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Researchers in organizational studies privilege the relationship to primary data in the conduct of their research; knowledge can only be produced a priori on an accessible real. In this sense, fiction in its various forms can at best only claim to illustrate organizational phenomena, insofar as it cannot postulate the status of knowledge. Suggesting that scientific knowledge is of equivalent value to fictional knowledge, and after having raised different issues around the relationship between fact and fiction, our article examines the different scopes of fiction for the understanding of organizational phenomena.