Essays about: "Sensebreaking"
Found 5 essays containing the word Sensebreaking.
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1. Making sense of power in social innovation collaborations: A case study.
University essay from Lunds universitet/SocialhögskolanAbstract : A shift in the Swedish welfare state and diminishing resources has prompted new ways to address social and welfare provision issues. It is here that cross-sectoral social innovation collaborations have surfaced as an answer. READ MORE
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2. Between stability and instability : Analyzing the influence of contradictory narratives in the Gripen E development on the collective sensemaking process
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Företagsekonomi; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : A growing number of organizations developing complex innovation projects face the dilemma that complexity demands more stability, resulting in increased sensemaking efforts, whilst innovation requires instability which encourages the organization to breakdown meaning. The aim of this study is to shed light on the simultaneous need for a strong sensemaking process and a breaking down in meaning in complex innovation projects by analyzing the collective sensemaking process through a storytelling lens. READ MORE
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3. Emotions and Bureaucracy at the Border : Seeking Asylum at Migrationsverket’s Service Centre
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionenAbstract : Migrationsverket’s National Service Centre in Sundbyberg is a borderscape displaced from the outer contours of the nation. This borderscape of the interior, perform bordering and difference-making functions in its deciding of who gets to become a citizen, who is to be considered a legitimate refugee and in a sense who you are. READ MORE
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4. All on board? Exploring metaphors and the symbolic management of change: A qualitative case study in a large Swedish bank
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this paper was to develop a better understanding of the discursive, cognitive and emotional experience of symbolic management attempts of strategic change and its enactment in the organizational practice from both a managerial and a non-managerial perspective. To realize this research purpose, we conducted an explorative, ethnographically-inspired qualitative case study in a single organization. READ MORE
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5. Making Sense of MCS - a case study on how MCS become enabling or coercive through sensemaking, sensegiving and sensebreaking in a decentralized firm
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansieringAbstract : How does a management control system (MCS) come to be perceived as enabling or coercive (Ahrens & Chapman, 2004)? Although previous research has shown this to result from how actors make sense of the features of MCS (Englund & Gerdin, 2015), it has disregarded the special role of the middle manager as an intermediary (Floyd & Lane, 2000), channelling control from top management to operational staff. Using the theory of sensemaking (Weick, 1995), we attempt to shed light on this issue through a single case study with two embedded, contrasting cases in two divisions of a decentralized firm, Conglom. READ MORE
