Middle managers

Carola Wolf

Chapter 4.30 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 473-476 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry offers an overview of how research on middle managers (MMs) has been approached from a strategy-as-practice perspective. MMs have been identified as one of the core subjects of study from the very inception of SAP with a thriving stream of research evolving and continuing to receive attention. MMs serve as crucial mediators between different stakeholders at operational and strategic organizational levels. Research on the strategic role of middle managers provides an important balance to the predominant agenda of top management and upper echelon focused strategy research. Much of contemporary research on MMs, including that of SAP scholars, is thereby grounded within the pioneering framework of strategic roles by Floyd & Wooldridge (1997), highlihting upwards and downwards strategic influences of MMs.

Keywords: Middle Managers (MMs); Strategy as practice; Research; Core subjects; Hierarchy; General line managers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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