# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-e-weick
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:39:02.152Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-e-weick"
name: "Karl E. Weick"
slug: "karl-e-weick"
description: "Karl Emmanuel Weick was an American organizational theorist who introduced the concepts of \"loose coupling\", \"mindfulness\", and \"sensemaking\" into organizational studies. He was the Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan."
tagline: "Organisational psychologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-10-31"
deathDate: "2026-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.52
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.254298666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_E._Weick"
    title: "Karl E. Weick"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_E._Weick"
    title: "Karl E. Weick"
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    title: "کارل ای. ویک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karl E. Weick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "カール・ワイク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_E._Weick"
    title: "Karl E. Weick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Вейк, Карл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_E._Weick"
    title: "Karl E. Weick"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q328887"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump