How Strategic Issues Emerge in Organizution’s Key Decision Makers’ Agenda

Abstract

This research is conducted in response to this question that why only some particular issues are taken into consideration in organizations, or what process makes senior managers to look at cases around them as strategic ones. In other words, in this article, authors made effort to explore the process of emergence of strategic issues on the agenda of the organization. In order to design this model, in-depth interviews have taken place with experts in banking industry. In addition, qualitative data analysis and designing conceptual model have been done based on Grounded Theory foundations. Results from qualitative data analysis show that how potentially important issues will be received the meaning of strategic for senior executives, and how they enter to the strategic agenda of organization.

Keywords

• strategic issues
• strategic agenda
• grounded theory methodology