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Making Sense of Inquiry Sensemaking
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This paper presents a discourse analysis of a report of a tribunal of inquiry in order to further our understanding of inquiry team sensemaking. The subject of the paper is the report of the Allitt Inquiry into attacks on children on Ward 4 at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in the UK. Premised on an understanding of the report as an exercise in sensemaking, and sensemaking as a narrative process, the paper illustrates how authorial strategies centred on issues of normalization, observation and absolution are employed to create a rhetorical and verisimilitudinous artefact. This, it is argued, is accomplished as part of a more general strategy of depoliticizing the disaster event, legitimating social institutions (especially those connected with the medical profession), ameliorating anxieties by elaborating fantasies of omnipotence and control, and thenceforth acting as a sensitizing narrative archetype.
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Fisher, W. R. (1984) · Communication Monographs · doi:10.1080/03637758409390180 · Cited by 1,807 · cited 2×
“Perhaps the most useful way of understanding sensemaking is as a narrative process (Bruner, 1990; Fisher, 1984; MacIntyre, 1981; Weick, 1995).”
BackgroundThe Organizational and Interorganizational Development of Disasters
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“In a world in which public inquiry ceremonies (Gephart, 1978; Trice & Beyer, 1984) are a common and important feature of the cultural adjustment stage of critical events (Turner, 1976, 1978), this is a significant but under-researched and undertheorized question.”
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Organizing and the process of sensemaking
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- Authors
- Brown, A. D.
- Venue
- Journal of Management Studies
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2000-01
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 0022-2380 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-6486
- OpenAlex
- W1977643801
- Cited by
- 322
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 4.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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