ABSTRACT
Science fiction can be seen as a diagnosis of the present, and a vision of possible futures. It therefore provides an excellent resource with which to interrogate both contemporary organizing processes and organizations as institutions. The marginal activity of science fiction has, however, been largely ignored in writing on organization theory. This international collection is the first book of its kind to explore how science fiction can enrich studies of organization by drawing on perspectives across the arts and social sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky*
chapter 1|16 pages
‘Give me your mirrorshades’
part |2 pages
PART II Mirror, mirror*
part |2 pages
PART III Is there in truth no beauty?*
chapter 8|18 pages
Reading Star Trek
chapter 10|17 pages
Of Philip K. Dick, reflexivity and shifting realities
part |2 pages
PART IV The gamesters of Triskelion*