Myths, stories, and organizations

Premodern narratives for our times

Yiannis Gabriel

262 pages, parution le 16/02/2004

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The book is an edited collection of fourteen chapters, each one of which takes as its starting point a myth, a legend, a story, or a fable, and explores its contemporary relevance for a world of globalization, organizations, and consumerism. The book offers a set of probing, original and critical inquiries into the nature of human experience knowledge and truth, the nature of leadership, power and heroic achievement, postmodernity and its discontents, and emotion, identity and the nature of human relations in organizations. Different chapters deal, among other things, with the nature of leadership in the face of terrorism, friendship, women's position in organizations, the struggle for identity, the curse of insatiable consumption and the ways the hero and heroine are constructed in our times.

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Barbara Czarniawska: Preface
Yiannis Gabriel: Introduction
The Knowledge Narratives: Experience, Learning, and Truth
The Heroic Narratives: Achievement, Leadership, and Power
The Tragic Narratives: Postmodernity and its Discontents
The Reflexive Narratives: Emotion, Identity, and the Nature of Relations in Organizations

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Yiannis Gabriel
Parution	16/02/2004
Nb. de pages	262
Format	15,6 x 23,4
Couverture	Broché
Poids	347g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780199264483
ISBN13	978-0-19-926448-3