Organizational Epics and Sagas

MARIA AGGESTAM is a Researcher at the University of Lund, Sweden GABRIELLE DUREPOS is a Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour in the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada DANIEL ERICSSON is Assistant Professor in Business Administration at the School of Management and Economics, Växjö University, Sweden. He is also responsible for the Swedish Police's executive development program ULLA ERIKSSON-ZETTERQUIST received her Ph.D. at School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Sweden, and is now a researcher at Gothenburg Research Institute in the same school YIANNIS GABRIEL is a Professor of Organizational Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK GIUSEPPE GROSSI is Associate Professor in Public Management at Siena University, Italy. He is been visiting scholar at Stockholm University, Sydney University, and Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Warsaw, Poland JEAN HELMS MILLS is an Associate Professor of Management at Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Jean is Associate Editor (The Americas) for Culture and Organization and serves on the editorial boards of Gender, Work& Organization, Management and Organizational History, Equal Opportunities International and The Journal of Workplace Rights. Currently, she is Vice President of Communications for The Administrative Sciences Association of Canada JERZY KOCIATKIEWICZ is currently a Lecturer in marketing at the University of Essex,UK, having previously dabbled in sociology, organization theory, and science and technology studies in Poland and Sweden MONIKA KOSTERA is Ordinary professor in Management, Professor at Växjö University and Warsaw University, Poland KATJA LINDQVIST is Assistant Professor at the School of Business and Lecturer at the International Curator Management Education at Stockholm University, Sweden ALBERT J. MILLS is Director of the PhD in Management at Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada PERNILLA NILLSON is a Ph.D. student at Umeå School of Business, Sweden MARTIN PARKER works at the University of Leicester School of Management, UK KYM THORNE is the Open Universities Programme Director and Supported Researcher in the School of Commerce; at the University of South Australia

Introduction to Volume 2: The Mythologization of Organization; M.Kostera The Myth of Entrepreneurship; M.Aggestam Living with the Myth of Unattainable Technology; U.Eriksson-Zetterquist Oedipus in the Land of Organizational Darkness; Y.Gabriel   The Myth of Corporate Size in Public Service Companies – the Case of Toscana Energia SPA; G.Grossi Bureaucrats and Heretics – Gendering Mythology; D.Ericsson  & P.Nilsson   The Myth of the Virtual Organization; K.Thorne Heroic Villains: The Badlands of Economy and Organization; M.Parker   The Myth of Management as Art, the Management of Art as Myth; K.Lindqvist The Cosmogonic Duel; J.Kociatkiewicz The Pan American Dream and the Myth of the Pioneer; G.Durepos, J.Helms Mills  & A.J.Mills Conclusions