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Surprise and Sense Making: What Newcomers Experience in Entering Unfamiliar Organizational Settings
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Growing disillusionment among new members of organizations has been traced to inadequacies in approaches to organizational entry. Current directions of research on organizational entry and their limitations are described, and a new perspective is proposed. The new perspective identifies key features of newcomers' entry experiences, including surprise, contrast, and change, and describes the sense-making processes by which individuals cope with their entry experiences. Implications for research and practice on organizational entry are drawn.
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- Authors
- Louis, M. R.
- Venue
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1980-06
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 226
- ISSN
- 0001-8392 (ISSN-L)
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- W1972775623
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- FWCI
- 23.78
- Type
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- Language
- en
- Open access
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