This paper considers the impact of companies' external communications about strategy on their reputations. Such strategy communications can take many forms, including material in companies' own annual reports and the media, and the impact may be felt in various ways, including consumer loyalty...

This paper traces the evolution of strategic planning practice through a content analysis of advertisements for strategic planning jobs in the New York Times from 1960 to 2003. We address two issues. First, responding to prominent criticisms of analytical approaches to strategic planning, we...

This paper presents an explorative study, drawing on the existing literature on change management and Strategic Issue Management in order to propose key types of activity or practice involved in Strategic Issue Sustaining. To do this, we follow a practice perspective (Jarzabkowski, 2003;...

Our aim is to establish the importance, and explore the nature of, Strategic Issue Sustaining: the process of ensuring that strategic issues are adequately addressed and sustained on the boardroom agenda over significant periods of time. At the same time, we seek to outline the senior management...

This paper investigates the changing job characteristics of strategic planners in the face of long-run increases in environmental turbulence since the 1960s.We build on contingency theory to examine how growing turbulence may have impacted three aspects of strategic planner jobs: temporal range,...