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From Loss to Lack: Stories of Organizational Change as Encounters with Failed Fantasies of Self, Work and Organization

Western State College of Colorado, Department of Business, Accounting and Economics, Gunnison, CO, USA, mdriver{at}western.edu

This study advances research on storytelling and organizational change by exploring forty stories of change from a psychoanalytic, particularly Lacanian, perspective. It suggests that stories of organizational change serve an important and, to date, under-explored role as creative and empowering encounters with failed fantasies of self, work and organization. Implications for research on storytelling and organizational change are discussed.

Key Words: Lacan • lack • organizational change • psychoanalysis • storytelling

Organization, Vol. 16, No. 3, 353-369 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1350508409102300


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