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According to Wikipedia, Karl Edward Weick is an American organizational theorist who introduced the concepts of "loose coupling", "mindfulness", and "sensemaking" into organizational studies. He is the Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

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FROM SENSEMAKING IN ORGANIZATIONS (2021) (13959)
The social psychology of organizing (1969) (12803)
Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems (1984) (4986)
Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems (1976) (4983)
Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks. (1993) (4153)
Special Issue: Frontiers of Organization Science, Part 1 of 2: Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking (2005) (3159)
Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking (2005) (3038)
The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster (1993) (2753)
Organizational change and development. (1999) (2691)
Making Sense of the Organization (2000) (2391)
Loosely Coupled Systems: A Reconceptualization (1990) (2243)
Organizing for high reliability: Processes of collective mindfulness. (1999) (2049)
Managing the unexpected: Assuring high performance in an age of complexity. (2001) (1992)
Swift trust and temporary groups. (1996) (1897)
Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination (1989) (1841)
Managing the unexpected: resilient performance in an age of uncertainty, second edition (2007) (1629)
ENACTED SENSEMAKING IN CRISIS SITUATIONS[1] (1988) (1512)
Organizational Culture as a Source of High Reliability (1987) (1326)
What Theory Is Not, Theorizing Is (1995) (1188)
Managerial behavior, performance, and effectiveness (1971) (1059)
Small wins: Redefining the scale of social problems. (1984) (929)
The Social Psychology of Organizing, 2d ed. (1980) (861)
The Vulnerable System: An Analysis of the Tenerife Air Disaster (1990) (823)
Mindfulness and the Quality of Organizational Attention (2006) (814)
Introductory Essay : Improvisation As a Mindset for Organizational Analysis (1998) (782)
Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis (1998) (746)
Behavior in Organizations: Understanding and Managing the Human Side of Work (1984) (735)
Organizational Learning: Affirming an Oxymoron (1999) (623)
Technology as equivoque: sensemaking in new technologies (1990) (587)
Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies. (1996) (569)
The Nontraditional Quality of Organizational Learning (1991) (536)
The Generative Properties Of Richness (2007) (492)
Mail and telephone surveys: The total design method. (1978) (413)
Organizational redesign as improvisation (1993) (366)
Theory Construction as Disciplined Reflexivity: Tradeoffs in the 90s (1999) (364)
Administering Education in Loosely Coupled Schools. (1982) (351)
Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes. 2nd ed. (1984) (350)
Managing the Unexpected: Sustained Performance in a Complex World (2015) (328)
Learning Through Rare Events: Significant Interruptions at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum (2009) (308)
Organizing for Mindfulness (2006) (298)
Argument and Narration in Organizational Communication (1986) (291)
New Directions for Organization Theory: Problems and Prospects (1999) (279)
Reflections on Enacted Sensemaking in the Bhopal Disaster (2010) (278)
Hospitals as Cultures of Entrapment: A Re-Analysis of the Bristol Royal Infirmary (2003) (273)
Organized sensemaking: A commentary on processes of interpretive work (2012) (245)
Organization design: Organizations as self-designing systems (1977) (238)
Gapping the Relevance Bridge: Fashions Meet Fundamentals in Management Research (2001) (221)
Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2: The Impermanent Organization (2009) (210)
Sport and Organizational Studies (2005) (200)
