Making sense of inquiry sensemaking

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A report of the Allitt Inquiry into attacks on children on Ward 4 at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in the UK is used as an exercise in sensemaking, and sensemaking as a narrative process. How authorial strategies involving issues of normalization, observation and absolution are employed is illustrated.

Sense (Philosophy), Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)

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The Bridge to the 'Real World': Applied Science or a 'Schizophrenic Tour de Force'?

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The concept of applied science fiction (ASF) is defined as the ways in which a scientific system responds to pressure from an external application without surrendering its self-referential logic. Several forms of ASF are examined and discussed within the framework of management studies.

Models, Comparative analysis, Systems theory

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Kurt Lewin and the Planned Approach to Change: A Re-appraisal

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Psychological theorist Kurt Lewin's action research, group dynamics, field theory, and three-step model are examined in light of present-day criticism. The assessment shows that Lewin's work continues to be relevant to current management studies.

Evaluation, Psychological research, Action research, Field theory (Social psychology), Lewin, Kurt (American psychologist)

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