Book Review Essay : Karl E. Weick: Sensemaking in Organizations

This book appeared in a series entitled ’Foundations for Organizational Science’ published by Sage. The author has become one of the leading figures of the ‘alternative’ paradigm in organizational sciences following the publication of his book Social Psychology of Or‘~ani~ing in 1979. The series itself, as the introductory manifesto of the series editor, David Whetten, amply demonstrates, has been bom out of the dissatisfaction with the present state of affairs in organizational sciences. Whetten writes of a vision of the emerging ’virtual university’ and reference to this vision clearly indicates dissatisfaction with the academic and institutional limitations imposed on the growth of the sci-