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This chapter has two aims: first, to establish those tasks and functions which characterize middle-management work (as distinct from top-management work); and second, to highlight differences between British and German middle managers in how that work is done.
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Stewart, R., Barsoux, JL., Kieser, A., Ganter, HD., Walgenbach, P. (1994). What Middle Managers Do. In: Managing in Britain and Germany. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23584-1_5
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