Organizational Epics and Sagas: Tales of Organizations

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction to the Trilogy: Mythologies of Organizational Everyday Life....Pages 1-8
Introduction to Organizational Epics and Sagas: The Mythologization of Organization....Pages 9-13
The Myth of Entrepreneurship....Pages 14-25
Living with the Myth of Unattainable Technology....Pages 26-39
Goddess: A Story of Myth and Power....Pages 40-50
Oedipus in the Land of Organizational Darkness....Pages 51-64
The Myth of Corporate Size in Public Service Companies: The Case of Toscana Energia SPA....Pages 65-79
Bureaucrats and Heretics: Gendering Mythology....Pages 80-92
The Myth of the Virtual Organization....Pages 93-104
Heroic Villains: The Badlands of Economy and Organization....Pages 105-117
Merging the Myths: A Study of the Effect of Organizational Mythmaking in an Organizational Merger....Pages 118-130
The Myth of Management as Art and the Management of Art as Myth....Pages 131-141
The Cosmogonic Duel....Pages 142-155
The Pan American Dream and the Myth of the Pioneer....Pages 156-168
Back Matter....Pages 169-196