Impact of Domestic Culture on the Effectiveness of Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is considered by all kind of organizations, being public or private as an effective scheme, which allows these organizations to flourish and stay competitive. In the latest decades, these management practices gained enormous momentum in developing countries, as is in developed countries, and they indeed become common practice. However, practicing strategic planning does not always lead to the same level of success among organizations, and even among different countries. Various reasons might influence the level of success and effectiveness of the strategic planning practices. We believe that prevailing culture, common beliefs and attitudes, contribute to explaining some of these differences in strategic planning effectiveness. As is raveled by the extensive literature review that was conducted throughout this study, we did not come across studies that dealt with this issue so far. This is one reason why we decided to conduct this study. This research was conducted between Feb. 2017 and Feb. 2018 in Palestine, and aimed at investigating the impact of domestic cultural on the effectiveness of strategic planning in multi-sector organizations.