Ian Colville

Biographic Data

ID1315142
NAMEIan Colville
GIVEN NAMESIan
FAMILY NAMEColville
SIGNATURECOLVILLE I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bath
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS53
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX3

  • Making Sense of Sensemaking in Organization Studies

    Open AccessAdalsteinn D Brown, Andrew D Brown et al.ARTICLEOrganization Studies2015

    ‘Sensemaking’ is an extraordinarily influential perspective with a substantial following among management and organization scholars interested in how people appropriate and enact their ‘realities’. Organization Studies has been and remains one of the principal outlets for work that seeks either to draw on or to extend our understanding of sensemaking practices in and around organizations. The contribution of this paper is fourfold. First, we revi…

  • Organizing to counter terrorism

    Open AccessIan Colville, Annie Pye et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2013Cited by: 21References: 51

    Organizations increasingly find themselves contending with circumstances that are suffused with dynamic complexity. So how do they make sense of and contend with this? Using a sensemaking approach, our empirical case analysis of the shooting of Mr Jean Charles de Menezes shows how sensemaking is tested under such conditions. Through elaborating the relationship between the concepts of frames and cues, we find that the introduction of a new organi…

  • Simplexity

    Open AccessIan Colville, Adalsteinn D Brown et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2012Cited by: 19References: 35

    Simplexity is advanced as an umbrella term reflecting sensemaking, organizing and storytelling for our time. People in and out of organizations increasingly find themselves facing novel circumstances that are suffused with dynamic complexity. To make sense through processes of organizing, and to find a plausible answer to the question ‘what is the story?’, requires a fusion of sufficient complexity of thought with simplicity of action, which we c…

  • Human Relations special issue call for papers

    Open AccessIan Colville, Adalsteinn D Brown et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations2009Cited by: 1

  • Managing Tax Regimes

    Open AccessCyril Tomkins, Chris Packman et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration2001

    Most academic research on taxation relates to higher‐level issues of fiscal policy. Much public debate takes place about the calculation and incidence of different taxes, but little academic research addresses the management problems that are specific to national taxation regimes. This paper identifies emerging issues and calls for joint practitioner/academic attention on an international basis to address these issues

  • Organizing and the Search for Excellence

    Open AccessIan Colville, Ian D Colville et al.ARTICLEOrganization1999

    This paper seeks to draw out commonalities between the organizational/practitioners' and academic agenda and to explore the idea that academe may not only reflect the times but also help to create them. In so doing, it examines the extent to which In Search of Excellence, a significant and timely exemplar of the organizational agenda, in effect operationalized The Social Psychology of Organizing. If, it concludes, sensemaking is retrospective, th…

  • Searching for Karl Weick and Reviewing the Future

    Open AccessIan ColvilleARTICLEOrganization1994

  • Developing and Understanding Cultural Change in Hm Customs and Excise

    Open AccessIan Colville, Kevin Dalton et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration1993Cited by: 12References: 2

    Increasingly, what was formerly known as public administration is turning itself into management, while management itself is fast becoming synonymous with the management of change. These two directions meet in government calls to change the culture of the civil service, and are to be found most clearly in the Financial Management Initiative (1982), and its successor, the Next Steps (1988). While each stresses a different aspect, the core policy i…