An aesthetics of displacement: Thomas Pynchon's symptomatology of organization

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 421-436

  Beyes, Timon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capitalist systems; English literature; Fiction; Organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349133233     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810910967189     Document Type: Article

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