There are still few explanations of the micro detail through which top managers influence employee commitment to multiple strategic goals. This paper argues that through their language, top managers can construct a context for commitment to multiple strategic goals. We therefore propose a...

Recently there has been much debate about the usefulness of strategic management education and implicitly about strategy tools and frameworks. Yet, this debate is taking place in the absence of detailed knowledge about how, or indeed, whether, managers use the theoretical tools that they learn....

Meetings, an understudied aspect of organisational life, play a key role in theformulation of strategy and strategic change within organisations. More importantly,the likelihood of proposals for strategic change being made, and how those proposalsare received in the wider organisation, depends...