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The Hard-working Hero/ine among Phantoms, Donors and Dark Forces: On Mythical Features in Polish Organizational Imagination

In: Organizational Olympians

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  • Katarzyna Wolanik Boström

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Myths and tales may be considered as a culture’s way to conceptualize important values and paradoxes of reality. They try to find a symbolic solution to profound — and actually unsolvable — problems and dilemmas (Barthes, 1957/1973; Lévi-Strauss, 1981). In this chapter, I discuss mythical features occurring in 30 extensive life-story interviews that I carried out with well-educated Polish specialists at the end of the 1990s (see Wolanik Boström, 2005). Almost ten years of the Polish ‘transition’ from socialism to democracy and market economy had passed; a turbulent period for working-life values, which were subjected to challenges and renegotiations in the interviews.

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  • Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, 2008. "The Hard-working Hero/ine among Phantoms, Donors and Dark Forces: On Mythical Features in Polish Organizational Imagination," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Monika Kostera (ed.), Organizational Olympians, chapter 12, pages 132-141, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58358-0_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230583580_14
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