Unobtrusive Measures in Organizational Theory: A Reminder. (1979) (196)
An Assessment Of Laboratory Experiments In Accounting (1982) (182)
Faith, Evidence, and Action: Better Guesses in an Unknowable World (2006) (178)
Middle range theories of social systems (1974) (154)
Rumor and gossip: The social psychology of hearsay. (1977) (148)
4 – The Effectiveness of Interpretation Systems (1983) (145)
Doing No Harm : Enabling , Enacting , and Elaborating a Culture of Safety in Health Care by (2010) (144)
Managing the Unexpected: Complexity as Distributed Sensemaking (2005) (141)
The concept of equity in the perception of pay. (1966) (137)
Introduction to Organizational Behavior. (1982) (124)
Essai: Real-Time Reflexivity: Prods to Reflection (2002) (123)
That's Moving Theories that Matter (1999) (116)
Emergent Change as a Universal in Organizations (2012) (113)
Puzzles in Organizational Learning: An Exercise in Disciplined Imagination (2002) (111)
Drop your Tools: On Reconfiguring Management Education (2007) (108)
REDUCTION OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THROUGH TASK ENHANCEMENT AND EFFORT EXPENDITURE. (1964) (107)
Conclusion: Theory Construction as Disciplined Reflexivity: Tradeoffs in the 90s (1999) (106)
Group Techniques for Idea Building. (1988) (101)
The Vancouver Academy of Management Jass Symposium : Jazz As a Metaphor for Organizing In the 21st Century (1998) (99)
Sensemaking as an Organizational Dimension of Global Change (1999) (98)
Handbook of career theory: Career improvisation in self-designing organizations (1989) (95)
Management accounting and action (1987) (92)
People in Organizations: An Introduction to Organizational Behavior (3rd ed.). (1988) (92)
Theory and Practice in the Real World (2005) (87)
Organizing for Transient Reliability: The Production of Dynamic Non-Events (2011) (84)
Fate of Arbitrary Traditions in a Laboratory Microculture. (1971) (81)
Preferences among forms of equity (1968) (79)
Information Overload Revisited (2008) (76)
Variations on a Theme : Practice Improvisation (1998) (76)
Normal Accident Theory As Frame, Link, and Provocation (2004) (76)
The Affective Foundations of High-Reliability Organizing (2014) (75)
Utilization-focused evaluation. (1979) (75)
Organizing and the Search for Excellence: Making Sense of the Times in Theory and Practice (1999) (75)
The Organization Science Jazz Festival : Improvisationas a Metaphor for Organizing (1998) (74)
Amendments to Organizational Theorizing (1974) (74)
Communication yearbook I. (1978) (72)
Learning in Organizations (2001) (71)
Prepare your organization to fight fires (1996) (70)
Doing No Harm: Enabling, Enacting, and Elaborating a Culture of Safety in Health Care (2010) (69)
Organized Improvisation: 20 Years of Organizing. (1989) (69)
Foresights of Failure: An Appreciation of Barry Turner (1998) (66)
Organizing and Failures of Imagination (2005) (66)
Agenda Setting in Organizational Behavior (1992) (65)
The planning of change. 3rd ed. (1977) (63)
The role of imagination in the organizing of knowledge (2006) (59)
Organizing on a global scale: A research and teaching agenda (1990) (56)
Contradictions in a Community of Scholars: The Cohesion-Accuracy Tradeoff (2017) (56)
Ambiguity as Grasp: The Reworking of Sense (2015) (55)
Understanding the Unemployed: The Psychological Effects of Unemployment. (1982) (55)
The aesthetic of imperfection in orchestras and organizations (2003) (54)
Hospitals as Cultures of Entrapment (2003) (53)
Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure of Organizing (2012) (50)
The equity context (1976) (50)
Reflections: Change Agents As Change Poets – On Reconnecting Flux and Hunches (2011) (49)
Work and Human Behavior (3rd ed.). (1986) (49)
Critics' Corner : Critical Resistance to the Jazz Metaphor (1998) (49)
Sense and reliability. A conversation with celebrated psychologist Karl E. Weick. Interview by Diane L. Coutu. (2003) (48)
