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Strategy and Performance

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Johanson and Vakkuri put forward a combined view on the strategy performance interface. Strategic management and performance management are separate areas of activity, but they have multiple points of contact. The economy, efficiency and effectiveness are important aspects in designing organisation structures, developing heuristics and dealing with external constituencies. The long-terms consequences of the strategy performance interactions can be seen in the well-being of future generations, in development of social welfare and in the growth of the social capital.

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Johanson, JE., Vakkuri, J. (2019). Strategy and Performance. In: Strategy Formation and Policy Making in Government . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03439-9_8

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