10 years within nonprofit mental health services organizations to achieve the following
research aims:
Aim 1: To describe the organizations’ strategic positions within their external
environmental context.
Aim 2: To describe the organizations’ strategy formation processes within their
internal organizational contexts.
Aim 3: To explore whether and how the organizations’ external environmental
context and strategy formation processes influence resulting intended strategies.
Aim 4: To describe the organizations’ strategy implementation processes relative
to the intended strategies within their internal organizational contexts.
Aim 5: To clarify causal mechanisms and explore patterns of how strategy
implementation mediates the relationship between strategy formation and organizational
performance.