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EXPLORING MIDDLE MANAGERS’ STRATEGIC SENSEMAKING ROLE IN PRACTICE

Rouleau, Linda; Balogun, Julia - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2007

This paper seeks to deepen the research on middle managers’ strategic sensemaking roles. Until now, little research has explored how middle managers use their practical knowledge to realize their sensemaking role during strategic change in their daily activities. Here, through vignettes drawn...

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The future of business school faculty

Ivory, Chris (contributor) - 2007

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Learning-in-Practise:The Social Complexity of Learning in Working Life

Antonacopoulou, Elena - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2006

If learning is an integral part of living; if working life demands learning as a condition of survival; if learning is an essential human condition, why is it that we have such difficulty engaging with the phenomenon? This paper engages with this question and explores the complex...

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A RHETORIC-IN-CONTEXT APPROACH TO BUILDING COMMITMENT TO MULTIPLE STRATEGIC GOALSPaula

Jarzabkowski, Paula; illince, John A. A. - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2006

There are still few explanations of the micro detail through which top managers influence employee commitment to multiple strategic goals. This paper argues that through their language, top managers can construct a context for commitment to multiple strategic goals. We therefore propose a...

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When Organisations Change

Balogun, Julia - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2008

Organisational change is a fact of business life. With globalisation, increasedcompetition, and improved technology, organisations are moving towards flatterorganisational models.Managing the type of fundamental changes involved in moving from a hierarchical toa flatter organisational structure,...

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Incentives and managerial experience in multi-task teams: Evidence from within an firm

Griffith, Rachel; Neely, Andrew - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2008

This paper exploits a quasi-experimental setting to estimate the impact that a multi-dimensional group incentive scheme had on branch performance in a large distribution firm. The scheme, which is based on the Balanced Scorecard, was implemented in all branches in one division, but not in another...

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Evidence in Management and Organizational Science: Assembling the Fields Full Weight of Scientific Knowledge Through Syntheses

Rousseau, Denise M.; Manning, Joshua; Denyer, David - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2008

This chapter advocates the good scientific practice of systematic research syntheses in Management and Organizational …

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Sustainability of Business Service Outsourcing: the Case of Human Resource Outsourcing

Sako, Mari; Tierney, Abigail - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

This paper discusses the theory and evidence behind the logic of business process outsourcing, with a specific focus on human resource outsourcing (HRO). Market analysts project rapid growth in the global market for HRO, from around $30 billion in 2005 to just over $40 billion in 2008. The paper...

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Designing the Boundaries of the Firm:From “Make, Buy or Ally” to the Dynamic Benefits of Vertical Architecture

Jacobides, Michael G.; Billinger, Stephan - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

The concept of “vertical architecture” defines the scope of a firm and the extent to which it is open to final and intermediate markets. A firm can make or buy inputs, and transfer outputs downstream or sell them. Permeable vertical architectures are partly integrated and partly open to the...

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Management fashion as proto-professionalisation: the case of Knowledge Management

Perkmann, Markus - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

The article argues that management fashions can be interpreted as processes of emerging professionalisation around … particular bodies of management expertise. By integrating insights from research on professions and professionalisation …, management fashions are analysed as attempts by specific groups within organisations to establish themselves as professionals …

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