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Middle Management Strategic Roles: Strategic Role Conflict And Its Antecedents, Hector R. Flores
Middle Management Strategic Roles: Strategic Role Conflict And Its Antecedents, Hector R. Flores
Doctoral Dissertations
The middle-management perspective has produced a great understanding of the connection of middle managers involvement in strategy and organizational outcomes (Floyd & Wooldridge, 1992, 1996; Floyd & Wooldridge, 2000; Wooldridge & Floyd, 1990). Strategic role conflict has been identified in the literature as a hindrance, even an impediment, to effective middle-management involvement in strategy (Floyd & Lane, 2000). Despite a growing body of theoretical work by scholars on the strategy process, there has been limited empirical research of the antecedents of strategic role conflict. Drawing from the literatures of role conflict, middle management perspective, and social exchange theory, this dissertation …
The Microfoundations Of Middle Manager Strategic Influence: Three Essays, David G. Cohen
The Microfoundations Of Middle Manager Strategic Influence: Three Essays, David G. Cohen
Doctoral Dissertations
My dissertation is a set of three independent papers exploring both conceptually and empirically the processes by which middle managers influence organizational strategy. Specifically, I examine the hows and whys of middle management strategic influence. By what mechanisms do middle managers change the course of organizational strategy and why do some middle managers, but not others, change the organization’s strategic direction? I do so from a perspective of methodological reductionism (that is, I look to the actions of the individual for explanations of organizational level phenomena, such as strategic change). In particular, all three papers explore how an individual middle …