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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Strategic Management Thinking and Practice in the Public Sector: A Strategic Planning for All Seasons?
Contributor:
Johnsen, Åge
Published:
Wiley, 2015
Published in:
Financial Accountability & Management, 31 (2015) 3, Seite 243-268
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/faam.12056
ISSN:
0267-4424;
1468-0408
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
AbstractThis paper explores how strategic management thinking manifests itself in strategic management practice in the public sector. Mintzberg's framework of ten strategic management schools of thought is chosen for mapping strategic management thinking. The paper analyses a convenience sample of 35 strategic management processes, observation of an agency's strategy reformulation process and interviews of managers in the public sector in Norway for informing the discussion. Strategic planning is heavily criticised in some of the business strategy literature. The analysis indicates that strategic management in the public sector extensively uses strategic planning, bundled with certain other schools of thought, despite tendencies to downplay formal, mechanistic planning in contemporary strategic management theory.