Making sense of heterogeneous innovative social action: co-constructing the past and imagining the future

Ferreira, Ana; Teixeira, Ana Lúcia; Dantas, Ana Nestal de Almeida Martins Roque

doi:10.1080/03906701.2021.2015980

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“…The authors argued that social realities and interactions cannot be fully understood without considering these discursive practices. Ferreira et al. (2021) studied heterogeneous innovative social action to understand how powerful social actors impose their narratives on others, and Moilanen et al.…”

Section: Points Of Connectivity and Distance Between Csm And Iwmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the gap! Building bridges between institutional work and critical sensemaking

Mills,

Eriksson,

Aromaa

et al. 2023

JOCM

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to address research gaps relating to agency and institutionalism in new institutional theory (NIT) and institutional work (IW) and use the critical sensemaking (CSM) approach to bridge the debates around agency, especially on issues of language and discourse, actor network theory (ANT) and history.Design/methodology/approachA conceptual analysis of the literature is performed to discuss issues of agency in IW and CSM in organizations, and examples of empirical studies are used to illustrate connectivity, contrast and fusion.FindingsThe analysis illustrates points of distance (rather than disconnect), but most importantly, connectivity and the potential for further developments between the literature on IW and CSM.Social implicationsDiscussion around new possibilities to focus on agency has the potential to contribute to humanist thinking about the (agentic) character of organizations and the potential for social change.Originality/valueThe article contributes to the discussion of agency in the organization through a starting point (i.e. CSM) outside of NIT.

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Section: Points Of Connectivity and Distance Between Csm And Iwmentioning

confidence: 99%