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 …

Emerging economies are characterized by an increasing market orientation and an
expanding economic foundation. The success of many of these economies is such that they …

Over the past decade, institutional researchers have relied extensively on the premise that
institutional contradictions are key drivers of institutional instability and institutional change …

In much contemporary institutional scholarship, the term 'actor'is used as a shorthand for any
entity imbued with agency. Talking about actors in institutions thus serves the necessity of …

This innovative and unique textbook describes change as a socially constructed process,
reinforced by the interactions of employees at all levels. Including video and audio …

The key to success, our culture tells us, is a combination of talent and hard work. Why then,
do high schools that supposedly subscribe to this view send students to college at such …

Gossip is pervasive at the workplace, yet receives scant attention in the sensemaking
literature and stands on the periphery of organization studies. We seek to reveal the non …

Drawing on a Buddhist context, this study examines how societal‐level environmental
changes trigger internal identity conflict within a temple between its traditional identity as a …

With this article I hope to contribute to a more adequate explanation of institutional
endurance. I argue that current explanations in the neoinstitutional literature suffer from two …

Career construction theory (CCT) provides a compelling framework for making sense of the
turbulent landscapes in which career transitions take place and a practical tool to facilitate …