Friendship and organization: Learning from the western friendship tradition

Management and Organizational History

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-272

  French, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethics; Friendship; Hexis (state of mind disposition); Levels of friendship; Parrhesia (frankness of speech)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009636724     PISSN: 17449359     EISSN: 17449367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744935907084013     Document Type: Article

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