Concept information
Preferred term
organizational taboos
Definition
- A taboo is a social prohibition against a particular act, object, word, or subject. Originating in social anthropology, the idea of taboo has had a small but significant influence on studies of organization through the cultural turn of the 1980s, in which issues of symbolism came to the fore in organizational analysis. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Organizational Taboos]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/organizational_taboos
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