When inviting contributions to a special issue of this journal titled ‘Management Learning and the Unsettled Humanities’ the guest editors did not simply encourage contributors to explore possibilities ‘for reciprocal integration’ between the two realms. Stressing that ‘the humanities . . . [are] facing a complex crisis on their own’, they stated that ‘the humanities . . . need to be enriched, nuanced, and critiqued through . . . the ideas and perspectives of organisational research’. While we may agree that all is not well in the humanities and share their scepticism towards ‘just prescribing the value of the humanities to ameliorate the ills of management education’, we are less confident that the humanities need management learning as much as we need them. As long as learning and scholarship in management and organisation studies continues to suffer from too much management, we doubt that ‘management education [may help] . . . unsettl[e] . . . the human within the . . . humanistic . . . disciplines’. Rather, students of management and organisation still have plenty to learn from the humanities, not least from its rich portrayal of human lives. It is on this basis we draw the conclusion that the humanities are not our patient.

当邀请对该期刊的一期特刊“管理学习与人文科学”做出贡献时，客座编辑不仅鼓励作者们探索这两个领域之间“相互融合”的可能性。强调“人文”。。。他们说：“人文自身面临着复杂的危机”。。。需要通过充实，细化和批判。。。组织研究的思想和观点”。虽然我们可能会同意人文学科还不是所有人都很好，并且他们对“只是规定人文学科的价值以减轻管理教育的弊端”持怀疑态度，但我们对人文学科需要尽可能多的管理学习感到信心不足。只要管理和组织研究中的学习和学术继续遭受过多的管理，我们就怀疑“管理教育[可能会有所帮助]”。。。unsettl [e]。。。内在的人。。。人文主义的。。。学科。相反，管理和组织的学生仍然可以从人文科学中学习很多东西，尤其是从其丰富的人类生活描绘中。在此基础上，我们得出的结论是人文不是我们的耐心。