Organizational Epics and Sagas Tales of Organizations [Hardcover]

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.Introduction to Volume 2: The Mythologization of Organization; M.Kostera The Myth of Entrepreneurship; M.Aggestam Living with the Myth of Unattainable Technology; U.Eriksson-Zetterquist Oedipus in the Land of Organizational Darkness; Y.Gabriel ? The Myth of Corporate Size in Public Service Companies  the Case of Toscana Energia SPA; G.Grossi Bureaucrats and Heretics  Gendering Mythology; D.Ericsson? & P.Nilsson ? The?Myth of?the Virtual Organization; K.Thorne Heroic Villains: The Badlands of Economy and Organization; M.Parker ? The Myth of Management as Art, the Management of Art as Myth; K.Lindqvist The Cosmogonic Duel; J.Kociatkiewicz The Pan American Dream and the Myth of the Pioneer; G.Durepos, J.Helms Mills? & A.J.Mills Conclusions

'Monika Kostera has completed an extensive book project of not only one edited volume but altogether three volumes in her trilogy on organizational myths, epics and sagas...[she] has succeeded very well in this endeavor: the trilogy reflects her genuine insights and extensive experience in this field of research. It was a pleasure to read chapters that addressed the themes from many versatile angles yet created a consistent whole, written by authors from many different nationalities and backgrounds...These books are recommended reading for those already familiar with organizational myths and metaphors, but are also very accessible for those less familiar with the mythical side of organizational life. In fact, one wishes that many mainstream management courses, with prevalent modernistic assumptions of rationality and linearity, inherent in mainstream business studies, would include one of these books in theirlC