Sensemaking is about the enlargement of small cues. It is a search for contexts within which small details fit together and make sense. It is people … - Karl E. Weick

The environment is located in the mind of the actor and is imposed by him on experience in order to make that experience more meaningful. It is seldom dawns on organizational theorists to look for environments inside of heads rather than outside of them.

In a loosely coupled system there is more room available for self-determination by the actors. If it is argued that a sense of efficacy is crucial for human beings. ihen a sense of efficacy might be greater in a loosely coupled system with autonomous units than it would be in a tightly coupled system where discretion is limited.

An ordered set of assertions about a generic behavior or structure assumed to hold throughout a significantly broad range of specific instances.