Sensemaking is the process by which people give meaning to experience. While this process has been studied by other disciplines under other names for centuries, the term "sensemaking" has primarily marked two distinct but related research areas since the 1970s. At this time, sensemaking was introduced to organizational studies by Karl Weick and to information science by Brenda Dervin. In information science the term is most often written as "sens...
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Sensemaking is the process by which people give meaning to experience. While this process has been studied by other disciplines under other names for centuries, the term "sensemaking" has primarily marked two distinct but related research areas since the 1970s. At this time, sensemaking was introduced to organizational studies by Karl Weick and to information science by Brenda Dervin. In information science the term is most often written as "sense-making." In both cases, the concept has been used to bring together insights drawn from philosophy, sociology, and cognitive science (especially social psychology). Sensemaking research is therefore often presented as an interdisciplinary research programme.
In organization studies, the concept of sensemaking was first used to focus attention on the largely cognitive activity of framing experienced situations as meaningful. It is a collaborative process of creating shared awareness and understanding out of different individuals' perspectives...
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