Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry

by Matthias Kipping (Editor), Lars Engwall (Editor)

Overview

This book provides insight and concrete knowledge and an international perspective into the growing field of Consulting. Each chapter is based on original research and offers a wide variety of real-life situations from different countries, consulting firms and client corporations. Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry, is divided into three distinctive parts: "Historical Perspectives on the Consulting Industry', 'Organizational Perspectives on the Consultancy Firm', and Relationship Perspectives on the Consultancy Project'. This volume, with the help of an exceptional team of contributors distinguishes and examines consulting at three levels of analysis: industry, organization and project.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199242856
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/29/2002
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Matthias Kipping: Lecturer (1994-8), then (1998-) Reader in European Management at the School of Business, The University of Reading; Director of the Centre for International Business History (CIBH) at Reading (1998-2001); Visiting positions held at the École des Hautes Études Sociales in Paris (1998), the École Supérieure Universitaire de Gestion at the University of Toulouse (2000) and the Institute of Innovation Research at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (2000). Lars Engwall: Visiting Scholar, the Graduate School of Business Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of California at Berkeley, CA (1970-1); Associate Professor (1972-81) and Professor (1981-) of Business Administration, Uppsala University; Professor of Management, the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels (1977-8); Directeur de Recherche, Centre de Recherche en Gestion, École Polytechnique, Paris (Spring Semester 1995).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Management Consulting as a Knowledge Industry, Lars Engwell and Matthias KippingPart I. Historical Perspectives on the Consulting Industry2. The Acquisition of Symbolic Capital by Consultants: The French Case, Odile Henry3. The Changing Relationship Between Management Consulting and Academia: Evidence from Sweden, Lars Engwall, Staffan Furusten, and Eva Wallerstedt4. Management Consultancies in the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s: Between Systemic Context and External Influences, Luchien Karsten and Kees van Veen5. The Rise and Fall of a Local Version of Management Consulting in Finland, Antti Ainamo and Janne TienariPart II. Organizational Perspectives on the Consultancy Firm6. The Internal Creation of Consulting Knowledge: A Question of Structuring Experience, Andreas Werr7. Knowledge Management at Country Level: A Large Consulting Firm in Italy, Cristina Crucini8. Collaborative Relationships in the Creation and Fashioning of Management Ideas: Gurus, Editors, and Managers, Timothy Clark and David Greatbatch9. Consultancies as Actors in Knowledge Arenas: Evidence from Germany, Michael FaustPart III. Relationship Perspectives on the Consultancy Project10. Managers as Marionettes? Using Fashion Theories to Explain the Success of Consultancies, Alfred Kieser11. Promoting Demand, Gaining Legitimacy, and Broadening Expertise: The Evolution of Consultancy-Client Relationships in Australia, Christopher Wright12. The Burden of Otherness: Limits of Consultancy Interventions in Historical Case Studies, Matthias Kipping and Thomas Armbruster12. Managers and Consultants as Embedded Actors: Evidence from Norway, Hallgeir Gammelsaeter

Editorial Reviews

"Examining the generation, management, and validation of knowledge by consultancies and managerial gurus, this collection shows that these activities are influenced not only by the firms' own characteristics of size, structure and national origin, but also by national and cultural factors."—Business Horizons

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