What is it about?
We show how experiences of betrayal become fundamentally woven into our expectations of working relationships, through defensive responses to certain kinds of situation. We suggest that friendship is a constantly evolving effort to respond to incipient betrayal, and that friends are doubly important when they help with this inner work of repair and renewal.
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Why is it important?
We show that both friendship and betrayal are constant, ever-present activities / experiences (in which we are both doing and done-to). This is a more subtle and complex appreciation than might be gained from a more linear and transactional assumption that friendships come first and then might be damaged by betrayal. The paper is therefore helpful for people who take seriously the difficulties as well as the pleasures and rewards of meaningful working relationships.
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When writing this paper I had a dream that I recounted to my two co-authors, and it turned out to indicate some of crucial aspects of betrayal and friendship that became central to the paper. I remover the dream very well, and the moment of sharing it with my colleagues - who showed themselves good friends in the way they worked with it.
Prof Jonathan R Gosling
Exeter University
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This page is a summary of: Betrayal and friendship, Society and Business Review, June 2009, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/17465680910965968.
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