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My name is Linda Rouleau.
I'm a professor at the management
department of HEC Montreal,
where I teach
strategic management and
organization theory.
In this talk, I
will be exploring
the middle manager perspective
in strategy making.
A promising subset of the
strategy as practice research.
Before beginning the talk,
I would like to say
that the literature on
middle managers has
existed for many years.
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In this literature, there are
two ways of looking
at middle managers.
In one research stream,
scholars are interested in
the identity problem of
middle managers related to
their in-between position.
They are looking at what
constitutes their work,
how they manage their careers,
and how they see their future
in the changing business world.
In the other research stream,
scholars are studying
the roles that
middle managers play
in the formulation and
implementation of
strategic change.
More than passive
transmitters of
senior managers' instructions
down the organization.
They are viewed in
this literature as
mediators who facilitate
organizational adaptation.
It is the second set
of literature on
middle managers and
strategic change that
will be the focus
of this seminar.
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More specifically, this talk is
organized around the five
following questions.
Why does research on
middle managers in
strategy-as-practice matter?
Who are middle managers?
What do we know about middle
managers' strategy work?
How do we research middle
managers' strategy work?
What are the challenges and
future avenues of research on
middle managers' strategy work?
