Organizing Thoughts and Connecting Brains: Material Practices and the Transition from Individual to Group-Level Prospective Sensemaking
- 1 October 2012
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal
- Vol. 55 (5), 1232-1259
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2010.0890
Abstract
A growing body of research is drawing attention to the material practices that support verbal exchanges and cognitive processes in collective sensemaking. In this study, building on an ethnographic study of a design consulting firm, we develop a process model that accounts for the interplay between conversational and material practices in the transition from individual to group-level sensemaking, and we begin to unpack how the “materialization” of cognitive work supports the collective construction of new shared understandings.Keywords
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