Strategic management: Public sector view

Abstract

Strategic management has become an integral tool to organize actions in government, but most of the previous research effort has adopted a focus on individual organizations in studying private enterprises. Within the public sector, politics at the central and federal government plays an important part in decision-making and in implementing goals which also brings forth the importance of political struggle and bargaining. Many of the developments in strategic management can be viewed from the perspectives of strategic design, internal strategic scanning, and strategic governance which orient the attention to both system strategies in making choices for the government as whole as well as to the strategic choices within public agencies. These strategy modes are differently attuned to the focus of examination, method of reaching future circumstances, and preferred type of capital.