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Making sense of sensemaking in organization studies

Brown, Andrew D., Colville, Ian and Pye, Annie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5392-2533 2015. Making sense of sensemaking in organization studies. Organization Studies 36 (2) , pp. 265-277. 10.1177/0170840614559259

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Abstract

Sensemaking’ is an extraordinarily influential perspective with a substantial following among management and organization scholars interested in how people appropriate and enact their ‘realities’. Organization Studies has been and remains one of the principal outlets for work that seeks either to draw on or to extend our understanding of sensemaking practices in and around organizations. The contribution of this paper is fourfold. First, we review briefly what we understand by sensemaking and some key debates which fracture the field. Second, we attend critically to eight papers published previously in Organization Studies which we discuss in terms of five broad themes: (i) how sense is made through discourse; (ii) the politics from which social forms of sensemaking emerge and the power that is inherent in it; (iii) the intertwined and recursive nature of micro-macro sensemaking processes; (iv) the strong ties which bind sensemaking and identities; and (v) the role of sensemaking processes in decision making and change. Third, while not designed to be a review of extant literature, we discuss these themes with reference to other related work, notably that published in this journal. Finally, we raise for consideration a number of potentially generative topics for further empirical and theory-building research.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Business (Including Economics)
Additional Information: First published online 3 December 2014
Publisher: SAGE
ISSN: 0170-8406
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2022 11:03
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/87197

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