Process Sensemaking and Organizing

Process Sensemaking and Organizing is the first in a series of volumes which explore 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 - an approach which prioritizes activity over product change over persistence novelty over continuity and expression over determination.Process and sensemaking may be seen as mutually interlocking phenomena and as such are cornerstones in process thinking This volume brings together contributions from an international group of scholars energized by process organization studies. The collection offers perspectives from different disciplines insights from diverse theoretical traditions and contexts and parallels made with a range of cultural forms including art poetry and cookery. At the same time the chapters exhibit a clear emphasis on a process ontology process theorizing and narrative thinking. Across this rich and varied collection recurrent themes emerge that distinguish process theorizing from the more logico-scientific variance-oriented research that dominates organization studies today. This book will appeal to academics researchers and graduate students in management organization studies and sociology who wish to better understand the emergent changing and flow-like character of organizational life and expand their understanding of the nature of sensemaking as a basis for organizing.