... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Professional values Organizational change Primary task Value dynamics Professional work Organizing Hybrid professionalism Pragmatism Sensemaking Qualitative methods Public service professionals Evidence based knowledge At its core...

.../methodology/approach The research adopts an autoethnographic approach that weaves together sensemaking and reflexivity. The analysis is grounded in the lived experiences of an Early-Career Scholar navigating entry into a research field within a business school context, positioning the researcher...

... employs an autoethnographic approach grounded in sensemaking and reflexivity, drawing on the personal life experiences of a researcher who collected data for his dissertation involving informal entrepreneurs (IEs). Findings This research reveals that gaining access is not a straightforward process...

... by the recipients depends on how they make sense of the innovation. According to Weick’s sensemaking theory, when a new practice is introduced, individuals engage in sensemaking to give meaning to their experience and help them understand and adapt to the new situation. The sensemaking process directly shapes...

...Kedir Assefa Tessema Purpose This study aimed to investigate the sensemaking strategies employed by early-career employees working within organizationally constrained environments. Design/methodology/approach Grounded in the sensemaking-as-accomplishment framework, a longitudinal multi-case...

...Yi Zhu Purpose This study explores the politics of ideology in the process of sensegiving and sensemaking at a Japanese retailer in Hong Kong. Studies on power and politics are scarce despite key role of power and politics in understanding the factors behind the conflict between the management's...

... learning. It explores the “how” question—how can employee resistance be transformed into organizational learning? Design/methodology/approach This study utilizes the qualitative research method of auto-ethnography. Sensemaking auto-ethnographic narrative accounts of two change agents, internal...

...Natália Peroni Pellin; Alex Weymer; Leila Andressa Dissenha; Márcio André Leal Bauer Purpose The aim of this article was to analyze how the presence of the elements that constitute organizational links are related to sensemaking in a cooperative system of medical work. Design/methodology...

...Michele Heath; Tracy Porter Purpose Drawing from the extant literature on sensemaking theory, the purpose of this paper is to understand how physicians view health information exchange (HIE) implementation and how their stories frame the situation. Design/methodology/approach This paper...

... in the process of emotional sensemaking using qualitative thematic analysis of 30 in-depth interviews. A range of occupations are represented and all participants worked in a full-time capacity. Findings – The paper identifies how the predominant relationship frame (transactional/relational) is used...

..., confidante, the unworthy, and predator. These metaphors are explained through a series of “hidden transcripts” (Scott, 1990). The impact of these different metaphors and hidden transcripts as sensemaking devices is addressed. Originality/value – The paper uses an innovative qualitative method to argue...

... narratives of the scene. Dr Kendra Dyanne Rivera can be contacted at: krivera@csusm.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Sensemaking Tacit knowledge Emotion Dirty work Border patrol Messy text I peered through the glass at the agents and detained immigrants...

... organisational conflict. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on Weick's theoretical framework of sensemaking and the notion of reflexivity as a resource for dealing with research experiences, the paper presents empirical narratives that explore how research experiences of negotiating access to information...

... by coaching and enabling meaningfulness‐making tactics identified in this paper. Originality/value This paper presents alternative ways to achieve work meaningfulness that complement the previously recognized job crafting and sensemaking routes. Timo Vuori can be contacted at: timo.vuori@tkk.fi ©...

... intellectualization and experience. In the first part of this paper, we will introduce the concept of polysemy and of managerial courage, which was the subject of our study, situating it within a sensemaking approach and presenting the research strategies that have been used to study it. The second part...

... Sensemaking Intersubjectivity Reflexivity Research Complicity Organizational theory Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see (King 1959/1988, p. 48) . In her 2007 book, Shadowing and Other Techniques for Doing Fieldwork in Modern Societies, Barbara...

... to discover how they engendered and maintained order. Findings This paper contributes to the understanding narratives as a constitutional organizing and sensemaking process, including the narratives of “do it yourself,” and economic production, family and home, and personal narratives that constitute...