Middle Manager Roles

Middle Manager Roles is a theoretical construct within organizational leadership theory that delineates the distinct set of responsibilities, decision-making functions, and mediating activities performed by managers positioned between senior executives and frontline employees to facilitate strategic implementation and operational coordination.

332

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22.6K

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602

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347

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2017–2026

Parents

Middle Management Leadership

Publications

332

The strategy process, middle management involvement, and organizational performance

Bill Wooldridge, Steven W. Floyd · Strategic Management Journal · 1990 · 888 citations

Management, Strategic Management, Strategy +9

Middle management involvement in strategy and its association with strategic type: A research note

Steven W. Floyd, Bill Wooldridge · Strategic Management Journal · 1992 · 728 citations

Business, Strategic Management, Strategy +10

The Middle Management Perspective on Strategy Process: Contributions, Synthesis, and Future Research

Bill Wooldridge, Torsten Schmid, Steven W. Floyd · Journal of Management · 2008 · 692 citations

Management, Strategic Management, Strategy +11

Middle Managers, Strategic Sensemaking, and Discursive Competence

Linda Rouleau, Julia Balogun · Journal of Management Studies · 2010 · 615 citations · Full text

Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management +15

Reading the wind: how middle managers assess the context for selling issues to top managers

Jane E. Dutton, Susan J. Ashford, REGINA M. O’ NEILL et al. · Strategic Management Journal · 1997 · 606 citations · Full text

Management, Change Management, Strategic Management +16

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Authors

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Graeme Currie
University of Warwick, United Kingdom
10 publications · 986 citations
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Bill Wooldridge
University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
6 publications · 3K citations
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Ann Briggs
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
6 publications · 172 citations
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Sue Dopson
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
6 publications · 567 citations
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Steven W. Floyd
University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
6 publications · 3K citations
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347

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Journal of Management Studies
14 publications · 2.5K citations
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Human Relations
8 publications · 896 citations
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Educational Management Administration & Leadership
EMAL · 6 publications · 264 citations
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Journal of Nursing Management
6 publications · 323 citations
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British Journal of Management
6 publications · 669 citations
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