Re-orienting the corporate entrepreneurial journey: Exploring the role of middle management

Creativity and Innovation Management

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-23

  Lassen, Astrid Heidemann ^a   Waehrens, Brian Vejrum ^a   Boer, Harry ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251527988     PISSN: 09631690     EISSN: 14678691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8691.2009.00508.x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Antoncic, B. and Hisrich, R.D. (2003) Clarifying the Intrapreneurship Concept. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 10, 18-25.
2. Balogun, J. and Johnson, G. (2004) Organizational Restructuring and Middle Manager Sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal, 47, 523-49.
3. Balogun, J. and Johnson, G. (2005) From Intended Strategies to Unintended Outcomes: The Impact of Change Recipient Sensemaking. Organization Studies, 26, 1573-601.
4. Covin, J.G. and Slevin, D.P. (1991) A Conceptual Model of Entrepreneurship as Firm Behaviour. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 16, 7-24.
5. Covin, J.G. and Slevin, D.P. (2002) The Entrepreneurial Imperatives of Strategic Leadership. In Hitt, M.A., Ireland, R.D., Camp, S.M. and Sexton, D.L. (eds.), Strategic Entrepreneurship. Creating a New Mind-set. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp. 309-23.
6. Dess, G.G., Lumpkin, G.T. and Covin, J.G. (1997) Entrepreneurial Strategy Making and Firm Performance: Test of Contingency and Configurational Models. Strategic Management Journal, 18, 677-95.
7. Duncan, R.B. (1976) The Ambidextrous Organization: Designing Dual Structures for Innovation. In Kilmann, R.H., Pondy, L.R. and Slevin, D. (eds.), The Management of Organization, Vol. 1. North-Holland, New York, pp. 167-88.
8. Eisenhardt, K.M. (1989) Building Theories from Case Study Research. Academy of Management Review, 14, 532-50.
9. Floyd, S.W. and Lane, P.J. (2000) Strategizing Throughout the Organization: Managing Role Conflict in Strategic Renewal. Academy of Management Review, 25, 154-77.
10. Greiner, L. (1972) Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow. Harvard Business Review, 50, 37-46.
11. Kanter, R.M. (1982) The Middle Manager as Innovator. Harvard Business Review, 60, 95-106.
12. Kuratko, D.F., Hornsby, J.S., Naffziger, D.W. and Montagno, R.V. (1993) Implement Entrepreneurial Thinking in Established Organizations. SAM Advanced Management Journal, 58, 28-39.
13. Kuratko, D.F., Ireland, R.D, Covin, J.G. and Hornsby, J.S. (2005) A Model of Middle Level Managers' Entrepreneurial Behavior. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 29, 699-716.
14. Lumpkin, G.T. and Dess, G.G. (1996) Clarifying the Entrepreneurial Orientation Construct and Linking It to Performance. Academy of Management Review, 21, 135-72.
15. March, J.G. (1995) The Future, Disposable Organizations and the Rigidities of Imagination. Organization, 2, 427-40.
16. Miller, D. and Friesen, P.H. (1983) Strategy-Making and Environment. Strategic Management Journal, 4, 221-31.
17. Nonaka, I. (1994) Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation. Organization Science, 5, 14-37.
18. Pettigrew, A.M., Whittington, R., Melin, L., Sanches-Runde, C., Van den Bosch, F., Ruigrok, W. and Numagami, T. (2003) Innovative Forms of Organizing. Sage, London.
19. Prahalad, C.K. and Bettis, R.A. (1986) The Dominant Logic: A New Linkage between Diversity and Performance. Strategic Management Journal, 7, 485-501.
20. Quinn, E. and Cameron, K. (1983) Organization Life Cycles and Shifting Criteria of Effectiveness: Some Preliminary Evidence. Management Science, 29, 33-51.
21. Reid, S.R. and De Brentani, U. (2004) The Fuzzy Front End of New Product Development for Discontinuous Innovations: A Theoretical Model. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 21, 170-84.
22. Romanelli, E. and Tushman, M.I. (1994) Organizational Transformation as Punctuated Equilibrium: An Empirical Test. Academy of Management Journal, 37, 1141-66.
23. Stopford, J.M. and Baden-Fuller, C.W.F. (1994) Creating Corporate Entrepreneurship. Strategic Management Journal, 15, 521-36.
24. Sutcliffe, K.M., Sitkin, S.B. and Browning, L.D. (2000) Tailoring Process Management to Situational Requirements. In Cole, R.E. and Scott, W.R. (eds.), The Quality Movement and Organization Theory. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
25. Tushman, M.L. and O'Reilly, C.A. (1996) Ambidextrous Organizations: Managing Evolutionary and Revolutionary Change. California Management Review, 38, 8-30.
26. Vey, M.A., Stergios, M.G. and Thomas, R.J. (2005) The Ambidextrous Senior Leadership Team. Research Report. Accenture, Institute for High Performance Business.
27. Volberda, H.W. (1998) Building the Flexible Firm. How to Remain Competitive. Oxford University Press, Oxford.