Process, Sensemaking, and Organizing

This volume brings together perspectives on process theories, an emerging approach to the study of organizations that focuses on (understanding) activities, interactions, and change as essential properties of organizations rather than structures and state.

Introducing Perspectives on Process Organization Studies ; Process, Sensemaking, and Organizing: an Introduction ; Stop Making (Philosophical) Sense: Notes towards a Process Organizational-thinking beyond 'Philosophy' ; Co-Constitution, Causality, and Confluence: Organizing in a World without Entities ; Adopting a Process Orientation...in Practice: Chiasmic Relations, Language, and Embodiment in a Living World ; The Poetics of Process: Theorizing the Ineffable in Organization Studies ; Rediscovering Becoming: Insights from an Oriental Perspective on Process Organization Studies ; Going Back to Go Forward: On Studying Organizing in Action Nets ; Actor-Network Theory, Callon's Scallops, and Process-based Organization Studies ; Organizational Learning through Problem Absorption: a Processual View ; Temporal Sensemaking: Managers' Use of Time to Frame Organizational Change ; Studying Metaphors-in-use in their Social and Institutional Context - Sensemaking and Discourse Theory ; Future-oriented Sensemaking: Temporalities and Institutional Legitimation