Imagining Hope in Organizations: From Individual Goal-attainment to Horizons of Relational Possibility

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Carlsen, Arne ^a   Hagen, Aina Landsverk ^a   Mortensen, Tord F ^a  

^a SINTEF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agency; Hope; Imagination; Narrative; Phenomenology; Pragmatism; Relational possibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925002706     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0022     Document Type: Chapter

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