Description
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together the best--known and most influential articles on sensemaking in organizations by one of its most distinguished exponents, Karl Weick. * Brings together the best most influential articles written by one of the gurus of sensemaking -- Karl Weick.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Part I Organizations as Contexts for Sensemaking 1
Introduction 3
1 Sensemaking in Organizations: Small Structures with Large Consequences 5
2 Sources of Order in Underorganized Systems: Themes in Recent Organizational Theory 32
3 Organizational Redesign as Improvisation 57
Part II Components of Sensemaking 93
Introduction 95
ECOLOGICAL CHANGE 97
4 The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster 100
5 The Vulnerable System: An Analysis of the Tenerife Air Disaster 125
6 Technology as Equivoque: Sensemaking in New Technologies 148
ENACTMENT 176
7 Enactment Processes in Organizations 179
8 Enactment and the Boundaryless Career: Organizing as We Work 207
9 Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations 224
SELECTION 237
10 Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems 241
11 Collective Mind in Organizations: Heedful Interrelating on Flight Decks 259
12 Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis 284
RETENTION 305
13 Organizations as Cognitive Maps: Charting Ways to Success and Failure 308
14 Organizational Culture as a Source of High Reliability 330
15 Substitutes for Strategy 345
REMEMBERING 356
16 The Attitude of Wisdom: Ambivalence as the Optimal Compromise 361
17 Management of Organizational Change Among Loosely Coupled Elements 380
18 Organization Design: Organizations as Self-Designing Systems 404
Part III Applications of Sensemaking 421
Introduction 423
19 Small Wins: Redefining the Scale of Social Problems 426
20 Cosmos vs. Chaos: Sense and Nonsense in Electronic Contexts 444
21 Sensemaking as an Organizational Dimension of Global Change 458
Index 473
