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Further Resources
For recent writings by Weick, see:
o Weick discusses idea generation in his article, “Mundane Poetics: Searching for
Wisdom in Organizational Studies,” Organizational Studies 25, 4 (2004): 653-
68.
o In his article for the special issue of British Journal of Managament on new
directions in organizational learning, Weick discusses the imagination and its
role in learning, “Puzzles in Organizational Learning: An Exercise in Disciplined
Imagination,” British Journal of Management 13 (2002): S7-S15.
o In their 2001 book, Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an
Age of Complexity (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass), Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe
examine how high reliability organizations such as aircraft carriers and
firefighting crews organize themselves in such a way as to manage the
unexpected.
o Weick offers a characteristically innovative, articulate critique of current
organizational studies in “Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational
Studies,” Administrative Science Quarterly 41 (1996): 301-13.
Fredric M. Jablin and Michael W. Kramer offer a recent application of sensemaking in
“Communication-Related Sense-Making and Adjustment during Job Transfers,”
Management Communication Quarterly 12 (November 1998): 155-82.
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