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Planning Failures: Decision Cultural Clashes
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 23, Number 1, Fall 1999
- pp. 1-21
- 10.1353/rhe.1999.0025
- Article
- Additional Information
This paper describes the inconsistencies between the rational decision-making basis for strategic planning and higher education's collegial/professional, dual hierarchical decision-making culture--inconsistencies that pose obvious problems for strategic planning in higher education. The results of a case study illustrate the cultural clashes that can occur when those differences are ignored; finally, the article suggests several steps for alleviating such problems.