Organizational Olympians

Introduction to the Trilogy: Mythologies of Organizational Everyday Life; M.Kostera Introduction to Volume 1: The Heroes and Villains of Organization; M.Kostera Louhi, the Mistress of Northland: the Power of the Loner; I.Aaltio   Engaged Leadership: Living the Myth and Embodying the Legend of the Olympian Athlete; E.P.Antonacopoulou From Managers to Artists and Priests: On Transformation and Development of Organizational Leaders;  D.Bourne  The Uncanny Organization Man – Superhero Myths And Contemporary Management Discourse; A.Rehn  & M.Lindhal   From Rags to Riches – a Fairy Tale or Living Ethos?  Stories of Polish Entrepreneurship During and After Transformation of 1989; M.Ciesielska   "I could have been like Lou Barlow, but I'm more like Ken Barlow": Long-stayers as Heroes or Failures; Y.Guerrier Little Johnny and the Wizard of OS – the PC User as a Fool Hero; D.Jemielniak   An Emerging Legend of a Kosovar heroine: Narrating Female Entrepreneurs; L.Olaison Elzbieta Pakszys: Gender-content-Myths and their Role in Nation Forming; E.Palszys Appendix 1: Greuceanu: The Heavy and the Great Man. 163 The Hard-working Hero/ine among Phantoms, Donors and Dark Forces: On Mythical Features in Polish Organizational Imagination; K.W.Boström  167 Mighty McManus Mystery, Myth and Modernity; T.Watson Myth and Charisma as Symbolic Capital: The Case of Architecture; A.Styhre  & M.Sundgren   Paradise Lost – Impartiality of an Arbitrator; J.Jemielniak   The Film Producer: A Scapegoat or/and a Midwife in the Film Making Process; M.Soila-Wadman   The Witchcraft of Professionalism – the Attractiveness of Ideal Types of Professions; K.Jonnergård