Mental models of high reliability systems (1989) (46)
Matthew W. Seeger and Timothy L. Sellnow: Narratives of Crisis: Telling Stories of Ruin and Renewal (2017) (46)
A Diagnostic Approach to Organizational Behavior. (1985) (46)
The Life Cycle of Groups: Group Developmental Stage Theory (1981) (41)
How Professional Organizations Work: Implications for School Organization & Management (2002) (40)
60th Anniversary Essay (2016) (39)
Dissonance and task enhancement: A problem for compensation theory?☆ (1967) (38)
A Bias for Conversation: Acting Discursively in Organizations (2004) (38)
The Effect of Composer Credibility on Orchestra Performance (1973) (37)
Karl E. WEICK (1979), The Social Psychology of Organizing, Second Edition. (2015) (37)
Fighting Fires in Educational Administration (1996) (36)
Organizational Design and the Gehry Experience (2003) (34)
CHAPTER 3 – The Twigging of Overload1 (1970) (32)
Creativity and the Aesthetics of Imperfection (1995) (32)
Methods of organizational research (1968) (31)
Diagnosing Organizations: Methods, Models, and Processes. (1988) (31)
Evaluating information: A guide for users of social science research. (1979) (30)
Laboratory Experimentation with Organizations: A Reappraisal (1977) (29)
An Appreciation of Social Context: One Legacy of Gerald Salancik (1996) (28)
Leadership When Events Don't Play by the Rules (2002) (24)
Academic culture and faculty development. (1980) (24)
The Poetics of Process: Theorizing the Ineffable in Organization Studies (2010) (22)
Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation (2005) (21)
Laboratory Organizations and Unnoticed Causes (1969) (21)
Task Acceptance Dilemmas: A Site for Research on Cognition (1966) (21)
Sensemaking, Organizing, and Surpassing: A Handoff (2020) (19)
Thomas B. Lawrence and Nelson Phillips: Constructing Organizational Life: How Social-Symbolic Work Shapes Selves, Organizations, and Institutions (2020) (18)
Scientists in organizations: Productive climates for research and development. Rev. ed. (1977) (18)
The management of compensation. (1976) (17)
The role of financial compensation in managerial motivation (1967) (17)
Perspectives on behavior in organizations. (1978) (16)
Triads: A laboratory analogue. (1966) (16)
Social psychology in an era of social change. (1969) (15)
Mindful organising and resilient health care (2013) (15)
Socio-technical design: Strategies in multidisciplinary research. (1976) (15)
Discrepant Membership as an Occasion for Effective Cooperation (1969) (14)
Fixing with the voice: A research agenda for applied communication (1991) (14)
Perspective Construction in Organizational Behavior (2017) (14)
Speaking to Practice (1996) (14)
Editing Innovation into: Administrative Science Quarterly (1995) (13)
Commentary on Czarniawska (2003) (13)
Influencing attitudes and changing behavior: An introduction to method, theory, and applications of social control and personal power 2nd ed. (1978) (13)
D. Christopher Kayes: Organizational Resilience: How Learning Sustains Organizations in Crisis, Disaster, and Breakdowns (2016) (12)
Misconceptions about managerial productivity (1983) (12)
Social Behavior in Organizational Studies (1990) (12)
The role of renewal in organizational learning (2014) (12)
Man and the organization. (1976) (12)
Managing The Future: Foresight In The Knowledge Economy (2005) (12)
Blind Spots in Organizational Theorizing (1980) (12)
Affirmation as Inquiry (1982) (12)
Trust: A Bigger Picture (2008) (11)
When Prophecy Pales: The Fate of Dissonance Theory (1965) (11)
Can Information Loss Be Reversed (1989) (11)
Drop your Tools (2001) (10)
Shouldering Risks: The Culture of Control in the Nuclear Power IndustryShouldering Risks: The Culture of Control in the Nuclear Power Industry, by PerinConstance. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. (2006) (10)
Objectives of physical education expressed as needs by university students. (1975) (10)
