Authors: Ioannis Rossidis, Dimitrios Belias, Stefanos Papailias

Title: Strategic management in the Greek public sector. In search of best practices in the international environment

Abstract

Strategic management over the last years is widely used as essential to the public sector globally, leading to better performance and better outcomes for the public. Effective governments should aim at formulating and implementing long-term goals and strategies, multilevel governance, effective coordination and so on. Strategic management is considered to be a broader process of managing public organizations in a strategic manner on a continuing basis. The Greek public sector undergoes the transition from bureaucratic to contemporary approaches of new public management tends to implement a more strategic oriented management. This paper aims to demonstrate the ways that the Greek public sector could improve its effectiveness by analyzing and implicating strategic management cases and good practices from the international environment. This article focuses on highlighting key issues and in depth knowledge, significant for attaining public strategic management. The fruits of further concentrated research can improve public strategic management practice, including enhanced organizational capacity for addressing current and future challenges and improvements in long-term performance.