Forgotten interactions: Invoking top managers in middle managerial strategizing

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  • Elena Tavella
  • Jane Kirsten Le
This paper adopts a practice-based discursive approach to examine the direct and indirect influence of the TMT on middle managerial strategizing. Adopting a longitudinal, inductive case study, this paper explores (1) how TMT members are invoked in middle managerial strategizing, (2) how different TMT constellations are discursively constructed; and (3) how these constructions influence strategizing dynamics. Through a micro-level analysis of 12 months of middle managerial strategy meetings (N=26) at an elite Scandinavian organization, we identify that TMT constellations are constructed in a fluid, flexible and moment-by-moment way, shifting over time, as middle managers invoke TMT members in an either one-off or serial, enrolling fashion. These invocations shape strategizing by influencing how strategic projects are discussed, planned, and enacted, within and across meetings.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAcademy of Management Proceedings
Volume2018
Issue number1
ISSN2151-6561
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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