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Ann Langley
Professeur titulaire
Department of management

Education
M.A.(Operational Research), Lancaster
Ph.D.(administration), HEC Montréal

Expertise
Strategy
Complex organizations
Organizational change
Health care management
Research methods		 Welcome to the website of the Canada Research Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings.

The chair was created in 2008 to carry out research on strategic management processes and practices appropriate to "pluralistic" settings, i.e., organizational contexts where objectives and values are multiple and ambiguous, where power and influence are shared among a variety of stakeholders, and where the knowledge required to make decisions is distributed among people at many levels and in different positions.

Some form of strategic management is needed to enable organizations to pursue their missions effectively in a dynamic and uncertain environment. Yet, most traditional models and techniques of strategic management were developed for organizations with hierarchical structures, clear economic purposes and a concentration of power and expertise at the top. So what are the appropriate methods in organizations where these assumptions are questionable? What types of tools are likely to be useful in such settings? How can strategic change be managed successfully where authority is limited and where people have different but equally legitimate ideas about what is important? These are some of the questions that will be examined by the Chair.