“Success ruins everything.”

—  Gerald R. Salancik

Source: Pfeffer, Jeffrey, and Christina T. Fong. "The business school ‘business’: Some lessons from the US experience." Journal of management studies 41.8 (2004): 1501-1520. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christina_Fong2/publication/46540485_The_Business_School_%27Business%27_Some_Lessons_from_the_US_Experience/links/0c96052a604fa4e317000000/The-Business-School-Business-Some-Lessons-from-the-US-Experience.pdf

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American organizational theorist 1943–1996

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