正式的战略规划重要吗?对挪威市级政府的战略管理和感知效用分析

Does formal strategic planning matter?An analysis of strategic management and perceived usefulness in Norwegian municipalities

本文评估了市政管理者是否认为战略规划在被纳入强制性地区或财务规划流程或在单独的战略规划文件的流程中能够发挥最大的作用。尽管战略规划在实践中被广泛采用,并在学界中被广泛争论了几十年,但目前为政策制定者和公共管理者提供关于战略规划常见设计选择的建议上,几乎没有实证基础的研究。对128个挪威城市进行的多元回归分析表明,自愿使用单独的战略规划文件与高层管理者对战略规划的感知效用有关;将战略规划纳入其他管理流程也与战略规划的感知效用有关。出乎意料的是,将强制性规划文件(如四年财务计划和长期地区计划)作为主要的战略规划文件,规划过程中的形式和利益相关者的参与和战略规划的感知效用无关。

This article assesses whether municipal managers perceive strategic planning as most useful when integrated into mandatory area or financial-planning processes or conducted in processes with separate strategic planning documents.Despite being widely adopted in practice and being extensively debated in scholarly discourse for decades,current research has little empirical grounding for providing advice for policymakers and public managers on such common design choices.Multiple regression analysis of128 Norwegian municipalities shows that using a voluntary separate strategic planning document was related to top management’s perceived usefulness of strategic planning.Integrating strategic planning into other management processes was also related to the perceived usefulness of strategic planning.Unexpectedly,using mandatory planning documents(such as four-year financial plans and long-term area plans)as the main strategic planning documents,formality and stakeholder involvement in the planning processes were not related to the perceived usefulness of strategic planning.