Media Review: Extrapolations-A View from OS4F

As we draw inexorably closer to a two – and, more likely to a three – degree Celsius rise in global temperatures above pre-industrial levels, we, as members of OS4Future[i] feel increasingly compelled to raise awareness of the reality of the climate crisis. This topic has only recently gained more widespread attention by management researchers, drawing attention to questions of climate justice, problematizing short-term market incentives and the pressures for business as usual, or proposing prefigurative and more sustainable forms of organizing. Nonetheless, organization scholars, with few exceptions (e.g., Dentoni, 2024), still do not seriously entertain the possibility of severe disruption. This is a collective failure of imagination that requires different modalities besides scientific reports in order to convey the urgency of the situation.