What's playing in the organizational theater? Collusive relationships in management

Human Relations

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 745-773

  Kets De Vries, Manfred F R ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Controlling collusion; Deux; Folie ; Identification with the aggressor; Leadership behavior; Narcissistic collusion; Paranoid collusion; Projective identification; Sadomasochistic collusion; Superior subordinate relationship; Transference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040441736     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001872679905200604     Document Type: Article

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