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Celebrating Organization Theory: The After‐Party
(Harvard University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-03)
Organization and management theory as a field faces criticisms from several scholars that it has an unhealthy obsession with ‘theory’, while at the same time seeing very little cumulative theoretical progress. Some have ...
Reading the wind: how middle managers assess the context for selling issues to top managers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1997-05)
Issue selling is an important mechanism for creating change initiatives in organizations. This paper presents two studies that examine what middle managers think about as they decide whether or not to sell strategic issues ...
Empowering Middle Managers to be Transformational Leaders
(Sage Publications, 1996)
The article describes a field study of a large-scale management development program designed to stimulate middle managerial change. The development of a change typology suggests that middle managers are capable of making ...