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zare khalili M, salimi G, mohamadi M, Jahani J, Ali Mohammadlou M. Reflecting on the Organizational Barriers to Strategy Implementation in Iranian State Universities: A Multi-Study Approach. ORMR 2020; 9 (4) :117-137
URL: http://ormr.modares.ac.ir/article-28-38215-en.html

The purpose of this study was to identify and evaluate the current status of organizational barriers affecting the implementation of strategy in public universities. For that reason, a multi-study design was used by a combination of review scoping, a qualitative case study and a survey. At the first study, we used review scoping, and analyzed studies in strategy implementation. The studies were selected with purposeful sampling from the scientific databases. At the second study by using a qualitative case study, views of 15 managers of Shiraz University were considered through semi-structured interviews and then data were analyzed using thematic analysis technique. Likewise, at the third study and the evaluation section, the status of key barriers to effective strategy implementation in the top five universities in the country has been assessed by using a survey method. Findings of the study indicated that numerous organizational barriers including academic leadership, the nature of strategy, academic culture, financial resources, technology, communication, strategy monitoring, structure and human resources in the public universities that have affected Strategy Implementation. The results also revealed that Academic cultureat Tehran University and Shiraz University,structureat Amirkabir UniversityandSharif University,and human resourcesat Science and Technology University,were the most important barriers to strategy implementation.