Integration Projects as Relational Spaces Catalyzing Acquired Middle Managers’ Strategic Action

Middle Managers, Strategic Sensemaking, and Discursive Competence

This paper seeks to better understand the way middle managers contribute strategically to the development of an organization by examining how they enact the strategic roles allocated to them, with particular reference to strategic change. Through vignettes drawn from the authors’ current research, a framework is developed that shows two situated, but interlinked, discursive activities, ‘perform...

Relational action model learning and planning integration Relational action model learning and planning integration

Résumé : This paper addresses a relational reinforcement learning-like problem with general action-model relational learning and planning techniques. We propose an integrated system for both action model learning and action selection in the context of adaptive behavior of autonomous agents. Learning is incremental. It operates with relational representations and produces disjunctions of 1st ord...

Images as action instruments in complex projects

Using Action Research Projects to Examine Teacher Technology Integration Practices

This study examined the technology integration practices of teachers involved in a statewide initiative via one cycle of action research. It differs from other studies of teacher technology integration practices because it simultaneously involved and provided direct benefits to teachers and researchers. The study used thematic analysis to provide a macro-level view of the technology integration...

Understanding How Middle Managers Prpmote IT Change: A Strategic Actor And Cultural Approach

This article in progress aims to understand the role of culture in the way middle managers promote Information Technologies (IT) and technological change. To gain new insights, this paper presents an approach of change and of culture based on the theory of the strategic actor of Crozier and Friedberg (1977). In this view, how and to what extent middle managers promote IT in the workplace is ass...