Critical sensemaking

Eeva Aromaa, Albert Mills and Jean Helms Mills

Chapter 76 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 290-292 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Critical sensemaking (CSM) is a method of analysis that stems from a combination of scientific philosophies and methodologies, including postmodernism, interpretism and critical theory. For critical scholars interested in understanding agency in innovation, the CSM method aids in theorising power as a multifaceted phenomenon with both productive and restrictive effects on actors and in exploring how these power dynamics produce marginalisation, empowerment and resistance within organisations. CSM analysis encompasses both structural (such as formative contexts and rules) and post-structural (such as discourses) elements to address issues of power in the processes of organising, managing and leading innovation-related topics and activities within organisations. This entry provides insights into the application of CSM in empirical research on innovation.

Keywords: Critical sensemaking; Context; Discourse; Power; Rules; Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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