'The Return of the Primal Father' in Postmodernity? A Lacanian Analysis of Authentic Leadership

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1195-1216

  Costas, Jana ^a   Taheri, Alireza ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

authentic leadership; autonomy; control; Freud; Lacan; postmodernity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866921103     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612448157     Document Type: Article

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