In this paper we use discourse analysis to investigate the process of institutionalization and change of strategic planning practices over four decades. We propose a model that connects the production and consumption of text to the process of institutionalization and its subsequent expression in...

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 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 takes the long view on the development of strategy as a profession, from the 1950s to today. We identify strategy as a structurally precarious profession, subject to cyclical demand and shifts in organizational power. This precariousness has increased with the secular shift towards...

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,...

Research summary: We develop and test a set of hypotheses on investors' reactions to a specific form of impression management, public presentations of overall strategy by Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). Contrary to expectations from a “cheap talk” perspective, we suggest that such strategy...