Middle Managers' Struggle Over Their Subject Position in Open Strategy Processes

In this paper we examine middle managers’ struggle over their subject position as strategists in the context of participative strategy processes. Based on a longitudinal case study of a company undertaking an Open Strategy process, we show how the wider inclusion of front‐line employees in developin...

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Vydané v:Journal of management studies Ročník 60; číslo 7; s. 1884 - 1923
Hlavní autori: Splitter, Violetta, Jarzabkowski, Paula, Seidl, David
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2023
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Case studies
Employee involvement
Employees
Managers
Middle management
Middle managers
Recursion
Sentence structure
Strategies
Worker participation
ISSN:0022-2380, 1467-6486
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Shrnutí:In this paper we examine middle managers’ struggle over their subject position as strategists in the context of participative strategy processes. Based on a longitudinal case study of a company undertaking an Open Strategy process, we show how the wider inclusion of front‐line employees in developing new strategy undermines the traditional subject position of middle managers. Based on these findings, we develop a process model depicting the recursive dynamics of middle managers’ struggles to maintain their subject positions in the face of employee participation. With these findings we contribute to the literature on middle managers by advancing our understanding of the implications of employee participation for middle managers’ subject position as strategists and their different ways of reclaiming their subject position. We also contribute to the literature on Open Strategy by revealing the implications for traditional strategy actors as well as by explaining the processual dynamics of participation over time.
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ISSN:0022-2380
1467-6486
DOI:10.1111/joms.12776