Events and Action Networks in Organizational Studies: Their Relationship to Sensemaking and Meaning
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Recently, postmodern critiques of traditional sociological theories have discussed whether events have structural value in destructured societies and whether events constitute a path of change in societies that live in permanent change.
Within organizational studies, these critiques have not been ignored. Numerous researchers have attempted to define, interpret, and characterize the occurrence of events within organizations. Others have addressed the importance of studying chains of events constructed by action networks.
This approach seeks to address the peculiarity, simultaneity, and multiplicity of events present in the act of organizing, which are joined and linked by actors in the construction of stories within organizations.
This paper proposes a literature review aimed at determining differences and points of convergence in the relationship among Event Theory, Action Networks, Sensemaking, and Meaning, in order to reflect on the importance of these concepts for the construction of meaning among the members of an organization.
Downloads
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The author/s grant exclusive license without temporary limit for the manuscript to be published in Cuadernos-FHyCS edited by Humanides the Faculty of Social Science, National University of Jujuy.
References
Bakken, T. y Hernes, T. (2006) Organizing is both a verb and a noun: Weick meets Whitehead. Organization Studies, 27, (11), pp. 1599-1616.
Carroll, L. (2005) Aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas. (Trad. J. de Ojeda). Madrid, Ediciones Akal.
Czarniawska, B. (2004) On time, space and action nets. Organization, 11, (6), pp. 773-791.
Czarniawska, B. (2015) A Theory of Organizing (2.ª ed.). Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Daft, R. L. y Weick, K. E. (1984) Toward a model of organizations as interpretation systems. Academy of Management Review, 9, (2), pp. 284-295.
Davidson, D. (1970) Mental events. En: L. Foster y J. W. Swanson (Eds.), Experience and Theory. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 79-101.
Deleuze, G. (1993) The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. (Trad. T. Conley). Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.
Deleuze, G. (2002) Diferencia y repetición. (Trad. M. S. Delpy y H. Beccacece). Buenos Aires, Amorrortu Editores.
Deleuze, G. (2005) Lógica del sentido. (Trad. Á. L. Bixio). Buenos Aires, Editorial Paidós.
Dewey, J. (1929) The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action. Nueva York, Minton, Balch & Company.
Dewey, J. (2002 [1922]) Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology. Mineola, Dover Publications.
Dosse, F. (2009) Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari: biografía cruzada. (Trad. P. Ires). Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE).
Gioia, D. A. et al. (1994) Symbolism and strategic change in academia: the dynamics of sensemaking and influence. Organization Science, 5, (3), pp. 363-383.
Hernes, T. (2014) A Process Theory of Organization. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Morgeson, F. P., Mitchell, T. R. y Liu, D. (2015) Event system theory: an event-oriented approach to the organizational sciences. Academy of Management Review, 40, (4), pp. 515-537.
Pósleman, C. (2014) Lenguaje y realidad: entre el monismo anómalo y la fórmula monismo=pluralismo. Estudios de Filosofía, (13), pp. 144-154.
Rodríguez Serón, A. (2000) Monismo anómalo, irreductibilidad y ciencias cognitivas. Contrastes: Revista Interdisciplinar de Filosofía, 5, pp. 161-176. Málaga, Universidad de Málaga.
Runde, J. y de Rond, M. (2010) Evaluating causal explanations of specific events. Organization Studies, 31, (4), pp. 431-450.
Taylor, J. R. y Van Every, E. J. (1999) The Emergent Organization: Communication as Its Site and Surface. Londres, Routledge.
Tsoukas, H. y Chia, R. (2002) Organizational becoming: rethinking organizational change. Organization Science, 13, (5), pp. 567-582.
Tsoukas, H. y Chia, R. (2011) Introduction: why philosophy matters to organization theory. En: H. Tsoukas y R. Chia (Eds.), Philosophy and Organization Theory (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 32). Bingley, Emerald Group Publishing, pp. 1-21.
Weick, K. E. (1974) Amendments to organizational theorizing. Academy of Management Journal, 17, (3), pp. 487-502.
Weick, K. E. (1995) Sensemaking in Organizations. Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications.
Weick, K. E. (2012) Organized sensemaking: a commentary on processes of interpretive work. Human Relations, 65, (1), pp. 141-153.
Weick, K. E. y Quinn, R. E. (1999) Organizational change and development. Annual Review of Psychology, 50, pp. 361-386.
Weick, K. E. y Sutcliffe, K. M. (2015) Managing the Unexpected: Sustained Performance in a Complex World (3.ª ed.). Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons.
Weick, K. E., Sutcliffe, K. M. y Obstfeld, D. (2005) Organizing and the process of sensemaking. Organization Science, 16, (4), pp. 409-421.
Williams, J. (2009) Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide. Edimburgo, Edinburgh University Press.