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The public sector’s need for strategic thinking and for strategic capabilities is increasingly taken for granted. They are both increasingly seen as essential. Importantly, the rise of strategic management in the public sector over the last two decades has accompanied changing ideas over the same period about how governments work and their desired attributes. However, much remains to be done to embed effective strategic management in government, much remains to be done to incorporate it into democratic governance, and there is little doubt that its efficacy will be put to a very severe test by the multiple challenges facing US and European society in the next decade.
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Joyce, P., Bryson, J.M., Holzer, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Joyce, P., Bryson, J.M., Holzer, M. (eds) Developments in Strategic and Public Management. IIAS Series: Governance and Public Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137336972_1
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