by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Enactment Theory? Enactment, per Weick (1988), is the effect that when people act they bring structures and events into existence and set them in action. The process of enactment involves two steps. First, preconceptions are used to set aside portions of the...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Institutional Theory? Institutional theory considers the processes by which structures, including schemes, rules, norms, and routines, become established as authoritative guidelines for social behavior. What Does Institutional Theory Explain?Different...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Population Ecology? Population ecology is the study of dynamic changes (beginning, end, organizational forms) within a given set of organizations. Adaptation vs SelectionHannan & Freeman (1989) believe that long-term change in the diversity of...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Sense Making?Sensemaking or sense-making is the process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences. It has been defined as “the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalize what people are doing” Wick,...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is the Open System Model of Katz and Kahn?The open systems model, proposed by Katz and Kahn, developed a framework for open-systems theory that encompasses: (1) energic inputs into the organizations; (2) the transformation of those inputs within the system; ...
