Using Sensemaking Technique to Construct Scientific Explanations in Organizational Research

Using Business Intelligence to Support the Process of Organizational Sensemaking

Making sense of an organization overwhelmed with data becomes a problem for decision makers at all levels of business planning and operation. Although scholars have suggested several technological solutions such as business intelligence as being useful in helping busy executives to make decisions, we still know little about assisting business stakeholders in the process of understanding their o...

Using photography to research organizational

Guiding Scientific Discovery with Explanations Using DEMUD

In the era of large scientific data sets, there is an urgent need for methods to automatically prioritize data for review. At the same time, for any automated method to be adopted by scientists, it must make decisions that they can understand and trust. In this paper, we propose Discovery through Eigenbasis Modeling of Uninteresting Data (DEMUD), which uses principal components modeling and rec...

The Construct of Organizational Integration: A Research Framework and Its Application to Enterprise Systems Research

Organizational theories often rely on notions of coordination, interdependence, and responsiveness to analyze how business processes and units depend on each other and contribute to organizational performance. Defined as the responsiveness of the distinct processes and technologies of the entire value chain of an organization, the construct of organizational integration (OI) captures the essenc...

The Social Processes of Organizational Sensemaking

A longitudinal study of the social processes of organizational sensemaking suggests that they unfold in four distinct forms: guided, fragmented, restricted, and minimal. These forms result from the degree to which leaders and stakeholders engage in “sensegiving”—attempts to influence others’ understandings of an issue. Each of the four forms of organizational sensemaking is associated with a di...