Purpose: This paper aims to reflect on how Lacanian psychoanalysis might inform management studies, and discuss limitations and consequences of adopting this particular framework for doing research in organizations. Design/methodology/approach: The authors integrate existing literature on the...

This short reflective paper discusses collusion from a psychoanalytically informed social psychological perspective. From this perspective, collusion represents a non-conscious group dynamic in which the participants "play together" to keep a threatening or painful reality out of awareness. To...