Myths, Stories, and Organizations Premodern Narratives for Our Times

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Pub. Date: 2004-04-08
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Summary

- An original exploration of several key issues in organizational studies, such as knowledge, leadership, postmodernity and human relations

Author Biography


Yiannis Gabriel is Professor of Organizational Theory, School of Management, Imperial College, having taught previously at Thames Polytechnic and Bath University. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, where he also carried out post-graduate studies in industrial sociology. He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. His main research interests are in organizational and psychoanalytic theories, consumer and cultural studies. He has written numerous books and articles and is well-known for his work on storytelling in organizations. He has carried out research on leadership, management learning, the dissemination of organizational knowledge, and chaos and complexity in organizations. He has been Editor of the journal Management Learning and is Associate Editor of Human Relations.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
xv
Introduction 1(10)
Yiannis Gabriel
I. The Knowledge Narratives: Experience, Learning, and Truth
11(70)
The Narrative Veil: Truth and Untruths in Storytelling
17(15)
Yiannis Gabriel
Knowing as Desire: Dante's Ulysses at the End of the Known World
32(17)
Silvia Gherardi
The Blind People and the Elephant
49(17)
Peter Case
Paradise in Heaven and on Earth: Western Ideas of Perfect (Non)-Organization
66(15)
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas
II. The Heroic Narratives: Achievement, Leadership, and Power
81(50)
Overcoming the Hydra: Leaderless Groups and Terrorism
85(16)
Keith Grint
Divided Neither in Life, Nor in Death: Friendship and Leadership in the Story of David and Jonathan
101(15)
Robert French
Patrick Moore
The Legend of Cu Chulainn: Exploring Organization Theory's Heroic Odyssey
116(15)
Donncha Kavanagh
Majella O'Leary
III. The Tragic Narratives: Postmodernity and its Discontents
131(74)
The Flying Dutchman and the Discontents of Modernity
137(14)
Peter Pelzer
Arachne and Minerva: Women, Power, and Realization
151(14)
Yvonne Guerrier
Prometheus Unleashed: The Quest for Knowledge and the Promise of Salvation through Technique
165(11)
Ulrich Gehmann
Phaethon: Seizing the Reins of Power
176(16)
Diana Winstanley
Demeter and the Curse of Consumption
192(13)
Heather Hopfl
IV. The Reflexive Narratives: Emotion, Identity, and the Nature of Relations in Organizations
205(31)
The Velveteen Rabbit and Passionate Feelings for Organizations
209(14)
David Sims
Shy William and the Gaberlunzie Girl
223(13)
Tony Watson
Index 236

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