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Article: Strategic Management and the Performance of Public Organizations: Testing Venerable Ideas again Recent Theories
Title | Strategic Management and the Performance of Public Organizations: Testing Venerable Ideas again Recent Theories |
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Issue Date | 2007 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/ |
Citation | Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2007, v. 17 n. 3, p. 357-377 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Miles and Snow, among others, argue that strategy content is an important influence on organizational performance. Their typology, applied recently to public organizations in the United Kingdom, divides strategic actors into four general types: prospectors, defenders, analyzers, and reactors. This article begins by integrating work on strategy content or strategic management into the O'Toole-Meier formal theory of public management. This study shows that strategy content is a subset of generally accepted management functions in public organizations. The article then proceeds to test the strategic management concepts in a large, multiyear sample of public organizations. The results show that strategy can be separated out from other elements of management for a distinguishable assessment of its impact on organizational performance. Unlike the predictions of Miles and Snow and the empirical findings of Boyne and Walker, however, we find that the defender strategy is the most effective for the primary mission of the organization and that the prospector and reactor strategies work best in regard to the goals of the more politically powerful elements of the organization's environment. © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Inc. All rights reserved. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/89952 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 5.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.981 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Meier, KJ | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | O’Toole Jr, LJ | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Boyne, GA | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Walker, RM | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-06T10:03:49Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-09-06T10:03:49Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2007, v. 17 n. 3, p. 357-377 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 1053-1858 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/89952 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Miles and Snow, among others, argue that strategy content is an important influence on organizational performance. Their typology, applied recently to public organizations in the United Kingdom, divides strategic actors into four general types: prospectors, defenders, analyzers, and reactors. This article begins by integrating work on strategy content or strategic management into the O'Toole-Meier formal theory of public management. This study shows that strategy content is a subset of generally accepted management functions in public organizations. The article then proceeds to test the strategic management concepts in a large, multiyear sample of public organizations. The results show that strategy can be separated out from other elements of management for a distinguishable assessment of its impact on organizational performance. Unlike the predictions of Miles and Snow and the empirical findings of Boyne and Walker, however, we find that the defender strategy is the most effective for the primary mission of the organization and that the prospector and reactor strategies work best in regard to the goals of the more politically powerful elements of the organization's environment. © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Inc. All rights reserved. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/ | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | en_HK |
dc.rights | Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Copyright © Oxford University Press. | en_HK |
dc.title | Strategic Management and the Performance of Public Organizations: Testing Venerable Ideas again Recent Theories | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.openurl | http://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=1053-1858&volume=17&issue=3&spage=357&epage=377&date=2007&atitle=Strategic+Management+and+the+Performance+of+Public+Organizations:+Testing+Venerable+Ideas+again+Recent+Theories | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Walker, RM: rwalker@hkucc.hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Walker, RM=rp00876 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/jopart/mul017 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-34548154928 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 136674 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000247472300001 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1053-1858 | - |