Integrating modes of policy analysis and strategic management practice: Requisite elements and dilemmas

C. Eden, F. Ackermann, John M Bryson, G. P. Richardson, D. F. Andersen, C. B. Finn

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Abstract

There is a need to bring methods to bear on public problems that are inclusive, analytic, and quick. This paper describes the efforts of three pairs of academics working from three different though complementary theoretical foundations and intervention backgrounds (ie ways of working) who set out together to meet this challenge. Each of the three pairs had conducted dozens of interventions that had been regarded as successful or very successful by the client groups in dealing with complex policy and strategic problems. One approach focused on leadership issues and stakeholders, another on negotiating competitive strategic intent with attention to stakeholder responses, and the third on analysis of feedback ramifications in developing policies. This paper describes the 10-year longitudinal research project designed to address the above challenge. The important outcomes are reported: the requisite elements of a general integrated approach and the enduring puzzles and tensions that arose from seeking to design a wide-ranging multi-method approach.Journal of the Operational Research Society (2009) 60, 2-13. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602575 Published online 26 March 2008

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2-13
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of the Operational Research Society
Volume60
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2009

Keywords

  • Multi-method
  • Policy analysis
  • Simulation modelling

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