The field of strategic management has long alluded to the idea that lower-level employees
immersed in the day-to-day business have experiential insights of potential strategic value …

Anticipating and responding to emerging strategic issues can undoubtedly be argued to be
at the heart of corporate strategy making. By making timely adjustments and revisions to the …

In a fast-moving world, organizations can sustain a competitive edge by developing
actionable knowledge from streams of unstructured data. Front-line employees are among …

This research delves into an exploration of strategic management practices within
organizations operating in dynamically changing business environments. The primary …

Writing in 1993, Jane Dutton and Susan Ashford joined a group of scholars advocating a
more active role for middle managers in the strategy process (eg, Bower, 1970; Burgelman …

Issue management evolved from environmental scanning and other precursors to help
business organizations recognize and respond proactively to an increasing variety of …

Abstract Research Summary Many advances in strategic management have resulted from
the application of formal deductive methods, based on tests of specific hypotheses derived …

There exist two prominent accounts of how managers make sense of and take action in
relation to strategic issues. The threat–opportunity (TO) and feasibility–urgency (FU) …

In this study, we examined 82 accounts of “issue selling” to better understand managers'
implicit theories for successfully shaping change from below by directing the attention of top …

The basic idea for this thesis had been championed for years by my former supervisor, prof.
Rainer Born. It is the idea that no matter what we do, we must maintain a clear …