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Organizational Olympians: Heroes and Heroines of Organizational Myths by Monika Kostera 9780230515710

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The first volume in a series of three focuses on myth in everyday organizational life, pertaining 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.

IIRIS AALTIO is Professor at the University of Jyvaskyla and Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. ELENA ANTONACCOPOULOU is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK. DIRK BUNZEL has studied in Germany and Australia and after researching the Future of Work in Scottish call centres and software firms, Dirk has been lecturing at Keele University in England since 2001. MALGORZATA CIELSIELSKA is a doctoral student at the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). She graduated in management and marketing (MA with honors) from the School of Management of Warsaw University (Poland) in 2003 DOROTA BOURNE has worked on research projects that addressed international knowledge transfer, the idea of the built-in quality, a difference between organizational image and identity and the application of the Personal Construct Psychology in business YVONNE GUERRIER is Professor of Organization Studies and Dean of the School of Business and Social Sciences at Roehampton University, UK DARIUSZ JEMIELNIAK is Assistant Professor of management at Kozminski Business School (Poland) and a visiting researcher at Cornell University (2004-2005), Harvard University (2007) and University of California Berkeley (2008), USA JOANNA JEMIELNIAK is an Assistant Professor at Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Warsaw, Poland KARIN JONNERGARD is Professor in corporate governance and management control at the University of Vaxjo and also connected to the University of Lund. She is research leader at the Forum for Research on Professions, Vaxjo University and the member of the research group Corporate Entrepreneurship and Governance MIHAELA KELEMEN is Professor or Management Studies at Keele University, UK. MARCUS LINDAHL is Assistant Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden MONIKA KOSTERA is Ordinary Professor in Management, Professor at Vaxjo and Warsaw Universities SUMOHON MATILAL is a doctoral student in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Management, at the University of Essex, UK LENA OLAISON is a doctoral candidate in management at the Department of Accounting, Finance and Management, University of Essex, UK ELZBIETA PAKSZYS is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Philosophy Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. ALF REHN holds a Chair of Management and Organization at A...bo Akademi University, and is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden MARJA SOILA-WADMAN is Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden ALEXANDER STYHRE is Professor in technology management, specializing in project management at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden MATS SUNDGREN is a Principal Scientist, Clinical Development, Astra Zeneca R&D Molndal, Sweden TONY WATSON is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Nottingham University Business School, UK KATARZYNA WOLANIK BOSTROM works as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Culture and Media/ Ethnology at Umea University in Sweden

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IIRIS AALTIO is Professor at the University of Jyvaskyla and Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. ELENA ANTONACCOPOULOU is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK. DIRK BUNZEL has studied in Germany and Australia and after researching the Future of Work in Scottish call centres and software firms, Dirk has been lecturing at Keele University in England since 2001. MALGORZATA CIELSIELSKA is a doctoral student at the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). She graduated in management and marketing (MA with honors) from the School of Management of Warsaw University (Poland) in 2003 DOROTA BOURNE has worked on research projects that addressed international knowledge transfer, the idea of the built-in quality, a difference between organizational image and identity and the application of the Personal Construct Psychology in business YVONNE GUERRIER is Professor of Organization Studies and Dean of the School of Business and Social Sciences at Roehampton University, UK DARIUSZ JEMIELNIAK is Assistant Professor of management at Kozminski Business School (Poland) and a visiting researcher at Cornell University (2004-2005), Harvard University (2007) and University of California Berkeley (2008), USA JOANNA JEMIELNIAK is an Assistant Professor at Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Warsaw, Poland KARIN JONNERGARD is Professor in corporate governance and management control at the University ofVaxjoe and also connected to the University of Lund. She is research leader at the Forum for Research on Professions, Vaxjoe University and the member of the research group Corporate Entrepreneurship and Governance MIHAELA KELEMEN is Professor or Management Studies at Keele University, UK. MARCUS LINDAHL is Assistant Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden MONIKA KOSTERA is Ordinary Professor in Management, Professor at Vaxjoe and Warsaw Universities SUMOHON MATILAL is a doctoral student in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Management, at the University of Essex, UK LENA OLAISON is a doctoral candidate in management at the Department of Accounting, Finance and Management, University of Essex, UK ELZBIETA PAKSZYS is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Philosophy Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. ALF REHN holds a Chair of Management and Organization at Abo Akademi University, and is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden MARJA SOILA-WADMAN is Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden ALEXANDER STYHRE is Professor in technology management, specializing in project management at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden MATS SUNDGREN is a Principal Scientist, Clinical Development, Astra Zeneca R&D Moelndal, Sweden TONY WATSON is Professor ofOrganisational Behaviour at Nottingham University Business School, UK KATARZYNA WOLANIK BOSTROM works as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Culture and Media/ Ethnology at Umea University in Sweden

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'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 their reading list to broaden students' horizons and generate a deeper understanding of the complexities of organizational life.' - Scandinavian Journal of Management





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ISBN 9780230515710
Author M. Kostera
Format Hardback
Page Count 220
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

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