Making sense of the organization : Vol. 2, The impermanent organization / Karl E. Weick.

Making Sense of the Organization elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn. These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolv...

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Main Author: Weick, Karl E.
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Language:English
Published: Chichester, U.K. : Wiley, ©2009.
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505 0 |a Part I: Introduction -- Organized impermanence: An overview -- Mundane poetics: Searching for wisdom in organizational theory -- Faith, evidence, and action: Better guesses in an unknowable world -- Part II: Attending -- Managing the unexpected: Complexity as distributed sensemaking -- Information overload revisited -- Organizing for mindfulness: Eastern wisdom and western knowledge -- Part III: Interpretation -- Making sense of blurred images: Mindful organizing in mission STS-107 -- Organizing and the process of sensemaking -- Impermanent systems and medical errors: Variety mitigates adversity -- Part IV: Action -- Hospitals as cultures of entrapment: A re-analysis of the Bristol Royal Infirmary -- Enacting an environment: The infrastructure of organizing -- Positive organizing and organizational tragedy -- Part V: Learning and change -- Emergent change as a universal in organizations -- Drop your tools: An allegory for organizational studies -- Leadership as the legitimation of doubt. 
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