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 … D. Keeves -- 5. Strategy-as-practice research on middle managers and sensemaking / Juila Balogun and Linda Rouleau -- 6 …

business, strategic management, and the wider field of organisational studies. It will also appeal to business managers …

advances a more integrative framework. He probes issues such as: • the tension between the need and the ability to contract … control • dialectical tensions stemming from contract application • standardization of contracting practices. By exploring … -- ch. 3. Need versus ability to contract -- ch. 4. How trust and contracts coevolve -- ch. 5. Functions of negotiation and …

Street Journal, A1 -- Macneil, I.R. (1980), The New Social Contract: An Inquiry into Modern Contractual Relations, New Haven …-46 -- Poppo, L. and M. Lacity, (2006), 'The Normative Value of Transaction Cost Economics: What Managers Have Learned about TCE …, and Relational Contract Law', Northwestern University Law Review, 72 (6), 854-905 -- Ronald Coase (1998), 'The New …

implications -- 4. Investor capitalism and the nexus of contract view of the firm: assessing the consequences -- Postscript …

-- Domains -- 17. Creative leadership among executives and managers / Gerard Puccio, Marie Mance, and Selcuk Acar -- 18 …