Making Sense with Institutions: Context, Thought and Action in Karl Weick’s Theory
回应了卡尔·维克的意义建构理论忽视社会历史背景的批评，提出制度背景通过启动、编辑和触发三种机制融入意义建构过程，对组织研究者有启发。
Karl Weick’s sensemaking perspective has proven to be a central influence on process theories of organizing. Yet, one persistent criticism levelled at his work has been a neglect of the role of larger social and historical contexts in sensemaking. We address this critique by showing how institutional context is a necessary part of sensemaking. We propose that there are salient but unexplored connections between the institutional and sensemaking perspectives. We explain how three specific mechanisms—priming, editing and triggering—bring institutional context into processes of sensemaking, beyond a more conventional notion of internalized cognitive constraint. Our contribution seeks to be forward-looking as much as reflective, addressing a critique of one of Karl Weick’s key theoretical contributions and offering amendments that extend its reach.