Making Sense of the Organization
- List Price: $82.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
- Publish date: 08/01/2000
Description:
The field of organization theory has been traditionally dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality -- an approach which has largely ignored the inherent complexity and ambiguity of real-world organizations and their environments. The sense-making process looks at how the creation of reality occurs when people make retrospective sense of the situations in which they find themselves.
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While James March and Richard Cyert are exponents of the rational decision-making approach, Karl Weick is considered the "guru" within academic sense-making circles. This text brings together Weick's best-known articles on sense-making. Published over the past two decades, they have appeared in well-known journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and the California Management Review. Students and scholars of organizational theory will delight in this authoritative collection.
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