After all, there would be no point in winning The paradox, for Jim Webb,53 was how to retain the advantages of this technocracy without eclipsing democracy. It was a world of harmonious organization, managed by wise and well-qualifiedĮlders who would eradicate the problems that beset humanity in its Earth-bound dark ages. Launch pads connected by freeways and telephones. ![]() Space age was an age of mass organisation, of new products that saved time, of automated factories and paperless offices and The coupling of “space age” and “management” combines this modernity with a particularly technocratic sense of control. Effectively, it meant something like “modern”, with connotations of being streamlined, efficient and fashionable. At that time, “space age” was a prefix that was being applied ![]() School of Business, Columbia University, which were published under the title Space Age Management the next year, but before the first Moon landing of July 1969. In 1968, James Edwin Webb, the ex-administrator of NASA, delivered a series of McKinsey Foundation lectures at the Graduate Works of science fiction have offered extremely varied representations of innovation and organizations. Despite the fact that technology is often seen by science fiction as the source of apocalypse, several studies show how science fiction can be used in a constructive design process. Academic literature on science fiction and innovative technology illustrates a paradox. The chapter presents a focused review of academic literature on science fiction. Multiple types of protagonists have deliberately or not participated in the work of structuring and legitimizing the genre. Science fiction belongs to popular culture. This chapter situates and defines science fiction. It has gradually developed according to a rejection of social organizations that were contemporary to them, ranging from the hardest capitalism to radical bureaucratic and socialist planning. Dystopia is a subcategory of the science fiction genre. Science fiction has historically been built on the basis of a fascination with science, technological progress and innovation. We conclude that the study of organizations as sites of discourse production is a fruitful area for further research drawing attention to the implications for change by revealing the importance not only of the ‘localized’ aspects of discourse but also the discursive character of analyses of ‘the past’. Using critical hermeneutics (Prasad and Mir 2002), discourse analysis (Phillips and Hardy 2002), and archaeo-genealogical historiography (Rowlinson 2004), we examined the implications for organizational management and the study of organizational and management history. Pan Am was studied because of its role in the development of the US space program its prominence as a major international company and the availability of an extensive archive of company materials. New Public Management) within organizations (Thomas and Davies 2004) rather than on the role of organizations in the production of discourses. While much has been written on discourse (Phillips and Hardy 2002) there have been few applied studies, and they tend to focus on the reproduction of discourse (e.g. ![]() ![]() The study arises out of our interest in the role of the organization in the development of discourse (Foucault 1979). This article analyses the role of Pan American Airways (Pan Am) in the shaping of the ‘Space Age’.
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