Provocations: Who, what, where, why and how?

The ‘Provocations Essay’, formerly ‘Provocations to Debate’, was a section of the journal conceived eight years ago, ‘. . . to provide a forum for essay-like, polemical writing on important and topical issues concerning management learning, education and knowledge in organisations’ (Brewis and Bell, 2020: 533). With new Editors-in-Chief and a new Provocations Editor coming on board since the publication of the last editorial on the ethos of this section, now is an opportune time to pause and reflect on what it has achieved, where it has evolved and the plans for its future direction.