Issues Management: Corporate Fad or Corporate Function?

Johnson Jon , “Issues Management—What are the Issues?” Business Quarterly, 48 (Fall 1983): 22.

See Buchholz R. A. , Business Enviornment and Public Policy (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982); Wartick S. L. Cochran P. L. , “The Evolution of the Corporate Social Performance Model,” Academy of Management Review, 19 (October 1985): 758–769; and Ansoff I. , “Strategic Issue Management,” Strategic Management Journal, 1 (April 1980): 113–148.

Buchholz , op. cit., p. 463.

Chase W. H. , “No Matter How Well Packaged, Corporate Fads Fade Fast,” Wall Street Journal, November 12, 1984, p. 28.

“Issues Management: Preparing for Social Change,” Chemical Week, October 28, 1981, pp. 48–49.

Chase W. H. , Issues Management: Origins of the Future (Stamford, CT: Issue Action Publications, 1984).

Gottschalk Earl , “Firms Hiring New Type of Manager to Study Issues, Emerging Trends,” Wall Street Journal, June 10, 1982, pp. 33.

Brown James K. , Guidelines for Managing Corporate Issues Programs (New York, NY: Conference Board, 1981).

Brown James K. , This Business of Issues: Coping with the Company's Environments (New York, NY: Conference Board, 1979); and The Fundamentals of Issues Management (Washington, D.C.: The Public Affairs Council, 1978).

Brown , Guidelines, op. cit., p. 33.

Johnson , op. cit., p. 4.

Ibid, p. 28.

Ehling W. P. Heese M. B. , “Use of Issues Management in Public Relations,” Public Relations Review, 9 (Summer 1983): 18–35.

The major academic interest in IM can be found in the strategic management and business and society areas (see footnote number 2). Also, see Arcelus F. J. Schaefer N. V. , “Social Demands as Strategic Issues: Some Conceptual Problems,” Strategic Management Journal, 3 (October 1982): 347–357; Kiesler S. Sproul L. , “Managerial Response to Changing Environments: Perspectives on Problem Sensing from Social Cognition,” Administrative Science Quarterly, 27 (December 1982): 548–570; Dutton J. E. Fahey L. Narayanan V. K. , “Toward Understanding Strategic Issues Diagnosis,” Strategic Management Journal, 4 (October 1983): 307–323; Fleming J. E. , “Public Issues Scanning,” in Preston L. E. , ed., Research in Corporate Social Performance (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1981), pp. 155–174; Tombari H. A. , Business and Society (New York, NY: The Dryden Press, 1984).

Arrington C. B. Sawaya R. N. , “Issues Management and Corporate Strategey,” California Management Review, XXVI (Summer 1984): 148–160.

Nolan J. T. , “Political Surfing When Issues Break,” Harvard Business Review, 85 (January/February 1985): 72–81.

Chase , Issues Management: Origins of the Future, op. cit.

Buchholz , op. cit.