Sensemaking in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward

By Sally Maitlis, Marlys K. Christianson. 2014

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Subfields: Communication, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Leaders' sensemaking under crises: Emerging cognitive consensus over time within management teams (2015, background): “While the social aspects of sensemaking is a theme running through the literature, some researchers put more emphasis on sensemaking as an individual cognitive process (Maitlis & Christianson, 2014).”
Information technology and the search for organizational agility: A systematic review with future research possibilities (2019, background): “Sensemaking – previously shown as a way for individuals to make sense of cues in the environment – can also help to assess the competing tensions that can undermine agility (Maitlis and Christianson, 2014).”
Uncertainty, Knowledge Problems, and Entrepreneurial Action (2018, background): “More recently, Maitlis and Christianson (2014) undertook a panoramic treatment of sensemaking.”
Making sense of blockchain technology: How will it transform supply chains? (2019, background): “Maitlis and Christianson (2014), in their review of the vast sensemaking literature, pointed out that while multiple streams of research have been conducted under the sensemaking umbrella, a single theory or definition of sensemaking is still lacking.”
Innovation and Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2020, background): “…in organizations has indeed received significant attention in organizational psychology since the work of Weick that addresses how people give meaning to their collective experiences (Weick [1995]; Weick, Sutcliffe and Obstfeld [2005]; for an extensive review see Maitlis and Christianson [2014]).”
The Challenge of Integration: A Review of the M&A Integration Literature (2017, background): “…research, despite its focus on a substantial organizational change event, has had little exchange with the broader literature on organizational change, which is both more mature and larger (for recent reviews cf. Bartunek et al. 2011; Maitlis and Christianson 2014; Rafferty et al. 2012).”
Organizational resilience and employee work-role performance after a crisis situation: exploring the effects of organizational resilience on internal crisis communication (2020, background): “The theoretical foundation of the sensemaking process stems from cognitive processes as sense is created by attributing meaning to environmental stimuli (Maitlis & Christianson, 2014; Stieglitz et al., 2018).”
Work-Life Events Theory: Making Sense of Shock Events in Dual-Earner Couples (2019, background): “In short, a shock event triggersa felt need for sensemaking (Maitlis & Christianson, 2014; Weick, 1995), or turning circumstances “into a situation that is comprehended explicitly in words and that serves as aspringboard toaction” (Taylor&VanEvery, 2000: 40).”
Corporate foresight: An emerging field with a rich tradition (2015, background): “We regard the establishment of a link to the general management literature mostly as a re-connection, due to the traditional links with environmental scanning (Fahey and King, 1977; Thomas, 1980), strategic issues management (Ansoff, 1980; Dutton and Jackson, 1987; Camillus and Datta, 1991), sensema”