Dinur, A. R., (2011). Common and uncommon sense in managerial decision making under task uncertainty. Management Decision, 49(5), 694-709. doi: 10.1108/00251741111130797
The premise of the article is an exploration of sense making from both a common and uncommon sense approach . Common sense, by most of the provided examples, was only possible in an area of no prior training or experience . Common sense is considered instinctual. This goes against common practice of hiring managers based on experience.
Once a reasonable definition of common sense is established, the author defines two new concepts, Managerial Common Sense (MCS) and Managerial Uncommon Sense (MUS). Basically, managers who are experienced in business are perfectly capable of MCS. They have seen a lot, and can make decisions from personal experience . When a situation comes up where the manager has no experience, a decision could result in a system failure, which is described as mechanistic by the author. Some situations call for depending on the expertise of others. This is considered uncommon, and is tied to the MUS concept.