The Strategy Process as a Result of Learning, Questioning, and Performing in a City Organization

Brorström, S. (2019). The Strategy Process as a Result of Learning, Questioning, and Performing in a City Organization. International Public Management Journal, 1–25. doi:10.1080/10967494.2019.1606127

Platform: Gothenburg

Publication type: Scientific article (peer-reviewed)

Projects: Formative evaluation of the implementation of the River City vision

DOI Title: The Strategy Process as a Result of Learning, Questioning, and Performing in a City Organization

Journal: International Public Management Journal

ISSN/ISBN: 1096-7494 1559-3169

DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2019.1606127

Author(s): Sara Brorström

Published year: 2019

Subject: Business and International Management Public Administration

Related content: Strategizing sustainability: the case of River City, Gothenburg

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Abstract

This article analyzes a strategy-drafting process, using it to illustrate what can happen in a strategy process that affects a city organization but is invisible in the final strategy document. In the ethnographically inspired method, a city organization and its strategy-formulating work were followed for two years. Observations and interviews were the main data-collection methods. The article builds on a framework from the strategy and public management literature. The article concludes that strategy formulation in public organizations is a means of learning new practices, questioning ongoing development, and enhancing performance.

The Strategy Process as a Result of Learning, Questioning, and Performing in a City Organization

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