Integrating Modes of Policy Analysis and Strategic Management Practice: Requisite Elements and Dilemmas

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 to...

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Main Authors: Eden, C., Ackermann, Fran, Bryson, J., Richardson, G., Anderson, D., Finn, C.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Palgrave MacMillan 2009
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Online Access:http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/v60/n1/full/2602575a.html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7717
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author Eden, C.
Ackermann, Fran
Bryson, J.
Richardson, G.
Anderson, D.
Finn, C.
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description 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.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-77172018-03-29T09:05:39Z Integrating Modes of Policy Analysis and Strategic Management Practice: Requisite Elements and Dilemmas Eden, C. Ackermann, Fran Bryson, J. Richardson, G. Anderson, D. Finn, C. simulation modelling policy analysis multi-method 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. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7717 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602575 http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/v60/n1/full/2602575a.html Palgrave MacMillan restricted
spellingShingle simulation modelling
policy analysis
multi-method
Eden, C.
Ackermann, Fran
Bryson, J.
Richardson, G.
Anderson, D.
Finn, C.
Integrating Modes of Policy Analysis and Strategic Management Practice: Requisite Elements and Dilemmas
title Integrating Modes of Policy Analysis and Strategic Management Practice: Requisite Elements and Dilemmas
title_full Integrating Modes of Policy Analysis and Strategic Management Practice: Requisite Elements and Dilemmas
title_fullStr Integrating Modes of Policy Analysis and Strategic Management Practice: Requisite Elements and Dilemmas
title_full_unstemmed Integrating Modes of Policy Analysis and Strategic Management Practice: Requisite Elements and Dilemmas
title_short Integrating Modes of Policy Analysis and Strategic Management Practice: Requisite Elements and Dilemmas
title_sort integrating modes of policy analysis and strategic management practice: requisite elements and dilemmas
topic simulation modelling
policy analysis
multi-method
url http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jors/journal/v60/n1/full/2602575a.html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7717