Making sense of sensemaking narratives

By Andrew D. Brown, Patrick Stacey, Joe Nandhakumar. 2008

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Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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‘Datafication’: making sense of (big) data in a complex world (2013, background): “In the organisational literature, sense-making refers to processes of organising using the technology of language (e.g., labelling and categorising) to identify and regularise memories into plausible explanations and whole narratives (Brown et al , 2008).”
From hero to villain to hero: Making experience sensible through embodied narrative sensemaking (2012, unknown): “This process is seen alternatively as collaborative (Holstein and Gubrium, 2000) or contested (e.g. Brown et al., 2008; Fletcher and Watson, 2007).”
Academic careers: The limits of the ‘boundaryless approach’ and the power of promotion scripts (2011, background): “While such claims may seem to be about ‘saving face’ (Brown et al., 2008) and justifying failure, they nevertheless show the importance of promotion rules and models for 41 of the 45 interviewees, who use them to account for their individual career paths and choices.”
The “Other” Time: A Review of the Subjective Experience of Time in Organizations (2020, background): “It can be constructed retrospectively yet used prospectively..." (Brown et al., 2008, p. 1038) 23% Note: Based on 133 articles (73 intersubjective; 60 intrasubjective).”
Sensemaking in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (2014, background): “…on the construction of intersubjective meaning in organizations, and other discursive analyses, especially in the context of organizational change (Brown et al., 2008; Currie & Brown, 2003; Helms Mills, 2003; Humphreys & Brown, 2002; Mantere et al., 2012; Monin et al., 2013; Patriotta, 2003;…”
The appropriated language: Dominant stories as a source of organizational inertia (2012, background): “…storytelling and semantics, arguing that in order to make sense of organizational events, actors tell stories about the events, and in telling these stories, meaning is assigned to the concepts used for sensemaking and storytelling (see Brown et al., 2008; Thatchenkerry, 2001; Weick et al., 2005).”
Different Strokes for Different Folks: Entrepreneurial Narratives of Emotion, Cognition, and Making Sense of Business Failure (2015, background): “Narratives reflect (and give) meaning to events (Orr, 1995), and thereby play a critical role in the process of sensemaking (Brown, Stacey, & Nandhakumar, 2008).”
Strategy as Practice and the Narrative Turn (2011, background): “As an important element of the ‘currency of sensemaking’ (Boje, 1991, p. 106), narratives express identities (Czarniawska, 1997; Brown et al., 2008; Rhodes & Brown, 2005).”