Exploring the Long-term Effect of Strategy Work: The Case of Sustainable Sydney 2030

Martin Kornberger*, Renate Meyer, Markus A. Höllerer

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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Abstract

Strategy has become an important concern and practical tool in urban management and governance, with the literature highlighting implementation as a hallmark of effective strategy. Whilst such a strategy–action link (which we label here as ‘implementation nexus’) has been well established, other long-term effects have been documented in less detail. Our study of Sustainable Sydney 2030 finds that strategy was effective to the extent to which it changed the institutional a priori of what a collective of actors engaged in city-making knows, what it can articulate and how its members relate to each other. We capture this effect as ‘institution nexus’ and theorise our findings with Ludwik Fleck’s concept of ‘thought style’ of a focal ‘thought collective’– notions that also centrally influenced Mary Douglas’ work on ‘how institutions think’. We contribute to extant research by adding the institution nexus as a long-term effect of urban strategy as well as by advancing strategy theory in urban studies to foreground its ability to shape institutions.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftUrban Studies
Vol/bind58
Udgave nummer16
Sider (fra-til)3316-3334
Antal sider19
ISSN0042-0980
DOI
StatusUdgivet - dec. 2021
Udgivet eksterntJa

Bibliografisk note

Published online: 13. January 2021

Emneord

  • Effect
  • Institution
  • Sustainable sydney 2030
  • Thought collective
  • Thought style
  • Urban Strategy

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