What Can Psychoanalysis Offer Organization Studies Today? Taking Stock of Current Developments and Thinking about Future Directions

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1105-1120

  Fotaki, Marianna ^a   Long, Susan ^b   Schwartz, Howard S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affect; conceptual inclusivity; organizations; power; psychoanalysis; psychosocial approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866918191     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612448152     Document Type: Article

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