“…Forman and Argenti (2005) find that the alignment between the corporate communication function and the strategic implementation process was particularly visible in those companies that were going through fundamental strategic change: "All of the firms studied were involved in significant efforts in internal communications and felt that IT was central to the success of the function, particularly in terms of implementing strategy and building reputation" (Forman and Argenti, 2005). Nutt (1986Nutt ( , 1987Nutt ( , 1989, Bourgeois & Brodwin (1984), Lehner (2004), Sashittal & Wilemon (1996), Akan & Allen & Helms & Spralls (2006) research the effects of implementation tactics on strategy implementation. Nutt (1986) identified four types of implementation tactics used by managers in making planned changes by profiling 91 case studies: intervention, participation, persuasion, and edict.…”