The literature on sensemaking in organizations is characterized by a one-sided emphasis on mental or textual explanations regarding (1) how actors make sense of events, (2) how intelligent behaviour is conceptualized and (3) how agents understand each others intention and coordinate action....

Surprises occur when organizations try to exceed the limits of their capabilities. The surprises include both serious accidents and remarkable discoveries. The idea that organizations have limits sheds light on a systemic source of organizational accidents and an important and increasingly...

While there is continual scholarly interest in the organization as theatre metaphor, extant dramaturgical perspectives limit the ability to account for aesthetic experiences in theatrical situations. This study provides a different methodological lens for looking at theatre in organizations and...

The paper interrogates the status, nature and significance of epistemological relativism as a key element of constructionism and critical realism. It finds that epistemological relativism is espoused by authorities in critical realism and marginalised or displaced in the field of management and...

This paper examines the interaction and development of tacit (informal) knowledge networks and how knowledge transfers occur within an intelligent transport organization (ITS Australia). The work is informed on a biological theory of organization combining Maturana and Varela's concept of...