Knowledge Communication in Global Organisations

2 Discursive Sensemaking Analysis – a foundation

DOI: 10.4324/9781003015925-3

Chapter Contents

Sensemaking in organisations

Identity in Weick’s theory of Sensemaking

Sensemaking and the virtual work environment

Sensemaking and storytelling

References

This chapter introduces Weick’s Sensemaking theory (Weick, 1995, 2001) as a lens for understanding how employees build knowledge communication practices. Weick’s Sensemaking theory can thus be seen as a scaffold supporting all other chapters in the present volume. Weick has defined Sensemaking as ‘the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalize what people are doing’ (Weick, 2008, p. 1403). Weick’s theory additionally provides a theory of identity formations and interpretations ...