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Myths, Stories, and Organizations - Premodern Narratives for our Times (Hardcover, New)
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Myths, Stories, and Organizations - Premodern Narratives for our Times (Hardcover, New)
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Each chapter of the book 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. Each
contributor is inspired by a relatively short but rich text which
is then used as a springboard for an analysis of contemporary
social and organizational realities. The idea behind this book is
that by looking at contemporary society through the prism of
pre-modern narratives, certain features emerge in sharp relief,
while others are found to be entrenched in societies across the
ages. The texts that have inspired the authors of this collection
differ-some are myths, some are stories, one is a children's tale.
The origins of these texts differ, from the scriptural to the
folkloric, from high art to oral tradition. What all the texts have
in common is a distinct and compelling plot, a cast of recognizable
characters with an ability to touch us and speak to us through the
ages, and above all, a powerful symbolic aura, one that makes them
identifiable landmarks in storytelling tradition. The driving force
behind this project was each author's love for their narratives. It
is not an exaggeration to say that the book is a true labor of
love. The chapters are introduced by the editor and are arranged in
four parts, each with its own introduction. The chapters in each
part spring from stories that share a narrative character, and are
labeled as Knowledge Narratives, Heroic Narratives, Tragic
Narratives and Reflective Narratives. 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 pother 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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