The dream that caused reality: The place of the Lacanian subject of science in the field of organization theory

Organization

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 395-411

  Woźniak, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaze; Metatheory; Objet petit a; The imaginary; The Other; The real; The symbolic; Voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952338168     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508410363121     Document Type: Article

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