Il presente lavoro ha l’obiettivo di proporre, discutere e testare empiricamente una metodologia di analisi operativa che consenta di misurare la distanza tra strategia deliberata ed emergente nelle amministrazioni pubbliche e valutare il grado di consapevolezza dei decisori pubblici per comprendere in che misura la strategia emergente sia intenzionale. La metodologia operativa è testata in un caso aziendale significativo, per validarne l’efficacia e la forza interpretativa.
Strategy can be formal and not implemented, or emergent without any formal plan. In both cases it makes a difference if politicians are aware of the emergent strategy or if it is just embedded in the organization’s development path. These ideas are often discussed in the public management literature. We try to fi nd evidence for them, defi ning a methodology to measure the distance between formal and emergent strategy and politicians’ awareness of it. This methodology has been tested in a case producing many intriguing fi ndings.
Strategy can be formal and not implemented, or emergent without any formal plan. In both cases it makes a difference if politicians are aware of the emergent strategy or if it is just embedded in the organization’s development path. These ideas are often discussed in the public management literature. We try to fi nd evidence for them, defi ning a methodology to measure the distance between formal and emergent strategy and politicians’ awareness of it. This methodology has been tested in a case producing many intriguing fi ndings.
