How Middle Managers Contribute to Strategy Formation Process: Connection of Strategy Processes and Strategy Practices

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa Lavarda, Rosalia Aldraci
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Canet-Giner, María Teresa, Peris-Bonet, Fernando Juan
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração de Empresas
• Texto Completo: https://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/rae/article/view/31106
• topic: Middle management; strategy formation process; strategy-as-practice; case study; strategizing; Middle manager; proceso integrador de formación de la estrategia; estrategia como práctica; estudio de caso; strategizing; Middle manager; processo-integrador-de-formação-da-estratégia; estratégia-como-prática; estudo de caso; strategizing

The role of middle management is essential when managing integrative and emergent strategy formation processes. We stand out the importance of its role connecting micro and macro organizational level offering a very important contribution when examining the strategy-as-practice perspective and integrative strategy formation process. The main goal of this research is to analyse the relationship between the integrative strategy formation process and the roles of middle management under the strategy-as-practice perspective. To check it out we adopted a qualitative methodology droving a case analysis in a Spanish University. Data was collected by means of personal interviews with members of different levels of the Institution, documents analysis and direct observation. In advance of some results we find out that the University develops an integrative strategy formation process and confers to middle management an important role extended all over the organization.