Tapping into hospital champions--strategic middle managers.
A social network analysis of eighty-nine midlevel health care professionals showed that middle managers' strategic knowledge is positively associated with championing alternative ideas and synthesizing new information for upper management. In addition, the relationship between knowledge and middle management strategic activities in informal networks is moderated by the manager's social position.
Pappas
James M
JM
College of Business Administration, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA. pappas@okstate.edu
Flaherty
Karen E
KE
Wooldridge
Bill
B
D002410:Catholicism; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004465:Economic Competition; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D019359:Knowledge; D007857:Leadership; D009874:Operations Research; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D024382:Professional Role; D012944:Social Support