Psychotic organization as a metaphoric frame for the socioanalysis of organizational and interorganizational dynamics

Administration and Society

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 588-615

  Sievers, Burkard ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/00953999922019256     Document Type: Article

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