Handbook of Middle Management Strategy Process Research

Edited by Steven W. Floyd, Isenberg Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Bill Wooldridge, Professor, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US

Contents:

Introduction
Steven W. Floyd and Bill Wooldridge

Part I: The Unit of Analysis
1. The Role of Middle and Top Managers in the Strategy Process
Xavier Castañer and Howard Yu

2. Functions of the Mezzanine
Anurag Sharma

3. Some Middle Managers are More Influential Than Others: An Approach for Identifying Strategic Influence
Bill Wooldridge and Steven W. Floyd

Part II: Explorations of Existing Theory
4. The Role of Issue Selling in Effective Strategy Making
Susan J. Ashford, Madeline Ong, Gareth D. Keeves

5. Strategy-as-Practice Research on Middle Managers and Sensemaking
Juila Balogun and Linda Rouleau

6. Middle Managers’ Emotion Management in the Strategy Process
Quy Nguyen Huy and Yidi Guo

7. Middle Managers: The Lynchpins in the Corporate Entrepreneurship Process
Donald F. Kuratko

Part III: Theoretical Developments
8. Developing Theory about the Development of Theory
Henry Mintzberg

9. Complex Strategic Integration at Nike: Strategy Process and Strategy-as-Practice Combined
Robert A. Burgelman

10. A Conceptual Framework of Middle Managers’ Strategic Role Flexibility
Ruifang Wang, Patrick T. Gibbons, Ciaran Heavey

11. Mintzberg’s Pattern: Middle Managers in Polyphonic Strategy Process
Saku Mantere

12. Middle Management Engagement in Strategic Planning Routines: A Mindfulness Perspective
Carola Wolf

Part IV: Methodological Alternatives
13. Middle Management and Strategy Process: Toward a Pluralistic Theory of Power
Torsten Schmid

14. Measuring the Middle: The Use of Social Network Analysis in Middle Management Research
David G. Cohen and Sudhir Nair

15. Choreographies We Strategize By: Using Video Methodology in the Study of Embodiment
Philip Gylfe

Part V: Empirical Explorations
16. A Psychological Perspective on Middle Managers’ Strategic Championing Behavior
Nüfer Yasin Ates, Murat Tarakci, Yoojung Ahn, Steven W. Floyd and Bill Wooldridge

17. The Knowledge Brokering Role of Middle Managers: The Case of Hybrid Middle Managers in a Professionalalized Organization
Graeme Currie and Nicola Burgess

18. Middle Managers and Corporate Entrepreneurship: Unpacking Strategic Roles and Assessing Performance Implications
Johanna Mair

19. The Interface of Top and Middle Managers: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Anneloes M. L. Raes and Koen van Vlijmen

Index