Open Sesame or Pandora’s Box? Concluding Remarks on Organizing, Archetypes and the Power of Mythmaking

Monika Kostera

Chapter 13 in Mythical Inspirations for Organizational Realities, 2008, pp 163-169 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The three volumes, of which the current is the last one, contain texts lined up according to the main themes that emerged from the collected material: 1. Organizational Olympians: Heroes and Heroines of Organizational Myths focuses on individual actors and their roles. 2. Organizational Epics and Sagas: Tales of Organizations takes up stories of organizations and their mythical features. 3. Mythical Inspirations for Organizational Realities discusses the role of myth in general, as well as mythmaking in organizations and organizational discourse.

Keywords: Organizational Reality; Collective Narrative; Organizational Discourse; Organizational Archetype; Unconscious Meaning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230583597_15

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