The literature on knowing and learning in organizations is dominated by mental or textual explanations. In contrast, recent findings in the field of cognitive and brain sciences have shown that embodiment is crucial for understanding how people behave knowledgeable, make sense, and organize...

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....