Struggling with Lack: A Lacanian Perspective on Organizational Identity
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Struggling with Lack: A Lacanian Perspective on Organizational Identity
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to research on organizational identity by developing a psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, the author draws on Lacanian theorizing to explore how organizational identity discourse is informed by imaginary constructions of subjectivity. It is proposed that the collective construction of coherent, unitary and definably organizational identity disc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Organization Studies
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0170-8406,1741-3044
DOI: 10.1177/0170840608100516