Process, sensemaking, and organizing / edited by Tor Hernes and Sally Maitlis.

This volume brings together perspectives on process theories, an emerging approach to the study of organizations that focuses on (understanding) activities, interactions, and change as essential properties of organizations rather than structures and state.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing "Perspectives on process organization studies" / Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas -- Process, sensemaking, and organizing : an introduction / Tor Hernes and Sally Maitlis -- Stop making (philosophical) sense : notes towards a process organizational-thinking beyond "Philosophy" / John Mullarkey -- Co-constitution, causality, and confluence : organizing in a world without entities / Kenneth J. Gergen -- Adopting a process orientation ... in practice : chiasmic relations, language, and embodiment in a living world / John Shotter -- The poetics of process : theorizing the ineffable in organization studies / Karl E. Weick -- Rediscovering becoming : insights from an Oriental perspective on process organization studies / Robert Chia -- Going back to go forward : on studying organizing in action nets / Barbara Czarniawska -- Actor-network theory, Callon's scallops, and process-based organization studies / Tor Hernes -- Organizational learning though [sic] problem absorption : a processual view / Sergey E. Osadchiy, Irma Bogenrieder, and Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens -- Temporal sensemaking : managers' use of time to frame organizational change / Elden Wiebe -- Studying metaphors-in-use in their social and institutional context : sensemaking and discourse theory / Silvia Jordan and Hermann Mitterhofer -- Future-oriented sensemaking : temporalities and institutional legitimation / Robert P. Gephert, Cagri Topal, and Zhen Zhang.

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