Getting strategic about strategic planning research

This introduction to the special issue on strategic planning has four main parts. First comes a discussion of what makes public-sector strategic planning strategic. This discussion is meant to reduce confusion about what strategic planning is and is not. Next, we introduce in detail the five article...

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Published inPublic management review Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 317 - 339
Main Authors Bryson, John M., Edwards, Lauren Hamilton, Van Slyke, David M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 04.03.2018
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Confusion
Planning
strategic management
Strategic planning
strategy
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Summary:This introduction to the special issue on strategic planning has four main parts. First comes a discussion of what makes public-sector strategic planning strategic. This discussion is meant to reduce confusion about what strategic planning is and is not. Next, we introduce in detail the five articles in the special issue and note their unique contributions to strategic planning research. Third, we provide a broad assessment of the current state of strategic planning research organized in terms of prominent themes in the literature and our assessment of how the articles address voids related to the themes. The themes are: how should strategic planning be conceptualized and defined? How should it be studied? How does strategic planning work, or not? What are the outcomes of strategic planning? What contributes to strategic planning success? Finally, we offer conclusions and an agenda for future research.
ISSN:1471-9037
1471-9045
DOI:10.1080/14719037.2017.1285111