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The first volume in a series of threefocuses on myth in everyday organizational life, pertaining to individual actors: heroes and heroines, and the roles they play in organizations. Attitudes and temperaments, as well as professional ethos, are narrated and mythologized to reveal an archetypal dimension of organizing and organizations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction to the Trilogy: Mythologies of Organizational Everyday life
- 1 Louhi, the Mistress of Northland: The Power of the Loner
- 2 Engaged Leadership: living the Myth and Embodying the Legend of the Olympian Athlete
- 3 From Managers to Artists and Priests: On Transformation and Development of Organizational leaders
- 4 The Uncanny Organization Man: Superhero Myths and Contemporary Management Discourse
- 5 From Rags to Riches: A Fairy Tale or living Ethos? Stories of Polish Entrepreneurship during and after the Transformation of 1989
- 6 'I Could Have Been Like lou Barlow, But I'm More Like Ken Barlow': long-Stayers as Heroes or Failures
- 7 Little Johnny and the Wizard of os: The PC User as a Fool Hero
- 8 An Emerging legend of a Kosovar Heroine: Narrating Female Entrepreneurs
- 9 Gender-Content Myths and their Role in Nation Forming
- 10 Adulation, Abandonment and Amputation: Images of Women in Vedic Mythology
- 11 Romanian Socialist Directors: Heroes or Tricksters?
- 12 The Hard-working Hero/ine among Phantoms, Donors and Dark Forces: On Mythical Features in Polish Organizational Imagination
- 13 Mighty McManus: Mystery, Myth and Modernity
- 14 Myth and Charisma as Symbolic Capital: The Case of Architecture
- 15 Paradise Lost: Impartiality of an Arbitrator
- 16 The Film Producer: A Scapegoat orland a Midwife in the Film Making Process?
- 17 The Witchcraft of Professionalism: The Attractiveness of Ideal Types of Professions
- Bibliography
- Index