Karl E. Weick’s research while affiliated with University of Michigan and other places

... To move from fragments of experience to collective understandings (Rerup, Gioia, and Corley, 2022), actors must produce valid inferences, which emerge through a process of inquiry whereby they develop and discover plausible explanations of how cues fit into their environment, and test them (Christianson, 2019;Golden-Biddle, 2020;Weick, 2024). Standard learning theory assumes that actors develop valid understanding from a sample of data by aggregating similar experiences (Argote and Miron-Spektor, 2011;Maslach et al., 2018). ...

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The Dynamics of Inferential Interpretation in Experiential Learning: Deciphering Hidden Goals from Ambiguous Experience

... While development of trust in the longer term is rightly seen as an important element to successful HRTs in many contexts, changes in trust could be particularly problematic in teams that have formed on an ad hoc basis [23]. This might occur quite often in emergency scenarios where team members may not have previously worked together, where a certain degree of 'swift trust' will need to be assumed to give team members the necessary confidence in each other to cooperate [17]. Much research on HRT trust has also been focused on agent dyads (a human trustor and a robot trustee), with relatively little work done on real experiments with multiple, mobile robots. ...

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Swift Trust in Mobile Ad Hoc Human-Robot Teams

... A prática de construção de estratégias, ou seja, o movimento durante a prática, entendido como strategizing, coloca um novo enfoque na estratégia, havendo a necessidade da construção e produção do seu significado (Whittington, 2006). O sensemaking, considerado o processo de criação de sentido, que ocorre durante as ações estratégicas, caracteriza a construção de significado nas organizações de forma coletiva, transcendendo à dimensão intrassubjetiva e assumindo uma dimensão intersubjetiva (Weick, 1973(Weick, , 2022. Dessa forma, o sensemaking exige dos estrategistas a capacidade de se comunicarem e tentarem influenciar na elaboração desse sentido, que é o objetivo do sensegiving (Gioia & Chittipeddi, 1991). ...

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Sensemaking e Sensegiving na Formação da Estratégia Considerando as Práticas de Open Strategizing

... The constructivist approach utilized Weick et al. (2009) sensemaking as organizing. Sensemaking "unfolds as a sequence in which people concerned with identity in the social context of other actors engage ongoing circumstances from which they extract cues and make plausible sense retrospectively, while enacting more or less order into those ongoing circumstances" (Weick et al., 2009, p. 83). ...

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Narratives of living through Ebola: An exploration of a Liberian community’s agency

... The sense-making theory assumes unusual events (e.g., change initiatives) lead to task uncertainty and lead employees to search for feedback and cues from their environments to reconstruct the predictability of work procedures. If they receive feedback and cues signaling the existence of a conducive organizational climate, they tend to respond positively (Weick, 2021). This means that employees tend to respond positively to change initiatives in an organizational climate that enables employees to take the initiative when necessary and feel psychologically safe to criticize change attempts (Cristofaro, 2022). ...

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Examining the relationship between perceived organizational support and teachers’ resistance to change: the mediating effects of climate for initiative and psychological safety

... Given the wealth and plurality of pragmatist approaches (Parmar, Phillips, & Freeman, 2016, p. 200) and Weick's attempts to create a 'mosaic' (Weick, 2020(Weick, , p. 1421) from a range of philosophies, his adoption of pragmatism is necessarily selective. 2 However, investigating what Weick takes from pragmatist philosophy may help us become aware of, and comprehend, some of the foundational assumptions of sensemaking theory, better enabling us to contrast these with alternative assumptions that could allow us to develop different and ultimately richer conceptualizations. ...

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Flipping Sensemaking on its Head: From common sense to sensus communis

... All include a variant of the principle of knowledgeability, such as, for example, the notion of shared practical understanding (Schatzki, 2001), habitus (Bourdieu, 1990), or practical consciousness (Giddens, 1984), to name a few. Closer to organization studies, Weick (2017) would call this "mindfulness" while Le Baron et al. (2016) propose the notion of "mutual intelligibility" and Sandberg et al. (2017) suggest the idea of paying attention to actors' "skillful" performance. All of these conceptualizations, one way or another, invite us to see strategy (as well as any other type of managerial and organizational work) as an ongoing social accomplishment informed by actors' practical knowledge within the specific context in which it is embedded. ...

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EXPRESS: It’s strategy. But is it practice? Desperately seeking social practice in SAP research

... March and Simon (1958) brought the discussion and study of organisations into the academic arena. They illustrated the nature of the "limits of rationality" at the limits of individuals constrained by the elements of the situation that are not included in the rational calculations supporting the strategic factors (Weick, 2019(Weick, , p. 1531). Hedström and Swedberg (1998) see March and Simon's (1958) present rational constraints in decisionmaking as an example of theorising with social mechanisms. ...

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Pragmatic View of Research of Organisations

... Decision-making is incidental; sensemaking is paramount. To focus on decision is to miss most of what it means to reduce uncertainty and most of the ways emergent organizing attempts this reduction," Karl Weick (55). ...

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The Counterintuitive Characteristics of High-Reliability Organizing (HRO): Infrastructures Impair the Implementation of HRO

... Los individuos experimentan sentimientos, pensamientos y recuerdos, los cuales pueden ser dolorosos, exitosos, intensos, entre otros. La tendencia innata de evitar experiencias dolorosas y repetir las intensas, puede generar dependencia al camino (Cameron 1994;Cameron et al. 1987;Morseletto 2023;Staw et al. 1981;Weick 1993;Weick & Sutcliffe 2000) y distracción en la identificación de oportunidades (Marín et al. 2010;Morseletto 2023). En este orden de ideas, la historia de vida posee gran influencia al tomar decisiones . ...

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Metanoia: Aprendizaje Organizacional Significativo para Adoptar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible