Public Strategic Planning Research Articles

Гібридна війна в Україні як ризикоутворюючий чинник глобалізації

Актуалізовано необхідність наукового осмислення ризикогенного впливу глобалізації у контексті пошуку оптимальних шляхів розбудови ризик-орієнтованого державного управління в Україні. Проаналізовано вплив таких ризикоутворюючих чинників глобалізації для сучасної України, як гібридні війни та гібридні загрози. Доведено, що неефективність і фактична відсутність діяльності з управління політичними та національними ризиками на державному рівні за весь період незалежності України стали одним із основних джерел критичних вразливостей Української держави поряд із спроможністю зовнішнього агресора підсилювати їх дію. Обґрунтування диференціацію політичних ризикогенних чинників, що формували критичні вразливості держави, на такі, що іманентно властиві Україні, і такі, що були навмисно створені Росією.

Socio-economic Situation of Vietnam in the Context of the Development of New Forms of Migration

Authors analyze migration and tourism in context of social and economic development of Vietnam as these processes objectively influence social and economic situation in Vietnam: Vietnam is on fourteenth place in world on population, being one of most densely populated countries of Southeast Asia, possesses unique climatic conditions, rich stories, convenient transport geographical position. Vietnam is labor-surplus country and considerable part of labor traditionally exports abroad. Vietnam actively develops. In it middle class that is ready to train children abroad forms and wants to travel abroad as tourists. Vietnam becomes more and more active participant of migratory processes and popular tourist direction in global economy. The authorities of Vietnam pay considerable attention to relief of passport and visa formalities for foreign citizens, first, of tourists. Economic migration from Russia is followed by capital export, which is put in business and economy of Southeast Asia, first, to Vietnam and Thailand. From 1990th to this region flow of tourists and migrants from Russia considerably increased, many of which opened business afterwards here, constantly live or regularly come, buy real estate, open shops, enterprises, and restaurants. There are new forms of social and economic adaptation of Russians in countries of this region result. In some Southeast Asian countries, the Russian presence becomes not only noticeable but also dominating. So, today Vietnam activates policy on attraction of foreign investments where it considers Russian investments as a priority. Researchers note, that in beginning of second decade of XXI century are available two determining tendencies in world society as new directions of modeling of methodology of public strategic planning: 1) increase of uniformity of world; 2) parallel strengthening of its complexity and even diversity caused by effect of hashing of diverse components of general world space by means of intensified migratory flows (Ryazantsev et al, 2014; Shakleina & Baykov, 2014; Ryazantsev et al, 2015 a; Ryazantsev et al, 2015 & Karepova et al, 2015). DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s3p135

Dynamic decision trees for building resilience into future eco-cities

Intensifying global urbanization and environmental changes bring about the imperative of sustainable urban development and decisions upon inescapable pressures and risks, but knowledge integration between disciplines is a limiting contextual challenge. This paper proposes a reformulation, in terms of urban risk management, of an earlier developed ontological scenario generation method. The procedure consists of several steps: (i) identification-and-prioritization of main pressures, (ii) paired discussion of pressures using four-cell matrices, (iii) re-visit of the pressures' priority order, (iv) articulation of short-listed pressures as decision-making questions, and (v) generation of scenarios via “yes/no” responses to each question, in their order of priority. In this article, the method feeds upon the general context described in recent multi-disciplinary urban studies and public strategic plans in the city of Iasi (Romania), to propose a formal procedure for enabling the acceleration of productive decision making towards city sustainability. Answering three top priority questions, namely “Implement a business-friendly and efficient governance system?”, “Develop a resource management system?”, and “Carry out a human capital accelerator strategy?” results in a 4-scenario set: Receding City, Wanting City, Promising City, Inspiring City. The scenarios are discussed in terms of systemic risks at the end of post-communist transition and beginning of the socio-economic convergence with Western Europe.

A Socio-technical Approach for Group Decision Support in Public Strategic Planning: The Pernambuco PPA Case

This article describes a socio-technical approach to public strategic planning. A multi-methodological framework with decision support systems (DSS) of problem structuring, multi-criteria decision analysis and strategic thinking was used in a decision conferencing process to support the key-players of the Pernambuco State Department of Social Development and Human Rights, in Brazil, to elaborate its 2008–2011 Multi-Annual Plan (PPA). This interactive process took place in June 2007, with thirty technical and political actors meeting in 5 consecutive days to discuss what should be the fundamental objectives/development axes of the PPA and to generate, assess and classify intervention programmes to achieve the objectives. Structuring objectives and programmes started by a group causal mapping session supported by the Decision Explorer DSS. Then, a multi-criteria group value model, created on-the-spot by means of the M-MACBETH DSS, helped the politicians in evaluating the overall benefit of each programme. The doability of the programmes was also appraised with MACBETH and, finally, the programmes were classified into four benefit versus doability categories defined in a \(2\times 2\) strategic graph: “pearls” (programmes with high benefit value and easy to implement), “oysters” (high benefit but difficult to implement), “bread and butter” (easy to implement but of low added value) and “white elephants” (low benefit and difficult to implement). The group agreed that at least all pearls and oysters should be selected. The programmes were prioritised based on their value-for-effort and the robustness of the selection was analysed with the PROBE DSS a posteriori.

