The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster

This is a revised version of the KatzNewcomb lecture presented at the University of Michigan, April 23-24, 1993. The 1993 lecture celebrated the life of Rensis Likert, the founding director of the Institute for Social Relations. All three people honored at the lecture-Dan Katz, Ted Newcomb, and Ren Likert-were born in 1903, which meant this lecture also celebrated their 90th birthdays. I am grateful to Lance Sandelands, Debra Meyerson, Robert Sutton, Doug Cowherd, and Karen Weick for their help in revising early drafts of this material. I also want to thank John Van Maanen, J. Richard Hackman, Linda Pike, and the anonymous ASQ reviewers for their he lp with later drafts.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI

• Publication date

  2009-02-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Sociology, Business

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  DOI 10.3280/so2008-002009
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