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Middle Manager Sensemaking

Middle Manager Sensemaking is a cognitive and interpretive process through which middle managers, situated between organizational strategy and operational execution, actively construct meaning from ambiguous or conflicting information to align goals, mediate stakeholder expectations, and guide adaptive action within complex organizational environments.

62

Publications

8.1K

Citations

126

Authors

90

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

15

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Publications

62

Organizational Change and Managerial Sensemaking: Working Through Paradox

Lotte S. Lüscher, Marianne W. Lewis · Academy of Management Journal · 2008 · 1.3K citations

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ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING AND MIDDLE MANAGER SENSEMAKING.

Julia Balogun, Gerry Johnson · Academy of Management Journal · 2004 · 1.2K citations

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Micro‐Practices of Strategic Sensemaking and Sensegiving: How Middle Managers Interpret and Sell Change Every Day*

Linda Rouleau · Journal of Management Studies · 2005 · 1K citations

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Middle Managers, Strategic Sensemaking, and Discursive Competence

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

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Middle managers and strategy: Microdynamics of inclusion

Frances Westley · Strategic Management Journal · 1990 · 470 citations

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Authors

126

  1. LR
    Linda Rouleau

    HEC Montréal, Canada

    4 publications · 1.8K citations

    4

    h-index

  2. JB
    Julia Balogun

    City, University of London, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 2.1K citations

    4

    h-index

  3. DA
    Donde Ashmos Plowman

    University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States

    2 publications · 247 citations

    2

    h-index

  4. JM
    Juliet MacMahon

    University of Limerick, Ireland

    2 publications · 33 citations

    2

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  5. SM
    Sarah MacCurtain

    University of Limerick, Ireland

    2 publications · 33 citations

    2

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Institutions

90

  1. HEC Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    1.8K citations

  2. Lancaster University

    Lancaster, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    737 citations

  3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    584 citations

  4. City, University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    252 citations

  5. University of Limerick

    Limerick, Ireland

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    99 citations

  6. University of Tennessee at Knoxville

    Knoxville, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    247 citations

  7. University of Strathclyde

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    1.4K citations

  8. Copenhagen Business School

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    106 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Management Studies

    3 publications · 1.7K citations

    3

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  2. Journal of Organizational Change Management

    3 publications · 79 citations

    3

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  3. Strategic Management Journal

    SMJ · 3 publications · 1K citations

    3

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  4. Academy of Management Journal

    AMJ · 3 publications · 2.7K citations

    3

    h-index

  5. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

    JABS · 2 publications · 218 citations

    2

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