Ghostly Futures and Organization Studies (Fleming & Rhodes, 2026) | In Memoriam

English Podcast Start at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Start at 00:30:49Hindi Podcast Start at 00:49:08Danish Podcast Start at 01:02:50ReferenceFleming, P., & Rhodes, C. (2026). Ghostly Futures and Organization Studies. Organization Studies. onlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406261447713‌Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherPodcast Websitehttps://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmitEGOS In memoriam Peter Fleminghttps://www.egos.org/egos/about/in_memoriam_Fleming🎙️👻 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit.Some papers arrive quietly. Others arrive carrying a silence that is impossible to ignore.Today's episode is one of those moments.Before we begin, we pause to remember Dr. Peter Fleming, who passed away in July 2026 at the age of 54. 🌹🕊️ We offer our deepest respect and our sincere condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, students, and the global academic community. His voice challenged complacency. His scholarship questioned power. His kindness shaped generations of researchers. Though he is no longer with us, his ideas continue to speak.Today we turn to Ghostly Futures and Organization Studies, a remarkable collaboration between Peter Fleming and Carl Rhodes, published online in Organization Studies, one of the world's most prestigious journals, recognized on both the emeritus FT and ABDC A* journal lists. 📚✨This is not a paper about ghosts in the ordinary sense. It is about the futures that never arrived. The futures we quietly abandoned. The futures we fear are already waiting for us.The authors ask us to imagine organizations as places haunted not only by memories but also by possibilities. Some futures have been lost. Others have been denied. Still others appear on the horizon like approaching storms. Together they shape how people work, hope, hesitate, and sometimes surrender. 👥⏳As I read this paper, I found myself thinking about every unfinished project, every abandoned reform, every promise that once felt within reach. Organizations often tell us to look ahead. Yet Fleming and Rhodes remind us that looking ahead can also fill us with disappointment, fatalism, or even despair. And perhaps the most unsettling realization is this. Sometimes the future controls the present long before it ever arrives.There is something deeply moving about reading these words now. They feel both intellectually daring and quietly personal. They remind me that scholarship can outlive the scholar. A thoughtful idea continues its journey even after its author has taken leave.So, as we begin today's conversation, I leave you with a question. 👀💭What if the greatest force shaping our organizations is not the past we remember, but the future we have already stopped believing in?🙏 Our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Peter Fleming, Professor Carl Rhodes, Organization Studies, and SAGE Publications for this profound and thought provoking contribution to organizational scholarship.🎧 If you enjoy conversations like this, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, and our YouTube channel, Weekend Researcher. You can also find us on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcasts. Your support helps us keep important research alive, one conversation at a time. 🌟📖