Formation and Identification of Strategic Issues in Organizations: A Review and Classification of Current Studies

DOI

10.2991/itmr.2015.5.1.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

strategic management, strategic issues formation, organization

Abstract

Identification of strategic issues assists organizations to pay attention to what is actually important in their long term decision making. The domain of strategic issue identification is broad, disperse and unclear. Since strategic issues are not predefined, the process of assigning the meaning to these issues and finding solutions for them is dynamic. Thus, the type of strategic issues faced by the organization, as well as how these issues are diagnosed and are formed influence which issues are included in the organization decision maker's agenda and which ones are ignored. The present research aims to take a step to fill the research gab in this context through representing a coherent picture of the subject matter literature on strategic issue area and how they are formed. Through a review of the current literature, this research outlines the process of formation and identification of strategic issues in three main categories: Environment sensing, issue sensing, and agenda formation.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bahareh Abedin
AU  - Asadollah Kordnaeij
AU  - Hasan Danaee Fard
AU  - Seyed Hamid Khodadad Hoseini
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/03/30
TI  - Formation and Identification of Strategic Issues in Organizations: A Review and Classification of Current Studies
JO  - The International Technology Management Review
SP  - 28
EP  - 39
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
SN  - 1835-5269
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itmr.2015.5.1.4
DO  - 10.2991/itmr.2015.5.1.4
ID  - Abedin2015
ER  -