Public Strategic Plans in Italian Local Governments: A Sustainability Development Focus?

Mazzara, Luca; Siboni, Benedetta; Sangiorgi, Daniela

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1439802

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“…Content analysis is a method of document analysis that is used to “systematically and objectively identify special characteristics of messages” 29 . (p608) It has been used previously to analyse the content of municipal policy documents 30–33 . Recently, a group of Dutch researchers used content analysis to map interventions from their government's District Approach for severely deprived areas against six SDH categories 34 .…”

Section: Victorian Local Governments' Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

An analysis of local government health policy against state priorities and a social determinants framework

Browne

Davern

2016

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: Victorian local governments are required to develop Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plans that incorporate state‐level health planning priorities and address the social determinants of health. This paper describes a novel method for evaluating councils' performance against these requirements. Methods: Deductive content analysis was used to categorise all actions in 14 local government MPHWPs against Victorian state priorities as well as against social determinants of health policy areas. Results: More than 1,000 actions were identified. However, fewer than half directly addressed a state priority, with many actions addressing policy areas known to be broader determinants of health. In particular, there was a marked focus on leisure and culture, and on building social cohesion through changes to living and working conditions. Conclusions: Councils are working beyond state priorities and there was a clear emphasis on addressing the diverse upstream ‘causes of the causes’ of health, rather than health promotion behaviour change programs. Implications: The approach for data analysis and presentation provides a useful method for rapid appraisal of health and wellbeing actions relative to councils', and the State's, responsibility and efficacy in public health.

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Section: Victorian Local Governments' Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

An analysis of local government health policy against state priorities and a social determinants framework

Browne

Davern

2016

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…It is worth noting that gaps may be created if the strategic plan does not become a living document that guides top management in the decision making process (Duren 2010;Jen 2006;Mazzara et al 2010). Moreover, it is also seems that top management in these organizations was not properly ensuring that each department and unit developed its operational plan and connected it to the overall strategic plan of the organization to adequately achieve the strategic and operational objectives.…”

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“…It is worth saying that without genuine commitment from the top management to the organizational vision successful implementation is unlikely. Moreover, without linkingtop management decisions with organizational vision and managing for results, the agreed outcomes are unlikely to be achieved (Junusbekova 2013;Mazzara et al 2010).…”

Section: Top Management Support and Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic Management Practices: An Investigation of Public Sector Organizations in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Abushabab¹,

Abdi

2017

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Several authors argued that strategic planning is limited and not producing the needed outcomes. In todayâ€™s increasingly challenging environment, it is argued that public sector organizations are expected to shift from traditional strategic planning to the strategic management approach in order to achieve their desired outcomes. Previous research has focused almost upon developed, and not on developing countries, for instance, the Kingdom of Bahrain. This study will be the first of its kind to focus on strategic management practices based on the new strategy of Bahrain for 2030. Using quantitative survey method, this paper aims to explore the progress of the transition from strategic planning to the strategic management approach in the public sector of Bahrain, and then the paper explores the elements that are related to successful strategic management approach in these organizations. The findings reveal that the progress in the transition from strategic planning to a strategic management approach in most of the organizations surveyed was limited. However, some of the organizations were found to be at the start of such a transition and this may be a good sign. Additionally, the findings reported many leading edge elements that are closely related to this transition.

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“…With regard to Italian literature, the work of Mazzara, Sangiorgi, and Siboni (2010a;2010b) analyzed the practices used in local authorities considering sustainable development in a strategic point of view and presented a first analysis regarding the consideration of sustainable development in the strategic plans of local authorities.…”

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Sustainability Management in Italian Local Governments: What Is the Relationship Between Strategy and Financial Effort?

Costa¹,

Fabio²,

Preite³

et al. 2016

CUBR

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Is there a relationship between sustainability strategies and the financial efforts for their realization? This is a particularly complex question considering that sustainability has generated an intense academic and political debate. In order to contribute to the debate, the authors investigate the existence of the relationship between the strategies of local authorities in terms of sustainability and their translation into financial commitments. To this end, firstly, the paper shows the results of research that explores the sustainability strategies of a sample of the 20 Italian regional capital cities, through the content analysis of their Performance Plans. Secondly, the authors present their elaboration of financial data related to the main dimensions of sustainability (environment and territory management, welfare area, and economic development). Finally, they discuss the relationship between the two aspects surveyed (strategies and expenditures committed to sustainability) highlighting critical perspectives also for future research. Briefly, the conclusions underline: a) great autonomy in formulating strategies, highlighted by the different programming documents analyzed; b) the main terms related to sustainability are rarely used; c) particular importance, from a financial point of view, was given to the environmental and welfare sustainability dimensions both in relation to the total current expenditure committed, and in terms of financial implementation. The expenditure impact for economic development is much lower, while the average level of financial implementation of the same is higher; and d) a discrepancy between the limited strategic consideration of the sustainability dimensions and the considerable amount of financial commitments related to sustainability.

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Public Strategic Plans in Italian Local Governments: A Sustainability Development Focus?

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

An analysis of local government health policy against state priorities and a social determinants framework

An analysis of local government health policy against state priorities and a social determinants framework

Strategic Management Practices: An Investigation of Public Sector Organizations in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Sustainability Management in Italian Local Governments: What Is the Relationship Between Strategy and Financial Effort?

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