Complex Thinking, Complex Practice: The Case for a Narrative Approach to Organizational Complexity

By Haridimos Tsoukas, Mary Jo Hatch. 2001

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Subfields: Computational Theory and Mathematics, Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

In Search of Phronesis: Leadership and the Art of Judgment (2014, unknown): “…setting is similar to that faced by Olson, namely when practitioners are simultaneously pulled in different directions, knowing that they need to find a way of attending to several frames at once (e.g., moral, legal, and business frames; Badaracco, 2002, 2006; Tsoukas & Hatch, 2001; Weick, 2001).”
Path Dependence or Path Creation (2010, background): “In addition to relational elements, agency also implicates temporal elements (Tsoukas and Hatch, 2001).”
Measuring the Unmeasured: An Institutional Entrepreneur Strategy in an Emerging Industry (2004, background): “Tsoukas and Hatch (2001) argue that in such complex situations researchers should privilege qualitative and narrative approaches; approaches that attempt to render actors’ interpretations.”
The Role of Narratives in Sustaining Organizational Innovation (2009, background): “Thus, narratives and innovations coevolve, with one influencing the other over time (Tsoukas and Hatch 2001).”
The appropriated language: Dominant stories as a source of organizational inertia (2012, background): “The need for narratives and storytelling arises from the fragmented and contradictory nature of organizational events: stories serve as a device to bring order to the flux of organizing, and thus instil meaning and connection, which would otherwise be largely absent (Tsoukas and Hatch, 2001).”
Leadership Development as Identity Construction (2010, background): “We sought to find “nuances of event, relationship, and purpose” (Tsoukas & Hatch, 2001, p. 998) that offer glimpses into the meaning making of social actors as they choose to be subjects.”
An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility at Credit Line: A Narrative Approach (2008, background): “A narrative perspective also gives ‘access to and appreciation of context’, or specific characters, events and relationships, that yield sensitivity to salient situational particularities (Tsoukas & Hatch, 2001: 998-999).”
Boundary work: An interpretive ethnographic perspective on negotiating and leveraging cross-cultural identity (2011, background): “Many organizations today, especially global ones, exhibit a complexity that Tsoukas and Hatch (2001) characterize by dynamic processes, unpredictability, novelty, and emergent forms.”