'Cheap Talk'? I Think Not

This paper analyses market reactions to public strategic plan presentations by New CEOs of NYSE and NASDAQ companies. Existing research demonstrates that impression management occurs in ambiguous s...

Evaluation of Public Strategic Planning Models for Turkish Universities

Strategic planning in higher education institution is a systematic planning process designed to guide decisions about the improvement of education and training, research and development, and application and service processes. It also provides the allocation of financial and other resources, and the procurement of new resources. There are two fundamental regulations in Turkey which oblige universities to prepare strategic plans and set methods of preparation. These regulations have some points in common as well as differences. This paper aims to analyze these two approaches by addressing differences and similarities, and discuss jointly applicability of them. Preparing reports according to both DPT and YÖDEK models causes trouble in practice for universities. Therefore, a single model to be prepared jointly by relevant ministries and the Council of Higher Education should be formed instead of implementation two distinctive models. This integrated model also facilitates benchmarking by determining common targets and indicators for higher education institutions.

Public Strategic Plans In Italian local Governments

Internationally, the concept of sustainability development (SD) has been of increasing relevance since the Brundtland report was published. The European Commission (EC) has published a variety of documents that encourage member states to adopt SD strategies. This article analyses fourteen voluntary contemporary strategic plans (SPs) of Italian local governments (LGs) published on-line, in order to verify if there is a sustainability development focus. Strategic planning is still in its initial stage. Nevertheless, the study concluded that the group of SPs analysed appears to be aligned with EC recommendations.

Public Strategic Plans in Italian Local Governments: A Sustainability Development Focus?

Internationally there is an increasing relevance for the concept of sustainability development (SD), since the Brundtland report has been published. This has led governments and international institutions to promote organisations sustainability behaviours. The European Commission (EC) has published a variety of documents that encourage itself (Com(2001) 264 final; Com(2002) 82 final; Com(2005) 37 final; Com(2005) 658 final), national and regional governments (Com(2005) 718 final), and local governments (LGs) (Com(2006) 385 final), to adopt SD strategies. This study investigates what Italian LGs consider as a SD in their contemporary on-line published strategic plans (SPs), to address the lack of research in this topic. The research questions are the following: •What has been included in contemporary Italian LGs SPs? • What has or has not been reported in terms of SD basing on the EC framework for urban cohesion policy and cities (Com(2006)385 final) items? The study uses content analysis to determine the type and the extent of disclosure in specific media. An original coding instrument was developed to analyse the SPs practices against Com(2006)385 final items. It was found that SPs was voluntary. All items (policies and actions) basing on the Com(2006)385 final were disclosed. However the disclosure was stable and low under policies, while was instable under actions. The paper concludes that strategic planning in Italian LGs is still in its initial stage. Even thought, since EC framework for SD just suggest items to be chosen according to the LGs context, the study concluded that the group of SPs analysed shows to be aligned with EC recommendations.

In Pursuit of New Approaches to Strategic Spatial Planning. A European Perspective

This paper argues that working with the proper client, selecting the appropriate content and designing the vital arenas/forums is crucial for any kind of public strategic planning. The paper combines views reflected in planning literature with the accumulated experience of the author's planning practice and the more general practice of three recent plans at different scale levels: the European Spatial Development Perspective, the Second Structural Outline Benelux and the Structure Plan for Flanders. After reflecting on public strategic (spatial) planning as such, criteria are formulated regarding its content, taking into account the core of public strategic planning and the complex problems and developments taking place in real life. To increase the likelihood that a plan will be realized it needs a close dialogue with those whose cooperation is necessary for its implementation. Such a dialogue requires settings, arenas (formal and informal) and rules of behaviour with respect to the different stakeholders. Therefore a set of criteria arenas and forums should comply with are listed. Against this background the paper provides a first look at the issues of client, content and arenas/forums as dealt with in three recent strategic plans. Finally, the paper provides some first tentative conclusions.

Strategic Public Planning: External Orientations and Strategic Planning Team Members

It is commonly argued that public strategic planning should be led by a small team of individuals committed to the process; however, little guidance is provided on how to construct such a team. Prior straegic management and public administration literature has examined the differentiation between internal and external managerial orientation. Building on that differentiation, this research found that those individuals who possess a greater external orientation are the most likely to be committed to planning. Therefore, externally oriented managers would be the most appropriate for building a strategic management team.