Learning, Vol. 40, No. 4, 465-473 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609339687


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