Organizational epics and sagas : tales of organizations
- Title
- Organizational epics and sagas : tales of organizations / edited by Monika Kostera.
- Published by
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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- Description
- xvi, 196 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The second in a trilogy on myth making in our organizational lives, this title explores organizational virtues and vices, and organizational sagas, to reveal an archetypal dimension of organizations.
- Subject
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-185) and index.