This paper discusses planning practice from an intra-organizational perspective. Findings of a case study on the Planning Agency for the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Ja neiro, Brazil, covering the 1975-82 period, suggest that planners' rela tionships with higher-ranking offi cials of the planning agency were a crucial factor affecting professional performance. Effective planners were those able to carry out professional work in a fashion consistent with their goals. To do this, they had to devise appropriate strategies to ac quire influence over top officials. The majority of planners, however, failed to devise such strategies, due to their negative attitude toward politics at the level of the organization.
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