Mindful unlearning in unprecedented times: implications for management and organizations

Mai Chi Vu, Loi A. Nguyen

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Abstract

Crises trigger both learning and unlearning at both intra-organizational and inter-organizational levels. This article stresses the need to facilitate unlearning for effective crisis management and shows how we could use mindfulness practice to enhance unlearning and transformative learning in a crisis. This study proposes the conceptualization of mindful unlearning in crisis with different mechanisms to foster unlearning in three stages of crisis (pre-crisis, during-crisis, and post-crisis). These mechanisms include mindful awareness of impermanence and sensual processing (pre-crisis stage), mindful awareness of interdependence and right intention (crisis management stage), and mindful awareness of transiency and past experiences (post-crisis stage).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)797-817
Number of pages21
JournalManagement Learning
Volume53
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2022
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Crisis management
  • mindfulness
  • unlearning

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