InhaltsangabePreface.



Acknowledgments.



PART I INTRODUCTION.



1. Organized Impermanence: An Overview.



2. Mundane Poetics: Searching for Wisdom in Organizational Theory.



3. Faith, Evidence, and Action: Better Guesses in an Unknowable World.



PART II ATTENDING.



4. Managing the Unexpected: Complexity as Distributed Sensemaking.



5. Information Overload Revisited (Kathleen M. Sutcliffe and Karl. E Weick).



6. Organizing for Mindfulness: Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge (Karl E. Weick and Ted Putnam).



PART III INTERPRETATION.



7. Making Sense of Blurred Images: Mindful Organizing in Mission STS-107.



8. Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking (Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, and David Obstfeld).



9. Impermanent Systems and Medical Errors: Variety Mitigates Adversity.



PART IV ACTION.



10. Hospitals as Cultures of Entrapment: A Re-analysis of the Bristol Royal Infirmary (Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe).



11. Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure of Organizing.



12. Positive Organizing and Organizational Tragedy.



PART V LEARNING AND CHANGE.



13. Emergent Change as a Universal in Organizations.



14. Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies.



15. Leadership as the Legitimation of Doubt.



Epilogue.



References.



Index.