Making sense of the organization / Karl E. Weick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sensemaking in Organizations: Small Structures with Large Consequences -- Sources of Order in Underorganized Systems: Themes in Recent Organizational Theory -- Organizational Redesign as Improvisation -- The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster -- The Vulnerable System: An Analysis of the Tenerife Air Disaster -- Technology as Equivoque: Sense-making in New Technologies -- Enactment Processes in Organizations -- Enactment and the Boundaryless Career -- Enacted Sensemaking in Crisis Situations -- Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems -- Collective Mind in Organizations: Heedful Interrelating on Flight Decks -- Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis -- Organizational Culture as a Source of High Reliability -- Organizations as Cause Maps -- Substitutes for Corporate Strategy -- The Attitude of Wisdom: Ambivalence as the Optimal Compromise -- Management of Organizational Change Among Loosely Coupled Elements -- Organization Design: Organizations as Self-Designing Systems -- Small Wins: Redefining the Scale of Social Problems -- Cosmos vs. Chaos: Sense and Nonsense in the Electronic Contexts -- Sensemaking as an Organizational Dimension of Global Change.