Making the absent subject present in organizational research.
This study explores how researchers engage with research subjects. Specifically, it examines the struggle to account for the lived experience of subjects under study while producing knowledge about and for them. Drawing on psychoanalytic, specifically Lacanian, theorizing, the study suggests that su...
| Publicado en: | Human Relations Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 731 - 753 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2016
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