Changing the Memory of Suffering: An Organizational Aesthetics of the Dark Side

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 279-302

  Sørensen, Bent Meier ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

abject; abjection; art; kitsch; Nazi holocaust; organizational aesthetics; subjection; witnessing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894046075     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613511930     Document Type: Article

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