Organizational healing: Lived virtuousness amidst organizational crisis

Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 13-33

  Powley, Edward H ^a   Cameron, Kim S ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis; Interpersonal Connections; Liminality; Organizational Healing; Qualitative Research; Virtuousness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007860850     PISSN: 14766086     EISSN: 1942258X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14766080609518609     Document Type: Article

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