From Blueprint to Battleground: Four takes on utopia for organization scholars
探讨乌托邦概念为何在组织研究中从边缘走向主流，提出四种视角帮助学者分析组织，旨在引发关于未来组织的及时讨论。
Utopia is moving from the margins to the mainstream in organization studies.An unprecedented wave of publications -including the one this Agora forms part of -refers to it.This raises an obvious question: why and, perhaps more intriguingly, why now?One hypothesis is that this historical moment -marked by exponential technological change, frightening geopolitical instability and escalating climate disruption -compels us to ask what kind of future awaits humanity.And when it comes to thinking about the future, few concepts are more epistemologically apt than utopia.With a contested intellectual tradition, the idea of utopia is evocative and inspiring, ambivalent and often divisive.In this short piece, I want to highlight four broad directions to start thinking about utopia in the analysis of organizations that stem mostly from my research and role as co-founder of an international research network on alternative organizations.The four perspectives I outline here are not a typology.All four can be applied to the same organization as equally fruitful lenses.Think of them as an invite to kick-start a timely conversation.