The middle management perspective on strategy process: Contributions, synthesis, and future research

B Wooldridge, T Schmid… - Journal of management, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
During the past 25 years, a substantial amount of research in strategic management has
focused on the contributions of middle management. Although useful, the research is …

Strategy as practice: research directions and resources

G Johnson - 2007 - books.google.com
Research in strategy has shifted significantly towards strategy as something organizations
have, rather than strategy as something that managers do. The activities of the people who …

Bouncing back together: Toward a theoretical model of work team resilience

AC Stoverink, BL Kirkman, S Mistry… - … of management review, 2020 - journals.aom.org
In today's turbulent business environments, work teams frequently face a variety of adverse
conditions and, as a result, can experience process breakdowns and performance declines …

Strategy processes and practices: Dialogues and intersections

RA Burgelman, SW Floyd, T Laamanen… - Strategic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Research Summary: Building on our review of the strategy process and practice research,
we identify three ways to see the relationships between the two research traditions …

Open strategy: Dimensions, dilemmas, dynamics

J Hautz, D Seidl, R Whittington - Long Range Planning, 2017 - Elsevier
Responding to increasing practitioner and academic interest in Open Strategy, this article
builds on recent theoretical and empirical studies in order to advance research in the …

Rethinking 'top‐down'and 'bottom‐up'roles of top and middle managers in organizational change: Implications for employee support

MLM Heyden, SPL Fourné, BAS Koene… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this study we integrate insights from 'top‐down'and 'bottom‐up'traditions in organizational
change research to understand employees' varying dispositions to support change. We …

A theory of transformative agency in linked social-ecological systems

FR Westley, O Tjornbo, L Schultz, P Olsson, C Folke… - Ecology and …, 2013 - JSTOR
We reviewed the literature on leadership in linked social-ecological systems and combined
it with the literature on institutional entrepreneurship in complex adaptive systems to develop …

Tip** toward sustainability: emerging pathways of transformation

F Westley, P Olsson, C Folke, T Homer-Dixon… - Ambio, 2011 - Springer
This article explores the links between agency, institutions, and innovation in navigating
shifts and large-scale transformations toward global sustainability. Our central question is …

The qualitative research interview

SQ Qu, J Dumay - Qualitative research in accounting & management, 2011 - emerald.com
Purpose–Despite the growing pressure to encourage new ways of thinking about research
methodology, only recently have interview methodologists begun to realize that “we cannot …

Exploring corporate strategy

G Johnson, K Scholes, R Whittington - 2008 - Springer
'SWOT... stands Jor strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats... the idea is to
undertake a more structured analysis so as [0 yield **dings which can contribute to the …