2007
DOI: 10.1177/0021943606295778
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Stockholders in Cyberspace: Weick's Sensemaking Online

Abstract: The growth of individuals investing in the stock of publicly traded companies in the late 1990s coincided with the development of new media outlets for equivocal financial data. Discussion board participants enact an assortment of messages, experience a number of texts simultaneously and therefore are always immersed within a multiplicity of discourses. One such cyberspace was examined to investigate participants' sensemaking related to their financial holdings. Through the use of Weick's double interact, disc… Show more

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“…This suggests that the compression phase is significantly degraded compared to clean simulations, an interpretation reinforced by recent reaction history measurements on similar DT-filled capsules [7].…”
Section: Hydrodynamic MIXmentioning
confidence: 63%
“…This suggests that the compression phase is significantly degraded compared to clean simulations, an interpretation reinforced by recent reaction history measurements on similar DT-filled capsules [7].…”
Section: Hydrodynamic MIXmentioning
confidence: 63%
“…Thirdly, a large part of the organisational research suggests that meso-level narratives produce organisational identities (Kramer and Miller, 1999), persuade members to bring forward organisational identities (Herrmann, 2007) and constrain or enable members' engagement with the organisation (Eisenberg, 2007). This study challenges this research and stresses the boundaries of mainstream organisational research by illustrating that personal narratives can also be used as a methodological approach for the exploration of organisational identities.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, firms began to invest heavily in computer technology applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), corporate intranets and enterprise information portals to enable information sharing across business processes by integrating both internal and external publics through a standardised technological platform (Mabert et al ., 2003). Also, with the growth of computer technology in the workplace, mediated communication has become infused into nearly every business communication context, perhaps even coming to dominate certain areas such as public relations (Herrmann, 2006). One such example involves the ability to work away from the office through the use of computer technology.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%