Strategic planning in an uncertain environment: The case of Ghana's University libraries

Abstract

Reports on a survey of the major stakeholders of five university libraries in Ghana, designed to determine the factors in the external environment that affect the development of strategic planning in Ghanaian university libraries. Economic and political factors are perceived to have had the most impact. Reasons for the poor performance of the Ghanaian economy in the last fifteen years include: inflation; currency depreciation; poor employee remuneration; resistance to educational reforms; and increase in educational enrolments.