Person

Karl E Weick

Organizational theorist of sensemaking—how people enact and retrospectively rationalize meaning under ambiguity.

Why this matters

Weick is central to how meaning moves, organizes, and rewrites itself under pressure.

Works

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Sensemaking in Organizations

Weick, Karl E. *Sensemaking in Organizations*. Foundations for Organizational Science. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995.

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The Social Psychology of Organizing

Weick, Karl E. *The Social Psychology of Organizing*. 2nd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1979.

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