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Sensemaking

Known as: Collective sensemaking, Sense-making 
Sensemaking is the process by which people give meaning to experience. While this process has been studied by other disciplines under other names for… 
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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
What Is a "Fair" Price? Ethics as Sensemaking
Whereas the deliberative democracy approach to ethics seeks to bridge universalist reason and contextual judgment to explain the… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
From hero to villain to hero: Making experience sensible through embodied narrative sensemaking
This article aims to make a contribution to the literature by addressing an undertheorized aspect of sensemaking: its embodied… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Use of microblogging for collective sense-making during violent crises: A study of three campus shootings
The purpose of this study is to understand how microblogging communications change and contribute to collective sense-making over… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Sensemaking Under Pressure: The Influence of Professional Roles and Social Accountability on the Creation of Sense
In this paper, I elaborate a theoretical model of how individuals come to make or create sense through their language while being… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Introduction to this Special Issue on Sensemaking
Making sense of the world using information technology has become a ubiquitous activity in the digital era. Sensemaking, as in to… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Subsidiary Integration as Identity Construction and Institution Building: A Political Sensemaking Approach
This paper develops a political sensemaking approach to the post-acquisition integration process, which directs attention to how… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Using institutional theory with sensemaking theory: a case study of information system implementation in healthcare
Institutional theory has proven to be a central analytical perspective for investigating the role of social and historical… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Exploring Agility in Distributed Information Systems Development Teams: An Interpretive Study in an Offshoring Context
Agility is increasingly being seen as an essential element underlying the effectiveness of globally distributed information… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
When values backfire: Leadership, attribution, and disenchantment in a values-driven organization
Review
1994
Review
1994
Organizational Culture and Individual Sensemaking: A Schema-Based Perspective
Organizational culture encompasses both individual and group-level phenomena. However, to date, the individual-level dynamics of… 
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