Revisiting the Miles and Snow typology of organizational strategy: uncovering interrelationships between strategic decision-making and public organizational performance

ABSTRACT

This study aims to reexamine the Miles and Snow strategy stance framework by uncovering the interrelationships between strategy content, strategic decision-making, and public organizational performance. The data for this study were collected from 224 respondents in senior management across public organizations in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data collected. The study found that the most important predictor of the three types of Miles and Snow typologies of strategy stances to be the prospector one followed by the reactor stance, while defenders have no significant effect on the use of performance information for both strategy implementation and reporting decision-making alongside public organizational performance. Our empirical analysis examines the question of whether the strategy content approaches adopted by public organizations in the TRNC and the use of performance information for strategic decision-making are conducive to enhanced and improved public organizational performance.

KEYWORDS:

• Strategic stance
• strategic decision-making
• strategy implementation
• strategy reporting
• public organizational performance
• TRNC public organizations

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful suggestions which improved this work significantly. And the authors thank all the study participants for their time devoted in answering the research survey at the TRNC public sector organizations.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Notes on contributors

Hasan Yousef Aljuhmani

Hasan Yousef Aljuhmani is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the centre for management research (CMR) at Girne American University (Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus, via Mersin 10, 99320, Turkey). His research interests are in strategic management and public administration in general; upper echelons theory (UET), organizational behavior, and strategic leadership in particular. Hasan Yousef Aljuhmani is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: [email protected]

Okechukwu Lawrence Emeagwali

Okechukwu Lawrence Emeagwali is an associate professor at Girne American University (Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus, via Mersin 10, 99320, Turkey). He is also chair of the business management department and director of the centre for management research (CMR) both housed at the university's faculty of business and economics. His current areas of research are in strategic management in general; upper echelons theory (UET), strategic leadership, strategic foresight and strategic thinking in particular.

Bashar Ababneh

Bashar Ababneh is an assistant professor in the faculty of management and economics, American University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Northern Cyprus, via Mersin 10, 99010, Turkey). He teaches across business management and tourism management courses. He has published in internationally peer reviewed journals and conferences. His current research interests are in knowledge management, organizational theory, and top-level management.