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Contexto: "The practices and attitudes of these leaders, who face critical situations and make life-or-death decisions for themselves and their companions in misfortune, are comparable with situations in the corporate world and provide lessons for business people everywhere."
Fonte: Morgan, G. (1986). Images of organization. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Termo equivalente: desgraça

Definição: "As a description of certain kinds of misfortune, we use the word “accident” in two rather different ways. First, it is used to denote certain kinds of outcome: as a synonym for “injury”, as in “an industrial accident”, or to describe a car crash."
Fonte: Risk and misfortune A social construction of accidents

Definição em português: "infortúnio"