Identification and Prioritization of Key Obstacles to Strategy Execution in Cultural Organizations

The purpose of this study is to identify and prioritize key barriers to strategy implementation in cultural organizations. The method of this study was mixed (qualitative and quantitative). The statistical population of this study was the experts of small scale cultural and academic organizations in Tehran. The sample size in the qualitative section consisted of 5 senior managers, middle managers, strategic advisors, and founders of small-scale cultural organizations selected through a combination of available sampling and snowball technique. In the quantitative section, five senior managers, middle managers, strategic advisors, and founders of small-scale cultural organizations and academic experts were selected through purposive sampling. The content analysis was used to analyze the information in the qualitative part and hierarchical-analytic analysis in the quantitative part. Based on the results of qualitative and quantitative findings, 12 key barriers to strategy implementation in cultural organizations were identified and prioritized in order of priority: weakness in managerial management, lack of managerial commitment in strategy implementation, stakeholder pressure and sponsors, inadequate expertise. Forces, problems with the culture of human resources, weaknesses in formulating and revising strategies, inadequate organizational structure, weaknesses in training forces, believing in the necessity of scientific activities, weaknesses in accurate indicators of cultural activity evaluation, factors related to employment and occupation, weaknesses In the rules and instructions Enterprise.