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Sensemaking and sensegiving in strategic change initiation
Strategic Management Journal, 1991Abstract This paper reports an ethnographic study of the initiation of a strategic change effort in a large, public university. It develops a new framework for understanding the distinctive character of the beginning stages of strategic change by tracking the first year of the change through four phases (labeled as envisioning ...
Dennis A Gioia
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On the role of emotional arousal in sensegiving
Journal of Organizational Change Management, 2012PurposeThis paper aims to increase understanding of how emotional arousal could be used to enhance the adoption of new beliefs during a sensegiving episode.Design/methodology/approachCase study about the sensegiving tactics of a successful corporate coach and the reactions of 102 sense‐receivers.
Vuori Timo
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SENSEGIVING IN NASCENT INNOVATIONS
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2011How do innovators acquire formal organizational support for their early stage ideas? Innovations rarely fit well with an organization’s strategy, structure, resources or institutionalized patterns ...
Rangapriya Kannan-Narasimhan +1 more
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Sensemaking and sensegiving stories of jazz leadership
Human Relations, 2012Drawing on contemporary interviews and archival data, we explore how stories can be used as templates to guide jazz musicians’ sensemaking about the leadership of teams, what it means to be a jazz musician and what jazz is (or is not). By going beyond the metaphorical notion of jazz as improvisation, we contribute to theories of leadership by showing ...
Deniz Ucbasaran +2 more
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Ambiguous meanings of projects as facilitators of sensegiving
Journal of Nursing Management, 2014To describe mid-level nurse managers' experiences of sensegiving in the context of hospital projects.Sensegiving is about shaping and affecting how employees see themselves, their work and issues related to their work. It has been little studied in the context of hospital projects from mid-level nurse managers' point of view.Mid-level nurse managers (n
Nina, Lunkka, Marjo, Suhonen
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Triggers And Enablers Of Sensegiving In Organizations
Academy of Management Journal, 2007Drawing on a longitudinal study of sensegiving in organizations, we investigate the conditions associated with sensegiving by stakeholders and by leaders.
Sally Maitlis, Thomas B. Lawrence
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Sensegiving and the role of cognitive shifts in the work of leadership
Leadership Quarterly, 2008Abstract Sensegiving—shaping how people understand themselves, their work, and others engaged in that work—is critical to the work of organizational leadership. We propose the “cognitive shift,” a change in how an organizational audience understands an important element of the organization's work, as a desired outcome of the sensegiving process ...
Erica Gabrielle Foldy
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Paradoxical leadership as sensegiving
2022Purpose Paradoxical leadership (PL) is an emerging perspective to understand how leaders help followers deal with paradoxical demands. Recently, the positive relationship between PL and follower performance was established. This paper builds on and extends this research by interpreting PL as sensegiving and developing theory about mediation in the ...
Sparr, Jennifer L. +2 more
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Data-driven sensegiving and sensemaking: a phenomenological investigation
Information Technology & PeoplePurpose Business analytics (BA) is a new frontier of technology development and has enormous potential for value creation. Information systems research shows ample evidence of its positive business impacts and organizational performance.
Morteza Namvar +3 more
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The Politics of Middle Management Sensemaking and Sensegiving
Journal of Change Management, 2010Middle managers play an important role when organizational change is to be implemented. The objective of this article is to identify what political tactics middle managers exert to influence change outcome. A qualitative study of middle managers in an insurance company reveals how middle managers through political actions influence the sensemaking of ...
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