Sensemaking in Organizations

Weick, K. E. (1995). Sensemaking in Organizations. Sage Publications.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1995

Link

https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/sensemaking-in-organizations/book4988

Cited from

literature_literary_theory, organizational_management, philosophy

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5 citations across 5 artifacts.

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Primes

• Collective Systemic Learning
  • The pattern-detection process identifying recurring themes, causal relationships, and insights from accumulated experience across sub-units and time periods

    This sourceTheorizes sensemaking as retrospective, social, cue-driven, and plausibility-based — how members notice, bracket, and interpret recurring cues to construct shared accounts of what is happening.

• Formal vs. Informal Structures

  • This sourceDevelops sensemaking as the retrospective construction of meaning in organizations (identity, retrospect, enactment, social process, ongoing cues, plausibility). No longer cited on a FACT marker after re-sourcing; retained as bibliography only.

• Interpretation
  • … evidence-admissibility dispute calls for another, a convention dispute a third — the kind of role-decomposition Weick (1995) advances when he distinguishes sensemaking's enacted environment, retrospective reading, identity work, and ongoing revision as separable handles on an otherwise opaque "what's going on here?"
• Narrative
  • Organizations: Strategy, change efforts, and brand identity depend on a shared story of "where we came from and where we are going"; leaders use narrative to make sense of disruption, align action, and confer meaning on otherwise disconnected events.
• Sensemaking
  • The cue-extraction and bracketing process identifying which signals from an overwhelming stream get attended to and where the situation's boundaries are

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