@article {6446,
	title = {Deconstructing Lack: A Buddhist Perspective on Egocentric  Organizations},
	journal = {Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry},
	volume = {10},
	year = {2012},
	month = {2012},
	pages = {17-27},
	abstract = {This paper advances the Buddhist insight of {\textunderscore}no-self{\textquoteleft} as a foundation for theorizing the phenomenon of lack, and how such a sense of lack is symptomatic of a more fundamental and primary repression: a fear of no-self, or egolessness. Egocentric organizations depend on the reproduction of collective lack and underlying ontological insecurity, which manifests as a desire to be real, enduring, and self-existent. Egocentric organizational dynamics bind anxiety by channeling {\textunderscore}reality projects{\textquoteleft} which feed compulsive desires for power, territory and control. The Buddhist perspective offers a liberative path as a counterforce to dominant egocentric organizational narratives. Rather than accepting lack as cultural condition, the Buddhist path focuses the mind directly on the source of lack, which, paradoxically is a gateway to seeing through the delusion of the egocentric self.},
	issn = {1532-5555}
}
