A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems (2024)
Journal Article
Healy, J., Hughes, J., Donnelly-Cox, G., & Shantz, A. (2024). A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 21, Article e00455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00455

Advice abounds on how to implement large-scale social change, much of which emphasizes a simplistic linear process, led by a heroic central actor. Rigorous case studies have shown that social change is far more complex: it is a reci... Read More about A long and winding road: The hard graft of scaling social change in complex systems.

My colleagues (do not) think the same: Middle managers’ shared and separate realities in strategy implementation (2023)
Journal Article
Schuler, B., Orr, K., & Hughes, J. (2023). My colleagues (do not) think the same: Middle managers’ shared and separate realities in strategy implementation. Journal of Business Research, 160, Article 113782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113782

How does middle managers’ sensemaking of other middle managers’ attitudes to a new strategy affect strategy implementation? We explore this question using a qualitative-abductive approach. Our investigation of the implementation of a top-down strateg... Read More about My colleagues (do not) think the same: Middle managers’ shared and separate realities in strategy implementation.