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This article is based on a survey of chief corporate planners conducted in 1981. It updates selected data included in the authors' 1979 and 1980 surveys (see Planning Review, January 1980 and November 1980) and provides new data about additional aspects of planning. The survey was conceived and sponsored by Johnson, Smith & Knisely, Inc., executive search consultants. It was designed and conducted by Stuart Matlins Associates, Inc., management consultants. Copies of the full report are available for $50.00 from Johnson, Smith & Knisely, Inc., 275 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016.

In the summer of 1980, a survey of chief corporate planners was conducted in order to update data collected in 1979 (reported in the Fall 1980 issue of The Journal of Business Strategy) and to provide new data about additional aspects of the planning process.

Corporate managers have an increasing need for data on career paths, compensation, and staffing in corporation planning functions in order to better manage their own operations. At the same time, current and potential members of corporate planning staffs need similar information to better guide their careers and activities. This survey was conducted to meet an important part of the needs of both management and staff.

This article is based on a survey of chief corporate planners conducted in early 1979. The survey was conceived and sponsored by Johnson, Smith & Knisely, Inc., executive search consultants. It was designed and conducted by Stuart Matlins Associates, Inc., management consultants, New York. Copies of the full report are available for $20.00 from Johnson, Smith & Knisely, Inc., 275 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016.

In 1979, Johnson, Smith, & Knisely sponsored a major survey of career paths, compensation and staffing, among corporate planning functions. In working with clients to recruit planning executives and staff, we found that corporate managers had an increasing need for data on these issues in order to better manage their planning operations. At the same time, we found that current and potential members of corporate planning staffs needed similar information in order to better guide their careers and activities. The 1979 survey was conducted to meet the needs of both management and staff. This survey up‐dates selected data included in our 1979 report and provides new data about additional aspects of the planning process to help meet a continuing need for current information.

IN 1981 we began surveying U.S. companies in the $800 million to $20 billion annual sales range to obtain a sophisticated job description of the top corporate planning positions. The real aim of the survey was simple: to establish a role model for the corporate planner of the 1980s. To define this model, the survey sought to determine as precisely as possible:

The purpose of this paper is to analyze common emplotments of interpretations of the financial crisis of 2007‐2010.

The paper presents a text analysis.

The paper finds that the same “strong plots” are commonly used to explain financial crises to the general public.

The paper provides useful information on interpretations of financial crises.