Sensemaking and Politics in MNCs

Sensemaking and politics in MNCs: A comparative analysis of vocabularies within the global manufacturing discourse in one industrial sector1

This paper compares sensemaking processes in MNCs situated in the same industrial sector. Our comparative analysis of three MNCs and its subsidiaries in Germany and the UK aims to shed light on the contextual dimension (institutions, culture and politics) of the sensemaking process. First we discuss ideologies related to the discourse about global restructuring of manufacturing. Second, we comp...

MNCs and Interdependencies in Internationalisation Processes

The literature on internationalisation processes has largely been concerned with the trajectory of a subsidiary unit in its host country. Following Johanson and Vahlne’s (1990) suggestion refining the Uppsala model, in this paper we consider how simultaneous and interdependent internationalisation processes in multinational corporations can interact over time. Using the case of the historical t...

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Sensemaking and emotion in organizations

Emotion is a critical but relatively unexplored dimension of sensemaking in organizations. Existing models of sensemaking tend to ignore the role of emotion or portray it as an impediment. To address this problem, we explore the role that felt emotion plays in three stages of individual sensemaking in organizations. First, we examine emotion’s role in mediating the relationship between unexpect...

Intentionality, Politics, And Religion

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...