From empty speech to full speech? Reconceptualizing spirituality in organizations based on a psychoanalytically-grounded understanding of the self

Human Relations

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1091-1110

  Driver, Michaela ^a  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Lacan; Psychoanalysis; Spirituality in organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744585648     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726705059038     Document Type: Review

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