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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction to the Trilogy: Mythologies of Organizational Everyday Life
- Introduction to Organizational Epics and Sagas: The Mythologization of Organization
- 1 The Myth of Entrepreneurship
- 2 Living with the Myth of Unattainable Technology
- 3 Goddess: A Story of Myth and Power
- 4 Oedipus in the Land of Organizational Darkness
- 5 The Myth of Corporate Size in Public Service Companies: The Case of Toscana Energia SPA
- 6 Bureaucrats and Heretics: Gendering Mythology
- 7 The Myth of the Virtual Organization
- 8 Heroic Villains: The Badlands of Economy and Organization
- 9 Merging the Myths: A Study of the Effect of Organizational Mythmaking in an Organizational Merger
- 10 The Myth of Management as Art and the Management of Art as Myth
- 11 The Cosmogonic Duel
- 12 The Pan American Dream and the Myth of the Pioneer
- Bibliography
- Index