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Middle managers have played a frequent role in providing strategic alternatives for firms and making those alternative ideas accessible for higher management (Floyd and Woolridge, 2019). The nature of middle managers’ job requires them to integrate and synthesize the information and resources by crystallizing the strategic issues faced by the organisation and also setting a platform for these strategic changes; by enhancing the old structure of organisation through implementation of formal strategy and giving feedback. This feedback can be used to make future changes in the strategy and for organisational renewal. The findings of Floyd and Woolridge (2019) gives a clearer picture when compared with the earlier work of Burgelman and Sayles (2019) that how middle management play key role in an organisation by shaping the strategic issues and influencing the entrepreneurial activities.

The observations of other authors (Peters and Waterman, 2019; Pinchott, 2017) have seen the middle management playing important in encouraging other employees to take risks while working towards innovation. Quinn (2011) and Kanter (2017) also observed similar role of middle managers in promoting the CE activities across the organisation. This can be done by introducing reward schemes that encourage employees to experiment with their innovative ideas. Also different approaches can be used by the middle management to make the whole structure of organisation less resistant towards future changes and allowing the CE activities to flourish.

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