We suggest that a systematic socio-cognitive approach to “competitive sensemaking”has been absent from theory and research on competitive strategy. We define competitivesensemaking as the social and cognitive processes that underlie how firms detect, define, andconceptualize their...

Audit firms in the UK are currently striving to embrace a ‘Diversity’ agenda in their management control and recruitment processes. In spite of a clear commitment to diversity, as diversity policies roll out, the pace of change is slow, particularly at senior levels. This is the so-called...

This practitioner paper is based on the need to make sense of UN Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city level and in an urban context. We examine the need to explain how to utilise the SDGs in strategic, tactical and operative urban development. We find that there are...

Purpose: The aim of this research study was to establish via a linguistic analysis of stakeholder communication texts, how organisational sensemaking in a crisis situation, such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, might influence the social responsibility orientation of...

This article aims to comprehend and analyze how dynamic capabilities develop from the interaction between sensemaking and experiential learning within the context of planned organizational change. A multiple case study has been developed in four companies from different sectors, involving...

This article explores impact investing within the renewable energy sector. Drawing on ethical decision making and sensemaking, this article contributes to an enhanced understanding of the complex ethical sensemaking process of impact investors when facing plausible situations in a world of...

Wie verstehen Organisationen Kontexte, welche schlicht noch gar nicht existieren? Diese Dissertation untersucht mit einer Strategy as Practice Perspektive wie strategisches Sensemaking in Bezug auf zukünftige Situationen und entstehende Kontexte stattfinden kann. Während sich die existierende...