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Recent Sensemaking Research

Articles

Papadimitriou, K. and Pellegrin, C. (2007).  Dynamics of a project through intermediary objects of design (IODs):  A sensemaking perspective.  International Journal of Project Management, 25 (5), 437-445.  Click here for article abstract.

Roux-Dufort, C. (2007).  Is criris management (only) a management of exceptions?  Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 15 (2), 105-114.  Click here for article abstract.

Anderson, M. H. and Nichols, M. L. (2007).  Information gathering and changes in threat and opportunity perceptions.  Journal of Management Studies, 44 (3), 367-387.  Click here for article abstract.

Myers, P. (2007).  Sexed up intelligence or irresponsible reporting?  The interplay of virtual communication and emotion in dispute sensemaking.  Human Relations, 60 (4), 609-636.  Click here for article abstract.

Du Toit, A. (2007).  Making sense through coaching.  Journal of Management Development, 26 (3), 282-291.  Click here for article abstract.

Maitlis, S. and Lawrence, T. B. (2007).  Triggers and enablers of sensegiving in organizations.  Academy of Management Journal, 50 (1), 57-84.  Click here for article abstract.

Stensaker, I. and Falkenberg, J. (2007).  Making sense of different responses to corporate change.  Human Relations, 60 (1), 137-177.  Click here for article abstract.

Kewell, B. J. (2006).  Language games and tragedy:  The Bristol Royal Infirmary disaster revisited.  Health, Risk, and Society, 8 (4), 359-377.  Click here for article abstract.

Blatt, R., Christianson, M. K., and Sutcliffe, K. M. (2006).  A sensemaking lens on reliability.  Journal of Organizational Behavior, 27 (7), 491-515.  Click here for article abstract.

Mills, J. H., Weatherbee, T. G., and Colwell, S. R. (2006).  Ethnostatistics and sensemaking:  Making sense of university and business school accreditation rankings. Organizational Research Methods, 9 (4), 491-515.   Click here for article abstract.

Tracy, S. J., Myers, K. K., and Scott, C. W. (2006).  Cracking jokes and crafting selves:  Sensemaking and identity management among human service workers. Communication Monographs, 73 (3), 283-308. Click here for article abstract.

Foldy, E. G. (2006).  Dueling schemata:  Dialectical sensemaking about gender.  Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42 (3), 350-372.  Click here for article abstract.

Roberson, Q. M. (2006).  Justice in teams:  The activation and role of sensemaking in the emergence of justice climates.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 100 (2), 177-192.  Click here for article abstract.

Bartunek, J. M., Rousseau, D. M., and Rudolph, J. W. (2006).  On the receiving end:  Sensemaking, emotion, and assessments of an organizational change initiated by others.  Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 42 (2), 182-206.  Click here for the article abstract.

Uren, V., Shum, S. B., and Bachler, M. (2006).  Sensemaking tools for understanding research literature: Design, implementation, and user evaluation.  International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 64 (5), 420-445.  Click here for the article abstract.

Bean, C. J. and Hamilton, F. E. (2006).  Leader framing and follower sensemaking:  Response to downsizing in the brave new workplace.  Human Relations, 59 (3), 321-349.  Click here for article abstract.

Henningsen, D. D., Henningson, M. L. M., and Eden, J. (2006).  Examining the symptoms of groupthink retrospective sensemaking.  Small Group Research, 37 (1), 36-64. Click here for the article abstract.


Dissertations

Haring, E. R. (2006).  Between-worlds tensions:  A grounded theory of repatriate sensemaking. Fielding Graduate University.

Naidooo, L. J. (2006).  Effects of leaders on follower goal striving processes:  Cognitive and emotional sensemaking mechanisms.  University of Akron.

Cahill, T. F. (2006).  CEO sensemaking in turbulent environments.  George Washington University.

Beebe, M. R. (2006).  Making sense of competing values in organizations:  A psychological phenomenological study with practicing oncologists in teaching hospitals.  George Washington University.

Dewulf, A. (2006).  Issue framing in multi-actor contexts:  How people make sense of issues through negotiating meaning, enacting discourse and doing differences.  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Dymek, C. (2005).  Action sensemaking:  Making sense of technology using action research principles. Pepperdine University.

Vereen, S. E. (2005).  An administrator's life:  Stories of ambiguity, power, and sensemaking at an elite university.  University of Pennsylvania.