Apocalyptic Organizing as a Way to Build Better Organizational Worlds

The main aim of this essay is to encourage organizational scholars to engage with the topic of the apocalypse in a more systematic and reflexive way. Indeed, a growing apocalyptic fervor is spreading in organization and management studies (OMS). Nevertheless, scholars have mainly focused so far on the catastrophic implications of the concept of apocalypse, overlooking its creative and generative possibilities. We have thus developed a specific path to help organizational scholars think through the apocalypse. Building on its ambivalent character, we illustrate the possibilities related to speculation, action, and cultural analysis opened up by the apocalypse along with their implications for OMS.