Handbook both reviews existing theory and explores new ground concerning key issues surrounding middle managers' influence on …Contents: Part 1: -- The unit of analysis -- 1. The role of middle and top managers in the strategy process / Xavier … Castañer and Howard Yu -- 2. Functions of the mezzanine / Anurag Sharma -- 3. Some middle managers are more influential than …

Contents: Introduction / David Crowther and Linne Marie Lauesen -- Part I: Methodology planning -- 1. Grounded theory …: Quantitative methods -- 7. Game theory as a research tool for sustainability / Shahla Seifi -- 8. Key concerns in longitudinal …. Yekini -- 15. Ethnographic research methods in CSR research : building theory out of people's everyday life with materials …

materialistic general theory of rational action into an idealistic theory of social organization and individual action. Adding new … insightful analytical methods such as complexity theory, graph theory and computational modelling to the original insights of the … and the important social questions. Rethinking Economics as Social Theory moves away from the traditional review of …