This study examines the managerial sensemaking process around business models. Drawing on fieldwork, this study introduces a model to describe how managerial sensemaking occurs around business model development and use. This study shows that managerial sensemaking around business models occurs...

Part 1 Leadership, organizational change and sensemaking introduced 1. What are Leadership and Organizational Change? 2. What is sensemaking and how can you observe it in practice? 3. Epiphanies and crossing the Rubicon: The drama of moving from old to new realities Part 2 The nine elements 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...

"Organizational change literature focuses on the leaders role in giving sense to others of the need for change and there is a plethora of models and recipes on how to influence employees thinking about change, organizational design and performance. Notwithstanding this ready supply of advice,...

This article addresses how top management leadership behaviors matter in innovative interventions in organizations. A comparison of six cases of artistic interventions in four countries reveals that lack of visible top management support and sense-making orientation during and after the process...

This dissertation is based on a longitudinal ethnographic study of organizational changes in a Nordic bank. Taking as a point of departure, an empirical observation of lower-level organizational members consistently identifying other organizational changes as radical than those indicated by top...