{"product_id":"making-sense-of-the-organization-volume-2-9780470742204","title":"Making Sense of the Organization Volume 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking Sense of the Organization  elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn.   These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Introduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Organized Impermanence: An Overview 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Mundane Poetics: Searching for Wisdom in Organizational Theory 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Faith, Evidence, and Action: Better Guesses in an Unknowable World 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Attending 45\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Managing the Unexpected: Complexity as Distributed Sensemaking 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Information Overload Revisited 65\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathleen M. Sutcliffe and Karl. E Weick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Organizing for Mindfulness: Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge 85\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKarl E. Weick and Ted Putnam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Interpretation 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Making Sense of Blurred Images: Mindful Organizing in Mission STS-107 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking 129\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKarl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, and David Obstfeld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Impermanent Systems and Medical Errors: Variety Mitigates Adversity 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Action 173\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Hospitals as Cultures of Entrapment: A Re-analysis of the Bristol Royal Infirmary 175\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKarl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure of Organizing 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Positive Organizing and Organizational Tragedy 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Learning and Change 223\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Emergent Change as a Universal in Organizations 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Leadership as the Legitimation of Doubt 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 281\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402422427991,"sku":"9780470742204","price":32.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470742204.jpg?v=1730480350","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-sense-of-the-organization-volume-2-9780470742204","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}