Strategic Management Practices in the Public Sector: A literature review – Descriptive

Purposethis paper critically reviews the empirical studies that have been conducted to concentrate on the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of strategies within public sector organizations. Design/ methodology/approach-For the purpose of academic literature review of the topic, descriptive critical review method was applied, where most of the related academic journal papers since 2000 have been considered and later on carefully selected from the most notable academic and scholarly Journal's publication in the Strategic Management through searching the scholarly databases engines. Findings-Findings of this literature review have shown that still most of the public sector organizations struggling to copy and adopt the practices and models from the private sectors in their agenda. Nevertheless, while it comes to research on Strategic Management practices in the public sector, very few studies have been conducted in this domain.