The contributions in this Special Issue focus on relationships between sensemaking (primarily), learning, and dynamic complexity. They address a range of phenomena, including mindfulness, radical learning, formal inquiries after dealing with natural disasters, adult learning, and big data. While not explicitly framed as such, the contributions can be understood in terms of the musical elements they embody, including sequence, rhythm, punctuation, polyphony, and thematic transformation. In this commentary, I suggest how these musical elements are expressed in the articles. On the basis of these musical elements, I present the musical compositions that describe primary contributions of each article.
AlbertS (2013) When: The Art of Perfect Timing. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
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AlbertSBartunekJM (in press) Composing a musical score for academic-practitioner collaborative research. In: LangleyATsoukasH (eds) SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies. London: SAGE.
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AnconaDGChongC (1996) Entrainment: Pace, cycle, and rhythm in organizational behavior. In: CummingsLLStawBM (eds) Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 18. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, pp. 251–284.
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BartunekJMWoodmanRW (2015) Beyond Lewin: Toward a temporal approximation of organization development and change. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior2: 157–182.
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BluedornAC (2002) The Human Organization of Time: Temporal Realities and Experience. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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CunliffeACouplandC (2012) From hero to villain to hero: Making experience sensible through embodied narrative sensemaking. Human Relations65(1): 63–88.
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HuyQN (2001) Time, temporal capability, and planned change. Academy of Management Review26: 601–623.
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MaitlisSChristiansonM (2014) Sensemaking in organizations: Taking stock and moving forward. Academy of Management Annals8: 57–125.
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MoninPNoorderhavenNVaaraE. (2013) Giving sense to and making sense of justice in postmerger integration. Academy of Management Journal56(1): 256–284.
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TushmanMRomanelliE (1985) Organizational revolution: A metamorphosis model of convergence and reorientation. In CummingsLLStawBM (eds) Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 7. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, pp. 171–222.
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WeickKE (2012) Organized sensemaking: A commentary on processes of interpretive work. Human Relations65(1): 141–153.
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WeickKESutcliffeKMObstfeldD (2005) Organizing and the process of sensemaking and organizing. Organization Science16(4): 409–421.
