The Interpretation of Design-Based Cues

A Processual Approach

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ID23697648
AuthorsMicki Eisenman, Michal Frenkel (0000-0003-3925-4115), Varda Wasserman (0000-0001-9522-8857)
Year2019
Pages118-133
Publication date2019-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueInstitutions and Organizations (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198843818.003.0008
OpenAlexW2969336900
ISBN9780198843818
LanguageEN
References cited15

We advance current understandings about the nature of interpretative processes unique to design-based cues—elements in the organizational environment, such as colors or textures—that affect institutional processes by shaping behaviors and emotions. The implicit assumption in extant work is that because these cues are salient, they are tightly coupled with distinct meanings. We argue, however, that interpretation in the context of these cues is processual rather than linear or finite. We explain this argument by exploring the interpretation of design-based cues given tensions along three planes: tensions between individual and intersubjective levels of interpretations; tensions among the multiple cues that co-exist in organizational workspaces, whose interpretations may reinforce or contradict each other; and tensions emanating from the ways the design-based cues themselves transform over time due to deliberate and natural change. On the basis of these arguments, we reveal the inherent complexity and dynamism of interpreting these cues.

Affect (linguistics) · Argument (complex analysis) · Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology) · Dynamism · Epistemology · Extant taxon · Geography · Interpretation (philosophy) · Natural (archaeology) · Salient · Sensory cue · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Design Education and Practice · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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