Vertical and lateral dynamics of middle managers' strategizing for institutional complexity

Jonasson, C and Bjerregaard, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6757-703X, 2024. Vertical and lateral dynamics of middle managers' strategizing for institutional complexity. Journal of Management and Organization. ISSN 1833-3672 (Forthcoming)

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Abstract

Research suggests that institutional complexity is of strategic importance and recent calls have been made to investigate organizational strategizing in such a situation of multiple institutional logics. We therefore investigate middle managers’ strategizing for institutional complexity. In doing so, we follow theoretical suggestions of a renewed practice-based view on strategizing as a broad social accomplishment beyond top management activities. Based on a qualitative field study in a company under influence of substantive financial reform, findings show that middle managers re-strategize institutional complexity at the vertical interstices of top management strategies and the distributed agency of their followers. Furthermore, the study highlights the character and effects of lateral dynamics of middle managers’ competing strategizing. We explain how these vertical and lateral dynamics provide insight into strategizing for institutional complexity as a distributed, situated, and emergent social accomplishment. Such strategizing practices have unintended organizational consequences beyond both top and middle management control.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Management and Organization
Creators:	Jonasson, C. and Bjerregaard, T.
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date:	13 May 2024
ISSN:	1833-3672
Identifiers:	Number Type 1894270 Other
Rights:	Accepted for publication in Journal of Management and Organization. The present version may differ from the published version.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	06 Jun 2024 08:36
Last Modified:	06 Jun 2024 08:36
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51533

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