Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis dissertation explores strategic planning in federal agencies. The research seeks to uncover difficulties federal agencies experience when making strategic plans, to explore the relationship between these difficulties and the degree of publicness of the agencies, and to uncover and describe techniques used by federal agencies to overcome difficulties. The research is important because strategic planning has gained renewed interest in federal government organizations stimulated by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 and there are few empirical studies on strategic planning based on the public character of these organizations. The results present the difficulties and techniques reported by planners in eighteen separate federal agencies and show a relationship between the degree of publicness of the agency and the difficulties encountered in strategic planning.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph. D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Public Administration and Public Affairs
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Public Administration and Public Affairs
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1998
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Baile, Kenneth C.
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Dickey, John W.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Dudley, Larkin S.
- Pollard, James R.
- Colvard, James E.
- Dickey, John W.
- Wolf, James F.
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-4598-12456
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/30550