Anna Jonsson
Universitetslektor
Organizational dischronization: On meaning and meaninglessness, sensemaking and nonsensemaking
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper contributes to close up studies of how members in organizations experience and act in relationship to what is broadly and vaguely referred to as institutionalized structures and practices. Based on a case study about scorecards, a quality control system, it is illustrated that this practice works poorly, because of inconsistent ideas of purpose and functioning. We introduce the concept of organizational dischronization (OD) to illuminate this. OD indicates a deviation from the ideal of shared or synchronized meanings, and the existence of diverging understandings and lack of clarification of this, in an organization. The paper challenges some core ideas of institutional theory (logics) and sensemaking, suggesting the use of counter concepts such is organizational illogics and nonsensemaking, thus opening up for a broader and less ‘smooth’ understanding of how institutions and sensemaking work than assumed in the literature.
Avdelning/ar
- Organisation
Publiceringsår
2022
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
724-754
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Management Studies
Volym
59
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Business Administration
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1467-6486