Journal of Management Inquiry: Generative Curiosity

journal of management inquiry - generative curiosity generative curiosity provides a venue that welcomes and rewards curiosity so that scholars can present ideas that stimulate future scholarly activities in expansive, not reductionist, ways. in keeping with the section’s title, we are particularly interested in ideas that stimulate management scholarship. we invite scholars and practitioners to identify a new or ignored fact, phenomenon, pattern, event, or other issue of interest, and to draw it to the attention of others. in doing so, we hope to stimulate inquiries that (a) improve our understanding of how organizations work and how they can be made more effective (ashforth, 2005); (b) develop and disseminate knowledge that matters to organizations and society (alvesson & sandberg, 2013); and (c) address the human condition (van aken & romme, 2009). ultimately, we wish to generate management inquiries that are not just about “what is,” but also “what can be” (aguinis & v