Sensible Environments

Action, or enactment, is a precondition for sensemaking (Weick, 1995, p. 30). "[I]n organizational life, people often produce part of the environment they face (Pondy & Mitroff, 1979, p. 17)" (Weick, 1995, p. 30).  "[T]here is not some kind of monolithic, singular, fixed environment that exists detached from and external to these people [italics in original]" (Weick, 1995, p. 31). "Instead, in each case the people are very much a part of their own environments" (Weick, 1995, p. 31).  "They act, and in doing so create the materials that become the constraints and opportunities they face" (Weick, 1995, p. 31).