Death and the City

On Loss, Mourning, and Melancholia at Work

von Susan Martha Kahn

200 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Organisational collapse is part of our vernacular. Enron, Woolworths, Lehman's, Bank of America, Rover, BOAC, Northern Rock - these failures are part of our cultural experience of work. At a time when working lives are often vulnerable and organisational mortality is under threat from technology and the economy the consequences of organizational death are worthy of attention. Organisations can face many different endings - sharp and brutal, premature, or carefully planned and premeditated - all these endings have emotional collateral damage. We are working in an environment where crises, failure, and demise are everyday features. Death and the City provides an in-depth portrait of an organisation in a palliative state. It transports the analytic concepts of mourning and melancholia and of the death drive into the workplace, and brings this important, but under explored, stream of psychoanalytic thought to the fore as a means of interrogating and further understanding organisational life. .

• Themen: Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Finanzen, Betriebswirtschaft und Management Betriebswirtschaft und Management Organisationstheorie und -verhalten
• ISBN: 9781782203544
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2017
• Größe: 228 x 154 mm
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis