Complexity at the “edge” of the basic-assumption group

The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations: Integrating the Group Relations Approach, Psychoanalytic, and Open Systems Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 91-114

  Stacey, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429483387-5     Document Type: Chapter

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