Organizations in a State of Darkness: Towards a Theory of Organizational Miasma

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1137-1152

  Gabriel, Yiannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cleansing; depression; downsizing; organizational pathologies; pollution; psychoanalysis; scapegoating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866947332     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612448154     Document Type: Article

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