Over the last 30 years, a massive body of literature has been generated for explaining how
individuals and groups make/give sense to their experiences in organizations. Reviews on …

A considerable body of literature exists on narratives and stories in explaining how
individuals and groups make and give sense to their experiences in organizations. Classic …

Developing and evaluating scientific knowledge and its value requires a clear–or at least not
too unclear–understanding of what 'theory'means. We argue that common definitions of …

Research on crisis management and resilience has sought to explain how individuals and
organizations anticipate and respond to adversity, yet—surprisingly—there has been little …

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

Over the past 25 years, scholars have produced a wide variety of organizational
improvisation (OI) scholarship from multiple fields that has improved our understanding of …

In the first edition of this handbook, Powell and Colyvas (2008) argued that much could be
gained by making the microfoundations of institutional theory more explicit. That chapter …

Organizations, especially, multinationals, inevitably confront contradictory challenges. One
crucial challenge is the value of strategic consistency versus the value of rapid change …

In this ethnographic study of firefighters we explore how routines are coordinated under high
levels of temporal uncertainty—when the timing of critical events cannot be known in …

The growing relevance of improvisation for successful organizing calls for a better
understanding of how individuals develop improvisation skills. While research has …