The sublime object of corruption – Exploring the relevance of a psychoanalytical two-bodies doctrine for understanding corruption

Ethics and Organizational Practice: Questioning the Moral Foundations of Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 199-213

  Lennerfors, Thomas Taro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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