Advances in Organizational Psychology: An International Review. (1988) (10)
Fatigue of the Spirit in Organizational Theory and Organization Development: Reconnaissance Man as Remedy (1990) (9)
Readings in evaluation research. 2nd ed. (1978) (9)
Realignment of discrepant reinforcement value. (1968) (9)
Dissonance and the revision of choice criteria. (1966) (8)
Toward a metric of science: The advent of science indicators. (1979) (8)
Perspectives on attitude assessment: Surveys and their alternatives. (1978) (8)
Tools for thought: How to understand and apply the latest scientific techniques of problem solving. (1978) (8)
Leading with Values: The role of values in high-risk organizations (2006) (7)
Evolving Reactions: 60 Years with March and Simon's ‘Organizations’ (2019) (7)
The Pragmatics of “Really Mattering” on Policy Issues: William Ouchi as Exemplar (2005) (7)
An introduction to models in social sciences. (1975) (7)
Comment on ‘softly constrained imagination’ (2010) (7)
Organiza-tions as Loosely Coupled Systems (2008) (7)
The Manager and the Working Group. (1986) (6)
THE NEGLECTED CONTEXT OF RISK ASSESSMENT: A MINDSET FOR METHOD CHOICE (2000) (6)
Persuasion: A means of social influence 2nd ed. (1976) (5)
Making it in graduate school. (1978) (5)
Impermanent Systems and Medical Errors: Variety Mitigates Adversity (2012) (4)
Interfaces Between Management Accounting and Organizational Behavior (1981) (4)
Macro Organizational Behavior: The Goodyear Series in Administration and Business Management (1981) (4)
Mismanaging the Unexpected (2015) (4)
Essentials of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Rev. ed. (1983) (4)
What Is the Academy Reading? One Answer (2013) (4)
Resources in environment and behavior. (1979) (4)
Middle Range Themes in Organizational Theorizing (1980) (3)
The impermanent organization (2009) (3)
Academic Journals in the Classroom (1987) (3)
Styles of Scholarship: “Tonight Let’s Do Thompson” (1989) (3)
Chapter 10 – Cosmos vs. Chaos: Sense and Nonsense in Electronic Contexts (1997) (3)
Naturalistic Viewpoints in Psychological Research. Edwin P. Willems and Harold L. Raush, Eds. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1969. x + 294 pp., illus. $7.50 (1969) (3)
Chapter 13 – Cosmos vs. Chaos: Sense and Nonsense in Electronic Contexts (1997) (2)
Power in Organizations.Jeffrey Pfeffer (1982) (2)
Matthew Desmond: On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters (2008) (2)
Social psychology. 2nd ed. (1977) (2)
Organized Impermanence: An Overview (2012) (2)
Commentary on ‘Mindfulness in Action’ (2017) (2)
PRIMER FOR PRODUCTIVITY. (1965) (2)
Leadership: Abstracts and bibliography 1904 to 1974. (1978) (2)
Ecological Psychology. Concepts and Methods for Studying the Environment of Human Behavior. Roger G. Barker. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1968. x + 246 pp., illus. $7.50 (1969) (2)
MAKING THE MOST OF MESS: RELIABILITY AND POLICY IN TODAY'S MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES - by Emery Roe (2013) (2)
Redescriptions of High-Risk Organisational Life (2019) (2)
Research in Organizational Change and Development: An Annual Series Featuring Advances in Theory, Methodology and Research. Vol. 1. (1989) (1)
Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst. By Karen A. Cerulo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. ix+333. $29.00 (paper). (2008) (1)
Sensemaking and Whistleblowing (2020) (1)
Mundane Poetics: Searching for Wisdom in Organizational Theory (2012) (1)
Managing the unexpected in prescribed fire and fire use operations a workshop on the high reliability organization (2004) (1)
Interrelations among Measures of Affiliation and Approval Motivation under Stress and Nonstress Conditions (1966) (1)
Principle 2: Reluctance to Simplify (2015) (1)
