ABSTRACT
Planning is fundamental to all organizations, receiving widespread research attention in numerous disciplines. Oddly enough, industrial relations scholars have virtually ignored union planning. The little available research centers on the popular topic of strategic planning, while other forms of union planning have been submerged. This may be a result of either business policy frameworks guiding much of the research, or the introduction of the strategic choice framework by Kochan, McKersie and Cappelli (1984). We argue that researchers must approach union planning from a union context. To facilitate a systematic investigation of union planning, we propose a research framework and articulate future research directions.
