Strategic planning in media organizations of Iran


Ali Akbar Farhangi, Mohammad Soltani Far, Ali Asghar Mahaki and Abolfazl Danaei


Organizations with activities of all kinds are influenced by environmental conditions, and external environment is in fact the beginning point of the strategy. Strategic management is an approach resulting from fast changing age and can consider it as a view and a technique for flexible planning to fast changes, and balanced score card is regarded as one of the strong instruments in this zone. Balanced score card can truly plays an important role in all stages of strategic management and the efficiency of this model is considerably regarded in management performance evaluation in different organizations. However, strong instrument such as balance score card is hardly used because of long term dominance of political approaches in the management of Iran media organizations. This paper conceptualizes administrational trend of strategic planning by implementing balanced score card and we draw strategy map and determine performance indexes in a written media organization (Hamshahri Newspaper).


DOI: j.msl.2012.01.008

Keywords: Strategic management ,Balanced score card ,Media organizations ,Hamshahri newspaper ,Triangular Fuzzy DEMATEL

How to cite this paper:

Farhangi, A., Far, M., Mahaki, A & Danaei, A. (2012). Strategic planning in media organizations of Iran.Management Science Letters -, 2(2), 477-496-.


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