The Economics and Sociology of Management Consulting
| Author | : Thomas Armbrüster |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2006-11-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521857154 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting
| Author | : Matthias Kipping |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 580 |
| Release | : 2012-03-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0191628085 |
Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business, and within other types of organization. The Oxford Handbook on Management Consulting is a comprehensive overview of thinking and research on management consultancy with contributions from leading international scholars. The first section provides an account of the historical developments in management consulting research, and how current thinking has evolved from prior work. The second section focuses on disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, their diversities, areas of synergy, and parallel concerns. The following sections examine consulting as a knowledge business, consultants and management fashion, and the relationship between management consultants and their clients. The Handbook concludes with an assessment of areas of future research and debate. By bringing together a wide range of research and thinking on management consulting across different disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual approaches, the Handbook provides a comprehensive understanding of both current thinking and future directions for research.
The Consulting Trap
| Author | : Chris Hurl |
| Publisher | : Fernwood Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1773636839 |
The Consulting Trap does a deep dive into how governments have become hooked on private consultancy firms with dire consequences for democratic decision-making, public accountability and accessible public services. Hurl and Werner contend that firms like McKinsey, Accenture, KPMG and Deloitte increasingly take responsibility for core public services, trapping governments in cycles of dependency. Through orchestrating tax avoidance for the wealthy while engineering austerity for the rest, these firms have created the foundations for the deepening privatization of the public services, further entrenching their power. Drawing on case studies from Canada and around the world, Hurl and Werner investigate how big consultancies leverage social networks, institutionalize relationships, mine and commodify data, and establish policy pipelines that facilitate the quick diffusion of ideas across jurisdictions. Drawing from real world examples, The Consulting Trap offers strategies for how these powerful firms can be resisted using people’s audits, public consultations, access to information requests, and social network analyses.
The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting
| Author | : Matthias Kipping |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 580 |
| Release | : 2012-03-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0191628093 |
Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business, and within other types of organization. The Oxford Handbook on Management Consulting is a comprehensive overview of thinking and research on management consultancy with contributions from leading international scholars. The first section provides an account of the historical developments in management consulting research, and how current thinking has evolved from prior work. The second section focuses on disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, their diversities, areas of synergy, and parallel concerns. The following sections examine consulting as a knowledge business, consultants and management fashion, and the relationship between management consultants and their clients. The Handbook concludes with an assessment of areas of future research and debate. By bringing together a wide range of research and thinking on management consulting across different disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual approaches, the Handbook provides a comprehensive understanding of both current thinking and future directions for research.
Management Consultancy
| Author | : Joe O'Mahoney |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2013-03-07 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0199645477 |
'Management Consultancy' provides a comprehensive introduction to the consulting industry. The text begins with the presentation of a theoretical underpinning, before outlining how to carry out management consultancy and providing guidance on entering the industry.
An Introduction to Management Consultancy
| Author | : Marc Baaij |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 601 |
| Release | : 2013-12-10 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1446296830 |
Whether you are looking to build on your management studies or experience of working in business, you are likely to have come across management consultancy and will need a clear and concise introduction to this area to help you understand its practices and techniques in order to hire and implement management consultancy in the future. This text provides you with these essentials for success in your studies and later industries when working with and not just for consultancy firms. The text is built around learning objectives to empower your understanding of the 'what', 'how', 'when' and 'why' at macro and micro levels of management consultancy and its stakeholders, and provides you with engaging real life examples and extra web materials for study. As well as full courses on management consultancy, this text will be invaluable to your management knowledge and skill-set across strategy, change, analytics, problem-solving, solution implementation and decision-making as applied by the world's top management consulting firms, such as McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company. Visit the companion website www.sagepub.co.uk/baaij Lecturer’s resources Lecturer’s guide Teaching notes per chapter Answer guidance to end-of-chapter questions in book Suggested discussion questions Suggested small group assignments Suggested small group field project Lecture slides Option 1: provide all figures of the book on PowerPoint slides Option 2: create complete PowerPoint presentations for each chapter Exercises Exam questions Discussion forum Student resources Templates for developing logical structures Web resources Consultancy publications Consultancy web site, career page Job application preparation services Consultancy institutions
Management Consultancy Insights and Real Consultancy Projects
| Author | : Graham Manville |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2017-10-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 131710207X |
The field of management consultancy research has grown rapidly in recent years. Fuelled by the drivers of complexity and uncertainty, a growing number of organizations – both profit and third sector alike – are looking at management consultancy to assist in their aims for development and change. Consultants have become a common feature in organizational change initiatives, involved in both providing advice and in implementing ideas and solutions. However, despite this growing recognition and influence, management consultancy is still often misunderstood or criticized for its lack of theoretical underpinning. The book seeks to address these issues by offering applied theoretical insights from academics that both teach and practice management consultancy. Written by recognized experts in their field, the contributors combine original insights with authoritative analysis. Uniquely, this book identifies emerging themes with critical discourse and provides rich empirical case study evidence to show the reader how management consultancy projects are implemented. Real-world international consultancy projects are featured as written up cases featuring organizations from multi-national corporations to the public sector. Written for graduate level managers or those who have practical leadership experience, this book will enable readers to apply management consultancy models beyond a classroom context
Client-Consultant Collaboration
| Author | : Anthony F. Buono |
| Publisher | : IAP |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2009-09-01 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1607522594 |
The tenth volume in the Research on Management Consulting series—Client–Consultant Collaboration: Coping with Complexity and Change—draws on papers presented at the Academy of Management’s Management Consulting Division International Conference on this theme in Copenhagen, Denmark in June 2007. The volume presents twelve chapters that explore a broad range of questions and concerns that illustrate the scope and complexity of the consultant–client relationship. The chapters illustrate the richness and excitement that takes place not only in research on consulting but also in its application as the various empirical analyses of consulting in practice portray.
Sociology and Economics for Engineers
| Author | : Premvir Kapoor |
| Publisher | : KHANNA PUBLISHING HOUSE |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9386173026 |
The book will help the students to understand variety of economics and sociological issues and concepts. It shall provide to them an insight and knowledge to understand the impact of developments in business and society. The book will meet the requirements of the engineers to evaluate the comparison of alternatives that involve spending money and their likely outcomes.
Organization and Management Problem Solving
| Author | : James T. Ziegenfuss |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780761919162 |
Based on a broad range of case studies, Organization and Management Problem Solving is an insightful text designed to improve the application of organization theory and systems thinking in teaching and practice. This book illustrates the five key themes in the nature of organization and managementa'technical, structural, psychosocial, managerial, and culturala'through the analysis of measured incidents tested by students. A clear theoretical framework supports the case studies, allowing the text to have practical relevance to contemporary settings and to be recognized as a model for describing, analyzing, and responding to organization and management problems. The model integrates the thinking of many writers on organization and problem solving including Ackoff, Blake, and Mouton; Schein, Kast, and Rosenweign; and Mitroff and Lippitt. The approach eliminates causal conditions and emphasizes responsive problem solving. Theory is applied and expanded as needed to a broader social context, engaging the reader in a thorough understanding of the nature and development of organization theory and problem solving. This book is relevant to consultants, academics, and professional managers in a number of settings (academic, military, business organizations, and research institutes) and disciplines (including development and change, management, human resources, social psychology, communication, sociology, and psychology).
