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Knowledge management in strategic planning: The case of the dutch fourth report

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This article examines the management and use of knowledge in a relatively complex planning and policy process, i.e., the preparation and implementation of the Fourth Report on Physical Planning in the Netherlands. Attention is given to the organization of this process; the manner in which research, policy design and plan negotiation were intertwined in the various phases of the process; and the solutions developed for the problem of obtaining sufficient knowledge without losing the impetus essential to policy-making. General conclusions are derived especially concerning the interrelationship between policy-making and the accretion and depletion of knowledge stocks.

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While his earlier publications were primarily concerned with the application of demographic research in spatial policy, he has more recently shifted his attention to knowledge utilization problems in general.

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ter Heide, H. Knowledge management in strategic planning: The case of the dutch fourth report. Knowledge and Policy 5, 29–44 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02692804

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