Lacan and the lack of humanity in HRM

Organization

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 331-344

  Johnsen, Rasmus ^a   Gudmand Høyer, Marius ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anti humanism; Human Resource Management; Humanism; Lacan; Lack

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952404682     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508410363124     Document Type: Article

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