TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategic Planning and Implementation Success in Public Service Organizations
T2 - Evidence from Canada
AU - Elbanna, Said
AU - Andrews, Rhys
AU - Pollanen, Raili
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for the 2-year research grant received from the National Research Foundation, United Arab Emirates [UAE-NRF#: RSA-1108-00788], which enabled this research study to be carried out.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2016/8/8
Y1 - 2016/8/8
N2 - In this article, we examine the role that formal strategic planning plays in determining the success of strategy implementation in a set of more than 150 public service organizations from Canada. We also analyse the mediating effects of managerial involvement in strategic planning and the moderating effects of stakeholder uncertainty on the planning-implementation relationship. A structured online questionnaire was used to collect the data. Our findings suggest that formal strategic planning has a strong positive relationship with implementation, which, though mediated by managerial involvement, becomes even more salient in the face of stakeholder uncertainty. Several implications of these findings are discussed.
AB - In this article, we examine the role that formal strategic planning plays in determining the success of strategy implementation in a set of more than 150 public service organizations from Canada. We also analyse the mediating effects of managerial involvement in strategic planning and the moderating effects of stakeholder uncertainty on the planning-implementation relationship. A structured online questionnaire was used to collect the data. Our findings suggest that formal strategic planning has a strong positive relationship with implementation, which, though mediated by managerial involvement, becomes even more salient in the face of stakeholder uncertainty. Several implications of these findings are discussed.
KW - Strategic planning
KW - implementation success
KW - managerial involvement
KW - public service organizations: Canada
KW - strategy implementation
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U2 - 10.1080/14719037.2015.1051576
DO - 10.1080/14719037.2015.1051576
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84936971283
SN - 1471-9037
VL - 18
SP - 1017
EP - 1042
JO - Public Management Review
JF - Public Management Review
IS - 7
ER -