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Valstybės valdymo makro strategijos formavimas
MACRO STRATEGY FORMATION OF STATE GOVERNANCE

Author(s): Giedrius Miliauskas, Artūras Grebliauskas
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: išorinė ir vidinė valstybės aplinka; valstybės strategijos formavimas; external and domestic state environment; state strategy formation.

Summary/Abstract: The authors investigate the world processes showing the impact of those processes on the nation state and try to define the formation of the state’s governance strategy. The article deals with the following questions: What impact do the world processes have on the development of the nation state? How to define the state as an object of strategic governance and to identify state goals? How to define the state as a subject of strategic governance and to identify the state’s institutional structure? How to validate the logic of the state’s strategy formation? Globalization as an objective world process could be interpreted as the external environment of the nation state. When the nation state face globalization, the latter raises a question: do global and regional interaction models change the conception of sovereignty in such a way that it could be understand as divided among a lot of institutions such as national, regional and international? Due to globalization change the interrelations between state and market. In the sense of strategic governance globalization erases boundaries distinguishing domestic and foreign policies, it changes the context of the nation state as well as the decision-making conditions. With reference to the strategic management theories of organizations the authors of the article try to substantiate the object of strategic management and the subject of an organization. Such a definition gives a possibility to investigate more precisely the object and subject of the state’s strategic governance. When the state is defined as an object of strategic governance then other parts of that object are analyzed: for instance, the idea of state, nation, territory, sovereignty, nationality. The mentioned parts are the fundamental components of the nation state as a strategic object. It is clear that interrelations among them are very close. Also these criteria determine the state’s strategic goals. The state as a strategic subject of governance should be analyzed with reference to the state’s constitutional model which explains the functions and competence of state institutions. The impact of external environment on the state’s power and state in¬stitutions as well as on particular objects also needs to be analyzed. The formation of the state’s governance strategy should refer to three types of factors. One of these types is fixed factors such as culture, geographic location, topography, history, and climate conditions. These factors also show particular conditions and kinds of resource necessary for strategy formation. Due to those fixed factors there cannot exist two identical strategies. Other conditions appear as a result of fixed factors. The second group of other im¬portant factors consists of private and public market institutions, economical structure and ownership. Flexible factors make the third group, i.e. monetary and fiscal policy, international relations, tax system and etc. It is evident that fixed factors are cruci

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 47
  • Page Range: 55-71
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Lithuanian
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