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" Organizational olympians : "
edited by Monika Kostera.
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BL
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1045060
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b799430
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Organizational olympians : : heroes and heroines of organizational myths /\ edited by Monika Kostera.
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| Publication Statement
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2008.
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xvi, 220 pages ;; 23 cm
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0230515711
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: 023058358X
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: 9780230515710
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: 9780230583580
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index.
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| Contents
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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 'Orgspawn' Rehn and Marcus 'Analysator' Lindahl -- From rags to riches : a fairy tale or living ehtos? 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 / Elżbieta 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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| Abstract
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This first volume in a series of three focuses on myth in everyday organizational life, anmd pertains 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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Myth.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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carrière (profession)-- leadership-- sport d'élite.
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Företagsorganisation.
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Myter.
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Myth.
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Organisation.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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Symbolism.
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| Dewey Classification
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658.4/09
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HD58.9.O743 2008
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C936clc
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| Added Entry
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Kostera, Monika,1963-
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