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Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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Year 2008 
Volume 7 
Issue 1

Making Sense out of Bad Faith: Sartre, Weick and Existential Sensemaking in Organizational Analysis

Anthony Yue
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Albert Mills
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

2008 7 (1) Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

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Abstract

Through a nuanced braiding of Weick’s (1995) sensemaking epistemology and Sartre’s (1957) phenomenological ontology, we propose an approach to organizational analysis which we label existential sensemaking. We first explore the potential to fuse Weick’s sensemaking and Sartre’s ontology and then examine the case of a Peruvian mountaineering expedition to explore the potential of the existential sensemaking heuristic in understanding the importance of individual decision making in the process of identity work. We conclude that this perspective has profound implications for understanding ethical behaviour in organizing processes as well as within identity construction.

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Yue, Anthony R. & Mills, Albert J. (2008). Making Sense out of Bad Faith: Sartre, Weick and Existential Sensemaking in Organizational Analysis. (2008). Making Sense out of Bad Faith: Sartre, Weick and Existential Sensemaking in Organizational Analysis. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, 7(1), 67-81. (Original work published 2008)

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Yue, Anthony R. and Mills, Albert J.. “Making Sense Out Of Bad Faith: Sartre, Weick And Existential Sensemaking In Organizational Analysis”. 2008. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, vol. 7, no. 1, 2008, pp. 67-81.

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Yue, Anthony R. and Mills, Albert J.. “Making Sense Out Of Bad Faith: Sartre, Weick And Existential Sensemaking In Organizational Analysis”. Tamara: Journal For Critical Organization Inquiry, Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 7, no. 1 (2008): 67-81.

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