Organizational Olympians

Edited by Monika Kostera

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Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-58358-0
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Chapters in this book:

Introduction to the Trilogy: Mythologies of Organizational Everyday Life

Monika Kostera

Introduction to Organizational Olympians: Heroes and Villains of Organizational Myths

Monika Kostera

Louhi, the Mistress of Northland: The Power of the Loner

Iiris Aaltio

Engaged Leadership: Living the Myth and Embodying the Legend of the Olympian Athlete

Elena P. Antonacopoulou

From Managers to Artists and Priests: On Transformation and Development of Organizational Leaders

Dorota Bourne

The Uncanny Organization Man: Superhero Myths and Contemporary Management Discourse

Alf Rehn and Marcus Lindahl

From Rags to Riches: A Fairy Tale or Living Ethos? Stories of Polish Entrepreneurship during and after the Transformation of 1989

Małgorzata Ciesielska

‘I Could Have Been Like Lou Barlow, But I’m More Like Ken Barlow’: Long-Stayers as Heroes or Failures

Yvonne Guerrier

Little Johnny and the Wizard of OS: The PC User as a Fool Hero

Dariusz Jemielniak

An Emerging Legend of a Kosovar Heroine: Narrating Female Entrepreneurs

Lena Olaison

Gender-Content Myths and their Role in Nation Forming

Elzbieta Pakszys

Adulation, Abandonment and Amputation: Images of Women in Vedic Mythology

Sumohon Matilal

Romanian Socialist Directors: Heroes or Tricksters?

Mihaela Kelemen and Dirk Bunzel

The Hard-working Hero/ine among Phantoms, Donors and Dark Forces: On Mythical Features in Polish Organizational Imagination

Katarzyna Wolanik Boström

Mighty McManus: Mystery, Myth and Modernity

Tony Watson

Myth and Charisma as Symbolic Capital: The Case of Architecture

Alexander Styhre and Mats Sundgren

Paradise Lost: Impartiality of an Arbitrator

Joanna Jemielniak

The Film Producer: A Scapegoat or/and a Midwife in the Film Making Process?

Marja Soila-Wadman

The Witchcraft of Professionalism: The Attractiveness of Ideal Types of Professions

Karin Jonnergård

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