{"product_id":"making-sense-of-the-organization-paperback-softback-9780631223191","title":"Making Sense of the Organization (Paperback \/ softback) 9780631223191","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking Sense of the Organization\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKarl E. Weick (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631223191, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 September 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e496 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 17.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.857 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume brings together the best-known and most influential articles on sensemaking in organizations by one of its most distinguished exponents, Karl Weick. \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together the best most influential articles written by one of the gurus of sensemaking - Karl Weick.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHelps readers develop a thorough understanding of the sensemaking process - essential for effective management.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Organizations as Contexts for Sensemaking \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Sensemaking in Organizations: Small Structures with Large Consequences 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Sources of Order in Underorganized Systems: Themes in Recent Organizational Theory 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Organizational Redesign as Improvisation 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Components of Sensemaking \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e93\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eECOLOGICAL CHANGE 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Vulnerable System: An Analysis of the Tenerife Air Disaster 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Technology as Equivoque: Sensemaking in New Technologies 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eENACTMENT 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Enactment Processes in Organizations 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Enactment and the Boundaryless Career: Organizing as We Work 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSELECTION 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Collective Mind in Organizations: Heedful Interrelating on Flight Decks 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRETENTION 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Organizations as Cognitive Maps: Charting Ways to Success and Failure 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Organizational Culture as a Source of High Reliability 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Substitutes for Strategy 345\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eREMEMBERING 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Attitude of Wisdom: Ambivalence as the Optimal Compromise 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Management of Organizational Change Among Loosely Coupled Elements 380\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Organization Design: Organizations as Self-Designing Systems 404\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Applications of Sensemaking \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e421\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Small Wins: Redefining the Scale of Social Problems 426\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Cosmos vs. Chaos: Sense and Nonsense in Electronic Contexts 444\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Sensemaking as an Organizational Dimension of Global Change 458\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 473\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Business \u0026amp; management [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Business \u0026amp; management\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Business%20\u0026amp;%20management%20%5BKJ%5D%22\"\u003eKJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52458370859288,"sku":"9780631223191","price":24.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631223191.jpg?v=1785371775","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/making-sense-of-the-organization-paperback-softback-9780631223191","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}