PERCEPTIONS OF EUROPEAN MIDDLE MANAGERS OF THEIR ROLE IN STRATEGIC CHANGE

W. Christian Buss and Rosalie Kuyvenhofen

Global Journal of Business Research, 2011, vol. 5, issue 5, 109-119

Abstract: The middle management role in strategy execution remains a critical issue in the success of strategic initiatives. The management literature has viewed middle managers as 1) implementers of topmanagement defined strategic changes, 2) relationship managers in strategic-change programs and 3) key strategic actors in the emergence of the strategic change. The paper summarizes the development of these three views of the strategic implementation role of middle management. The perceptions of experienced European middle managers are used to validate and augment the three formulations. Conclusions are drawn that yield 1) insights into the middle-management roles in strategic changes, 2) a preliminary typology of these middle-management roles and 3) an exploratory test of the sufficiency of this typology in covering the breadth of middle-management role behaviors in strategic change initiatives. Implications for further research on the role set of middle managers in the implementation of strategic-change initiatives are drawn.

Keywords: Strategy implementation; middle-management roles; middle management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L25 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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