In Weick’s discussion of sensemaking in organizations, he engages a process-oriented perspective toward sensemaking and discusses the difference between sensemaking and interpretation. I found that the differentiation speaks to a fundamental outlook on the nature of knowledge; that is, whether knowledge exists to be discovered (interpretation) or whether knowledge is created (sensemaking.) This points to […]
Organizations and Enacted Environments
Sewell on Giddens on Structure and Agency
In Sewell’s criticism of Giddens’ discussion of structuration theory, he finds the idea of a virtual nonhuman resource implausible, but information is a resource that can be virtual and nonhuman, while also being human and actual. Information as a resource can take many forms; information embedded in individuals or processes would seem to be […]