Local governments play a critical role in delivering services to the public. Over recent
decades scholars have begun to empirically examine the relationship between the …

Strategic management is now prominent on the agenda of public administration scholars
and practitioners. In this review, the authors outline why approaches based on strategy are …

Strategic planning is a widely adopted management approach in contemporary
organizations. Underlying its popularity is the assumption that it is a successful practice in …

Strategic management is an approach to strategizing by public organizations or other
entities that integrates strategy formulation and implementation, and typically includes …

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 …

Recent years have seen a substantial growth in the large-N quantitative study of public
management and performance. Much of the progress can be attributed to a small number of …

Published in 1997, the article “Treating Networks Seriously: Practical and Research‐Based
Agendas in Public Administration” outlined the importance of networks for the field of public …

Strategic management (SM) has become prominent on the agenda in several public
organizations due to new public management (NPM) reforms. Nevertheless, there are few …

We assess the usefulness of a theory of organizations, the Resource-Based View, for the
study of public agencies. We examine the differential impacts of an array of organizational …

Although performance management processes are widely assumed to be beneficial in
improving organizational performance in the public sector, there is insufficient empirical …