From boat to bags: The role of material chronotopes in adaptive sensemaking

In following a material turn in communications, this paper explores how adaptive sensemaking in an extreme context is materially framed and reframed through both time and space. By drawing upon an ethnographic study of the Darwin Expedition, the paper examines in fine-grained detail what Weick (1993...

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Published in:Management (Paris, France : 1998) France : 1998), 2018, Vol.21 (2), p.705-737
Main Authors: Musca, Genevieve, Rouleau, Linda, Mellet, Caroline, Sitri, Frédérique, de Vogüé, Sarah
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