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selected, and retained, according to organizing recipes, during the process through
which they make sense of what is going on and what must be done. As Weick (1979)
says, recipes are “the means to generate structures that have the characteristics you want.
Adapted to organizing, the question becomes: given our need for a sensible enacted
environment, how do we produce it?” (pp. 46– 47).
This quest for recipes is promulgated through multiple resources. Numerous textbooks
and trade books are available about how to write specic forms of public relations
discourse. In comparison, far less work has been published about strategy and strategic
planning specically for public relations, but examples ...