Academy of Management Learning and Education


Academy of Management Learning and Education is an academic journal sponsored by the Academy of Management. It covers management-related teaching, learning, and the management of business education. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2018 one-year impact factor is 3.274, ranking it 56th in the category "Management" and 11th in "Education & Educational Research". The 2018 5-year impact factor is 4.902.

Editors

The founding editor-in-chief was Roy Lewicki. The following editor was James R. Bailey. J. Ben Arbaugh was the third editor. Kenneth G. Brown finished his term in December 2014. The fifth editor was Christine Quinn Trank. She finished her term in December 2017. The current editor is William M. Foster. He is the first Canadian to edit the journal. His term ends December 2020

Controversy

The journal generated a great deal of controversy by publishing several articles by scholars like Jeffery Pfeffer, Henry Mintzberg, and Sumantra Ghoshal, that were critical of the efficacy of MBA education. Other controversial publications include a critique of journal rankings and a critique of self-assessments as an assessment for learning.