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An exploration of prospective sensemaking in the eye of poverty alleviation: Insights from an international non-governmental organisation
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Pradilla, Camilo Arciniegas (2019) An exploration of prospective sensemaking in the eye of poverty alleviation: Insights from an international non-governmental organisation. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis consists of three interconnected papers. Together, they offer an overarching view of future-oriented or prospective sensemaking in the context of poverty alleviation. The first paper is mainly empirically driven. It provides an analysis of poverty. In doing this analysis, findings challenge current notions of meaning making and action in organisational settings. The second paper examines the future-oriented processes of different organisational actors and their implications in strategy making. Theoretically, this paper explores problems around multiple expectations in strategy making processes. The third paper builds on the previous two providing an answer for organising in the context of wicked problems. Acknowledging the open-endedness nature of the future is crucial to move from transpired futures to futures in the making and discovery. A qualitative methodology was adopted in the three papers. The first two papers draw on narrative analyses while the third paper uses Gioia methodology. The overall contribution of the thesis is to offer a new vision of the future in the sensemaking literature. Here, the future is a fluid and multi-authored construction in which contextual constructions will enable actors to construct multiple pathways. As a practical implication, this thesis underlines the need to embrace the construction of complex metaphorical images that allow actors purpose convergence and action divergence.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Poverty, Poverty -- Government policy, Non-governmental organizations | ||||
Official Date: | June 2019 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Business School | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Reinecke, Juliane ; Bento da Silva, Jose, | ||||
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Extent: | ix, 240 leaves : illustrations, map | ||||
Language: | eng |
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