Despite of increasing interest in social cognitive research in strategic management during recent years, few studies … have examined the relationship between cognitive structures of top management and middle management. This study represents … the information processing approach in managerial cognition research assuming that top management communicate their shared …

championing. More specifically, the authors consider the following research question: How does the manner in which middle managers … of the firm with research on middle management championing behaviors and issue-contingent models of ethical decision …