Narratives as sources of stability and change in organizations: Approaches and directions for future research

E Vaara, S Sonenshein, D Boje - Academy of management annals, 2016 - journals.aom.org
Although narrative analysis has made significant advances in organization and
management studies, scholars have not yet unleashed its full potential. This review provides …

Instruments for exploring organizational culture: A review of the literature

T Jung, T Scott, HTO Davies, P Bower… - Public administration …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Organizational culture is widely considered to be one of the most significant factors in
reforming and modernizing public administration and service delivery. This article …

Sensemaking in organizations: Taking stock and moving forward

S Maitlis, M Christianson - Academy of management annals, 2014 - journals.aom.org
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 …

[图书][B] How schools do policy: Policy enactments in secondary schools

SJ Ball, M Maguire, A Braun - 2011 - taylorfrancis.com
Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve
opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of …

Studying teachers' sensemaking to investigate teachers' responses to professional development focused on new standards

CD Allen, WR Penuel - Journal of teacher education, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research on teacher professional development (PD) underscores the importance of
the coherence of PD with standards, curriculum, and assessment. Teachers' judgments of …

Policy actors: Doing policy work in schools

SJ Ball, M Maguire, A Braun… - Discourse: Studies in the …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This paper considers the 'policy work'of teacher actors in schools. It focuses on the 'problem
of meaning'and offers a typology of roles and positions through which teachers engage with …

Research methods for managers

J Gill, P Johnson - 2010 - torrossa.com
Dr Phil Johnson is Professor of HRM at The School of Management, Sheffield University. He
has undertaken and published research mainly in the areas of epistemology, methodology …

From hero to villain to hero: Making experience sensible through embodied narrative sensemaking

A Cunliffe, C Coupland - Human relations, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This article aims to make a contribution to the literature by addressing an undertheorized
aspect of sensemaking: its embodied narrative nature. We do so by integrating a …

We're changing—Or are we? Untangling the role of progressive, regressive, and stability narratives during strategic change implementation

S Sonenshein - Academy of management Journal, 2010 - journals.aom.org
Data from a Fortune 500 retailer suggest that managers tell strategically ambiguous,
interwoven narratives about how an organization changes and how it remains the same …

Micro‐practices of strategic sensemaking and sensegiving: How middle managers interpret and sell change every day

L Rouleau - Journal of Management studies, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
abstract This paper looks at the workings of ongoing primary sensemaking and sensegiving
micro‐practices by which middle managers interpret and sell strategic change at the …