Decision-Making in Decentralized Innovation Departments in the FEI: A Case Study on the Roles of the Middle Management
(2018) ENTN39 20181Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- By exploring a case study of a Swedish media company, this thesis examines the roles of the middle management in influencing the decision-making of the top management and employees in decentralized innovation departments. For the top management’s decision-making, it was found that the middle manager performs an informing role, an inspiring role and a championing role, which are manifest on either the overall department level or on the project-specific level. The employee’s decision-making was affected throughout different project phases, where the middle manager sets the focus, brings new insights, and has supporting, sparring, clarifying, and advising roles.
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- author
- Vandewalle, Aurélie LU and van Setten, Hanna LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- ENTN39 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Front End Innovation, decentralization, decision-making, brokerage, top management, middle management, employees
- language
- English
- id
- 8945759
- date added to LUP
- 2018-06-27 15:14:42
- date last changed
- 2018-06-27 15:14:42
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