Myths, Stories, and Organizations Premodern Narratives for our Times

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

1 - The Narrative Veil
2 - Knowing as Desire: Dante's Ulisse at the End of the Known World
3 - The Blind People and the Elephant
4 - Heaven and Paradise: Western Ways of Perfect (Non)-Organization
5 - Overcoming the Hydra: Leaderless Groups and Terrorism
6 - Divided Neither in Life nor in Death: Friendship and Leadership in the Story of David and Jonathan
7 - The Legend of Cu Chulainn: Exploring Organization Theory's Heroic Odyssey
8 - The Flying Dutchman and the Discontents of Postmodernity
9 - Arachne and Minerva: Women, Power, and Realization
10 - Prometheus, the Quest for Knowledge and the Promise of Salvation through Technique
11 - Phaethon, the Struggle for Identity, and the Reins of Power
12 - The Hymn to Demeter: The Curse of Insatiable Consumption
13 - The Velveteen Rabbit and the Emotional Construction of Organizations
14 - Shy William and the Gaberlunzie Girl

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.