Formulating Open Strategies in a University Setting: A Response to Increased Societal Expectations and Stakeholder Demands

TY - CONF

T1 - Formulating Open Strategies in a University Setting: A Response to Increased Societal Expectations and Stakeholder Demands

AU - Romanova, Gergana Petrova

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The university’s missions and its role in society have been an important discussion as stakeholder expectations rise and budgetary constraints tighten. In order to respond to these macro conditions, strategic planning has become increasingly integral to university operations with research universities developing each their own university strategy addressing internal matters and external opportunities. The following qualitative investigation explores the process of formulating a strategy at the large science research and education institution. Addressing questions related to openness as an organizing principle, results suggest that inclusion and transparency are widely promoted in the strategy-making process, however the strategy formulation process of individual sub-units of the organization becomes a practice of combining top-down and bottom-up approaches as a way to maintain openness, inclusion and transparency of strategic goals and within the process itself.

AB - The university’s missions and its role in society have been an important discussion as stakeholder expectations rise and budgetary constraints tighten. In order to respond to these macro conditions, strategic planning has become increasingly integral to university operations with research universities developing each their own university strategy addressing internal matters and external opportunities. The following qualitative investigation explores the process of formulating a strategy at the large science research and education institution. Addressing questions related to openness as an organizing principle, results suggest that inclusion and transparency are widely promoted in the strategy-making process, however the strategy formulation process of individual sub-units of the organization becomes a practice of combining top-down and bottom-up approaches as a way to maintain openness, inclusion and transparency of strategic goals and within the process itself.

M3 - Paper

T2 - European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

Y2 - 1 July 2019 through 5 July 2019

ER -