Organizational Publicness And Its Implications For Strategic Management

This article addresses differences between the public sector, the third sector (private, nonprofit), and the private sectors and how these differences influence the content and process of strategic management. These differences make approaches to strategic management developed for private organizations somewhat incomplete and potentially misleading when applied in public settings. Practices that can be useful for organizations with significant amounts of publicness are offered, providing a basis for prescriptive and descriptive research into strategic management.