Organizational epics and sagas : tales of organizations

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Author:

Kostera, Monika, 1963-

ISBN:

9780230515772

Publication Information:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.

Physical Description:

xvi, 196 p. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

The myth of entrepreneurship / Maria Aggestam -- Living with the myth of unattainable technology / Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist -- Goddess : a story of myth and power / Monica Lee -- Oedipus in the land of organizational darkness / Yiannis Gabriel -- The myth of corporate size in public service companies : the case of Toscana Energia SPA / Giuseppe Grossi -- Bureaucrats and heretics : gendering mythology / Daniel Ericsson and Pernilla Nilsson -- The myth of the virtual organization / Kym Thorne -- Heroic villains : the badlands of economy and organization / Martin Parker -- Merging the myths : a study of the effect of organizational mythmaking in an organizational merger / David Sims -- The myth of management as art and the management of art as myth / Katja Lindqvist -- The cosmogonic duel / Jerzy Kociatkiewicz -- The Pan American dream and the myth of the pioneer / Gabrielle Durepos, Jean Helms Mills and Albert J. Mills.

Subject Term:

Organizational sociology.

Organizational behavior.

Added Author:

Kostera, Monika, 1963-

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Summary

The second volume in a series of three focuses on organizational virtues and vices, as well as abilities of organizations, and legendary organizations that have become mythical in themselves. These narratives are presented as organizational sagas to reveal an archetypal dimension of organizing and organizations.