The View from Earth

Ruel, Stefanie

doi:10.1108/s2059-65612019001

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“…Other studies focused on the interplay between power and agency, such as Paludi and Helms Mills (2013), Montonen et al. (2018) and Ruel (2018). Of the 25 papers analyzed, seven studies specifically highlighted the value of CSM in understanding agency and capturing its local meaning in various contexts, such as organizational change (Thurlow and Helms Mills, 2009), immigration (Hilde, 2013, 2017; Hilde and Mills, 2015, 2017), restorative justice (Bishop, 2014) and work and care (Tomkins and Eatough, 2014).…”

Section: Critical Sensemaking: Insights On Agencymentioning

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“…For instance, Carroll et al (2008) addressed power and resistance; Mills and Helms Mills (2017) examined agency in the context of organizational rules; Cherneski (2018) studied the influence of macro-level discourse; and Ruel et al (2018) investigated identity. Other studies focused on the interplay between power and agency, such as Paludi and Helms Mills (2013), Montonen et al (2018) and Ruel (2018). Of the 25 papers analyzed, seven studies specifically highlighted the value of CSM in understanding agency and capturing its local meaning in various contexts, such as organizational change (Thurlow and Helms Mills, 2009), immigration (Hilde, 2013(Hilde, , 2017Mills, 2015, 2017), restorative justice (Bishop, 2014) and work and care (Tomkins and Eatough, 2014).…”

Section: Critical Sensemaking: Insights On Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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