Within the public sector strategies are not designed to influence markets but instead to guide operations within a complex environment of multilateral power influence bargaining and voting. In this book authors David McNabb and Chung-Shingh Lee examine five frameworks public sector organization managers have followed when designing public sector strategies. Its purpose is to serve as a guide for managers and administrators of large and small public organizations and agencies. This book is the product of a combined more than sixty years of researching teaching and leading organizational seminars on the theory and practice of management applications in industrial commercial nonprofit and public sector organizations. The book consists of four parts: Strategic Management and Strategy Fundamentals; Frameworks for Designing Strategies; Examples of Public Sector Strategies; and Implementing Strategic Management. Throughout the focus is on the widespread value of strategic management and adopting the strategy appropriate for the organization. Including chapters on game theory competitive forces resources-based view dynamic capabilities and network governance the authors demonstrate ways that real managers of public sector and civil society organizations have put strategic management to work in their organizations. This book will be of interest to both practicing and aspiring public servants. Language: English