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

TY - ABST

T1 - Formulating Open Strategies in a University Setting

T2 - Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2019

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. This inductive case study 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 the individual departments becomes a practice of combining top-down and bottom-up approaches as a way to maintain openness and participation at 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. This inductive case study 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 the individual departments becomes a practice of combining top-down and bottom-up approaches as a way to maintain openness and participation at the process itself.

U2 - 10.5465/ambpp.2019.17071abstract

DO - 10.5465/ambpp.2019.17071abstract

M3 - Conference abstract in journal

SN - 2151-6561

VL - 2019

JO - Academy of Management Proceedings

JF - Academy of Management Proceedings

IS - 1

M1 - 17071

Y2 - 9 August 2019 through 13 August 2019

ER -