Narrative Construction as Sensemaking: How a Central Bank Thinks

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Sensemaking in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (2014, background): “Two sets of work highlight the importance of narrative and of metaphor as sensemaking resources (Abolafia, 2010; Boje, 1991, 1995; Brown, 2000, 2004; Brown & Humphreys, 2003; Brown et al., 2008; Cornelissen, 2012; Cornelissen & Clarke, 2010); other research emphasizes the local and situated nature o”
Entrepreneurial Storytelling, Future Expectations, and the Paradox of Legitimacy (2014, background): “Abolafia (2010) documented such transformation in his study of the Federal Reserve Bank.”
From hero to villain to hero: Making experience sensible through embodied narrative sensemaking (2012, unknown): “Abolafia, 2010; Weick et al., 2005). This work focuses on developing fixed categorizations after the fact, rather than on lived embodied experience. Second, as Maitlis and Sonnenshein (2010) note, emotions are traditionally viewed as an impediment to sensemaking.”