Earl Boebert and James M. Blossom: Deepwater Horizon: A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster (2017) (1)
Status and conformity. (1978) (1)
Mark de Rond: Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital (2018) (1)
The Fine Tuning of Graduate Education (1987) (1)
David A. Hofmann and Michael Frese, eds.: Errors in Organizations (2012) (1)
Organization as a Form of Life. (2001) (1)
Beyond Words. The Story of Sensitivity Training and the Encounter Movement. Kurt W. Back. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1972 (distributor, Basic Books, New York). xii, 266 pp. $7.95 (1972) (1)
Principle 5: Deference to Expertise (2015) (1)
Principle 1: Preoccupation with Failure (2015) (1)
Meanings , Measures , Maps , and Models : Understanding the Mechanisms of Continuous Change (2000) (1)
Principle 4: Commitment to Resilience (2015) (0)
Meaning and Misunderstanding. (1969) (0)
Organizational Strategy and Change: Views on Formulating and Implementing Strategic Decisions. (1987) (0)
The Infrastructure of Mindful Organizing (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Psychology in use: An introduction to applied psychology. (1979) (0)
Psychology and the built environment. (1975) (0)
Martha S. Feldman, Brian T. Pentland, Luciana D’Adderio, Katharina Dittrich, Claus Rerup, and David Seidl, eds. Cambridge Handbook of Routine Dynamics (2022) (0)
The Nature of Organized Sensemaking : Viewed (2005) (0)
Future PerfectFuture Perfect. By DavisStanley M.. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987. 243 pages. $16.95. (1988) (0)
Futuristics with flair. (1978) (0)
10. TOWARD STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY :A NTIDOTE TO MANAGERIALISM IN GOVERNANCE ∗ (2006) (0)
3 Rethinking Organizational Design (2021) (0)
6 Designing for Thrownness (2021) (0)
The psychology of leisure. (1976) (0)
The Living Organization: Systems of Behavior. (1990) (0)
Reward Concepts: Polishing Them May Distort Them (1978) (0)
Paper bullets: Great propaganda posters, axis and allied countries WWII (with an essay by Daniel Lerner). (1978) (0)
Persuasion: Understanding, practice, and analysis. (1976) (0)
Beyond grief: Studies in crisis intervention. (1979) (0)
Review of Psychological man. (1977) (0)
Strategy-as-Practice: Methodological Challenges (2008) (0)
Reply to Freedman. (1982) (0)
The analysis of social skill. (1980) (0)
Pre-freeze psychology. (1972) (0)
Breaking through to each other: Creative persuasion on the job and in the home. (1976) (0)
The reduction of cognitive dissonance through task effort, accomplishment, and evaluation / (1962) (0)
From Good Description to Wavering Explanation. (1967) (0)
Executive as Analyst. (1982) (0)
8 Models and Theories: Purposes and Reach (2005) (0)
Organizational Culture and Reliability (2015) (0)
Organizing After Modernism : A Certain Equivocality (2006) (0)
T-Groups for Tea. (1965) (0)
One-Way Transfers and Organizational Cohesion (1989) (0)
The small group. (1979) (0)
Collective Mindfulness and Processes of (2019) (0)
Progress in cybernetics and systems research, Vol. 2. (1976) (0)
Communication in organizations: Selected readings. (1977) (0)
Principle 3: Sensitivity to Operations (2015) (0)
Review Symposium on Field Methods (1987) (0)
10 Theorizing (2005) (0)
My Own Book Review (2015) (0)
Donald Palmer: Normal Organizational Wrongdoing: A Critical Analysis of Theories of Misconduct in and by Organizations (2013) (0)
Work and Health. (1982) (0)
Hopeful organizing in the crucible of the interregnum (2019) (0)
Arrested Sensemaking: Typified Suppositions Sink the El Faro (2022) (0)
Foot-and-Mouth 2001 : The Politics of Crisis Management 16 (2018) (0)
Sustaining Sustained Performance (2015) (0)
Solutions or Analyses (1964) (0)
The daily power game. (1978) (0)
Rangaraj Ramanujam and Karlene H. Roberts (eds.): Organizing for Reliability: A Guide for Research and Practice (2018) (0)

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