I first met Jim March in early 1994, when I was on sabbatical leave at Copenhagen Business School. He was on his way in to Scandinavia (his figurative second home), while I was on my way out to give a talk in England. We nonetheless found a way to meet for an invigorating talk (for me at least) at his hotel on the Copenhagen harbor. My, what a lively talk, so early in the morning, and one that led me to label Jim as a “gentle provocateur,” in the best sense of that term—as someone who provokes you to think differently, just by the way he or she thinks, talks, acts, and lives his or her life. It is a term that has always held meaning for me, and why I chose “Provocations and Provocateurs” many years ago as the title for this section of JMI. This issue’s section is devoted, quite appropriately, to honoring Jim March’s influence on so many of us. I have edited this section since its inception in 2005. Jim wrote one of the first essays for me, using parts of Yeats’ (1996) poem, Easter 1916, to demonstrate that poetry could best express the doubt, paradox, and contradiction that were usually absent from descriptions of managing. He argued convincingly and provocatively that a poem could best explore the ambiguities, ambivalences, and paradoxes “of living in multiple worlds and experiencing multiple feelings, and of recognizing the role of ugliness in the creation of beauty” (March, 2006, p. 70). As a way of giving voice to the person as the focus of this tribute section, I thought it would be appropriate to quote directly from a portion of that evocative little essay, because the words capture one of the key themes of Jim’s way of living life so well. Here then is Jim in his own words—words that resonate so well with the theme of “A Scholar’s Quest” (March, 2003a), a version of the commentary he gave upon his retirement, and which is reprinted here. Jim’s fine words in his 2006 essay convey poetry’s marvelous ability to capture what the stilted language we so often use cannot1:

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纪念吉姆·马奇的“挑衅和挑衅者”特别部分

我第一次见到 Jim March 是在 1994 年初，当时我正在哥本哈根商学院休假。他正在去斯堪的纳维亚（他的第二故乡）的路上，而我正在去英国做演讲的路上。尽管如此，我们还是找到了在他位于哥本哈根港的酒店进行一次振奋人心的谈话（至少对我而言）的方式。我的，多么生动的谈话，这么早，让我给吉姆贴上“温和的挑衅者”的标签，在那个词的最好意义上——作为一个激发你不同思考的人，顺便说一句，他或者她思考、谈话、行动和过着他或她的生活。这是一个对我来说一直很有意义的术语，也是我多年前选择“挑衅和挑衅者”作为 JMI 这一部分的标题的原因。本期的部分非常恰当地致力于纪念吉姆·马奇对我们许多人的影响。自 2005 年该部分成立以来，我一直在对其进行编辑。吉姆使用叶芝 (1996) 诗歌《1916 年复活节》的部分内容为我写了第一篇文章，以证明诗歌可以最好地表达那些曾经出现过的怀疑、悖论和矛盾。通常在管理描述中不存在。他以令人信服和挑衅的方式论证说，一首诗最能探索“生活在多个世界和体验多种感受，以及认识到丑在创造美中的作用”（2006 年 3 月，第 70 页）的歧义、矛盾和悖论。 ）。作为表达这个致敬部分重点的人的一种方式，我认为直接引用那篇令人回味的小文章的一部分是合适的，因为这些话抓住了吉姆生活方式的一个关键主题那么好。这里是吉姆用他自己的话来说——这句话与“学者的探索”（2003 年 3 月 a）的主题产生了很好的共鸣，这是他退休时发表的评论的一个版本，在这里重印。吉姆在 2006 年的文章中用优美的文字传达了诗歌的奇妙能力，可以捕捉到我们经常使用的生硬语言所不能做到的1：