From loss to lack: Stories of organizational change as encounters with failed fantasies of self, work and organization

Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-369

  Driver, Michaela ^a  

^a WESTERN STATE COLORADO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lacan; Lack; Organizational change; Psychoanalysis; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249168930     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508409102300     Document Type: Article

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