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This article investigates responses to a gas pipeline explosion as a means of uncovering the methods that organizations and other participants use to make sense during disaster and to change situations. Sensemaking deals with how organizations and…
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This article summarizes Kaplan and Norton’s earlier work on the “balanced scorecard” system, a set of measures designed to give a manager an overview of business performance. This comprehensive scorecard system is grounded in an organization’s…
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Using the USDA Forest Service as an example, Bullis shows how decision making is largely determined by decision premises. Examples of premises include values, beliefs, and more broadly, culture. Bullis explores the ability of organizations to…
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In this article, Kofman and Senge explore shifts in contemporary management principles. They argue that the common organizational complaints of reactiveness, competition, and fragmentation are larger societal issues. These problems cannot simply be…
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The death of 13 men in the Mann Gulch fire disaster, made famous in Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire, is analyzed as the interactive disintegration of role structure and sensemaking in a minimal organization. Four potential sources of resilience…
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The Mann Gulch fire, which over ran 16 firefighters in 1949, is analyzed to show its probable movement with respect to the crew. The firefighters were smokejumpers who had parachuted near the fire on August 5, 1949. While they were moving to a…
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