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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Book actually looks unused but it is a withdrawn library book with stickers in the front henc sold as only good. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Myths about organizations and about organizational actors are power- ful stories that touch something profound in the reader or listener. They can help us see and understand many important phenomena that are invisible to the rational instrumental mind. This is not universally acknowledged perhaps due to a large extent to the dominance of that instrumental mind for the past decades and centuries. Furthermore myths stem from the sacred realm of experience and many people con- sider business and work organizations as emphatically profane – for an exploration of the distinction between sacred and profane see Eliade (1961) and Armstrong (2005). However there are times where these two realms meet for example in ethnographic stories of organizations where the actors draw on the realm of shared spiritual experience when refer- ring to values and important events. Myths provide a language for these accounts as well as ideas which people relate to when dealing with the most vital questions. Myths are however not just a language that organizational actors sometimes invoke but a frame of reference that can be discerned under- neath many rationalistically minded organizations. Myths help people to see the whole not just as a sum of parts and they socialize them and guide them throughout their lives (Bowles 1989). This function was traditionally served by cults and religions; nowadays it is often left to work organizations: ‘With the decline of the role of the Church work organizations have become increasingly influential in their impact on peoples’ thinking and behavior (LL)