Approach to the Enactment Process in K.E.Weick's Organizing Concept

K. E. Weick advocated understanding the organization phenomenon from the viewpoint of organizing in The Social Psychology of Organizing. He showed the concept of enactment in organizing theory. Enactment is the only process where organizational members directly engage with an external environment and is the action that produces the raw materials that can then be made sensible. Weick described that the enactment perspective implies that people in organizations should be more self-conscious about and spend more time reflecting on the actual things they do. Thus, enactment is an important element of the organizing process. The author considers that a discussion of the enactment concept is necessary in the case of the observation and analysis of the organization phenomenon. The aim of this study is to examine the enactment concept from the action and interaction perspectives. For this purpose, Parsons' notion of the double contingency, Silverman's action frame of reference, Blumer's joint act, Schutz's intersubjectivity, and Wiley's analytical frame of the social system were investigated. In this way, the relationship between enactment and interaction in the organizing process was clarified