This article examines the effects of power on sensemaking processes, bridging two major,
yet traditionally separate, literatures in organization studies. Dividing power into its systemic …

Sensemaking involves turning circumstances into a situation that is comprehended explicitly
in words and that serves as a springboard into action. In this paper we take the position that …

Despite a growing interest in power in sensemaking, our understanding of how power is
linked with language is still theoretically underdeveloped. To this end, we develop a critical …

We develop a typology of sensemaking in organizations that reconsiders existing
sensemaking research by providing a more coherent and integrative conceptualization of …

'Sensemaking'is an extraordinarily influential perspective with a substantial following among
management and organization scholars interested in how people appropriate and enact …

Sensemaking can appear impenetrable to newcomers for precisely the same reason that it
enables remarkably incisive analyses: the sensemaking perspective helps disrupt limiting …

Through a wide‐ranging critical review of relevant publications, we explore and articulate
what constitutes the sensemaking perspective in organization studies, as well as its range of …

In this paper, I elaborate a theoretical model of how individuals come to make or create
sense through their language while being accountable to others. Using accounts of …

Sensemaking is the process through which people work to understand issues or events that
are novel, ambiguous, confusing, or in some other way violate expectations. As an activity …

Taking Weick's theory of sensemaking as illustrative of a socioconstructionist conception of
sensemaking and learning in organization studies, I examine the methodological …