Karl E. Weick (1936) Organisational psychologist
Weick (1993, p. 635), as cited in: Bruce K. Berger, Juan Meng (2014), Public Relations Leaders as Sensemakers, p. 7
1980s-1990s
“To talk about sensemaking is to talk about reality as an ongoing accomplishment that takes form when people make retrospective sense of the situations in which they find themselves and their creations. There is a strong reflexive quality to this process. People make sense of things by seeing a world on which they already imposed what they believe. In other words, people discover their own inventions. This is why sensemaking can be understood as invention and interpretations understood as discovery. These are complementary ideas. If sensemaking is viewed as an act of invention, then it is also possible to argue that the artifacts it produces include language games and texts.”
Source: 1980s-1990s, Sensemaking in Organizations, 1995, p. 15
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