The discusion of structure following strategy or the opposite or both of them reacting to each other is open for years in the field of strategic management (Chandler, Mintzberg, others).
What I wonder is whether the answer (as inconclusive as it is) is the same for public sector or different views / findings are valid for that sub-field of strategic management. Is it asked in that contexts at all?
I did find some publications arguing that implementing strategy of public entity means also adjusting structure if necessary, but that's too little for a conclusive argument.
Dear Tomazs,
In my context, making a generalization seems difficult. Every alternative in the literature (e.g. strategy follows sturucture; structure follows strategy; they interact with each other; they are independent) seems possible under certain conditions. For example, public organizations sometimes adopt some structures ceremonically that are dictated by some forceful organizations. In this situation, structure can be independent (decoupled-loose coupled) from strategy of related organization. Good luck in your studies!
Best regards,
Mehmet
read the Article: Strategy in the Public and Private Sectors: Similarities, Differences and Changes
John Alford 1,* and Carsten Greve 2 1 The Australia and New Zealand School of Government PO Box 230 Carlton South VIC 3053, Australia 2 Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg DK-2000, Denmark; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]
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