Organizational Turbulence, Trouble and Trauma: Theorizing the Collapse of a Mental Health Setting

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1153-1173

  Fischer, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

intersubjectivity; psychoanalysis; social constructionism; transitional space; trouble; turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866889356     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612448155     Document Type: Article

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