The goal of this article is to challenge the use of literature as an aesthetic resource in management teaching-learning. The research is based on a multidisciplinary literature review in order to: think about fiction and its role in teaching, articulating fiction with human existence; explore organizational research and the use of literary genres and styles in knowledge production, and discuss about the use of literary texts in teaching through the presentation and discussion of practices using and capitalizing on fiction. Special attention is given to the strategic dimension of teaching activity that uses fiction as an aesthetic resource. The research's conclusion suggests that literary text is a powerful learning resource because it has as primary source accounts and discourse, these being the essence of management. Another conclusion is that the relationship between management and literature translates into a rich strategy, encouraging creativity and discovery as it allows the development of capabilities to feel and to know.
aesthetics; management teaching; learning; literature