Through a wide‐ranging critical review of relevant publications, we explore and articulate
what constitutes the sensemaking perspective in organization studies, as well as its range of …

Sensemaking is the process through which people work to understand issues or events that
are novel, ambiguous, confusing, or in some other way violate expectations. As an activity …

'Sensemaking'is an extraordinarily influential perspective with a substantial following among
management and organization scholars interested in how people appropriate and enact …

We develop a typology of sensemaking in organizations that reconsiders existing
sensemaking research by providing a more coherent and integrative conceptualization of …

Sensemaking can appear impenetrable to newcomers for precisely the same reason that it
enables remarkably incisive analyses: the sensemaking perspective helps disrupt limiting …

Despite a growing literature on the topic, our understanding of organizational sensemaking
remains somewhat fragmented, and discussions have not yet fully integrated related ideas …

Taking Weick's theory of sensemaking as illustrative of a socioconstructionist conception of
sensemaking and learning in organization studies, I examine the methodological …

The concept of sensemaking has generated a great deal of interest and research in
organizational settings. In its simplest form, sensemaking involves assigning meaning to …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to revisit the oft cited but as yet not operationalized
Weick's sensemaking framework, in order to provide suggested ways forward. Development …

Sensemaking involves turning circumstances into a situation that is comprehended explicitly
in words and that serves as a springboard into action. In this paper we take the position that …