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Author:   Matthias Kipping (, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) ,  Lars Engwall (, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780199267118

ISBN 10:   0199267111
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   19 June 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Lars Engwall and Matthias Kipping: Introduction Part I: Historical Perspectives on the Consulting Industry 1: Odile Henry: The Acquisition of Symbolic Capital by Consultants: The French Case 2: Lars Engwall, Staffan Furusten, and Eva Wallerstedt: The Changing Relationship Between Management Consulting and Academia: Evidence from Sweden 3: Luchien Karsten and Kees van Veen: Management Consultancies in the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s: Between Systemic Context and External Influences 4: Antti Ainamo and Janne Tienari: The Rise and Fall of a Local Version of Management Consulting in Finland Part II: Organizational Perspectives on the Consultancy Firm 5: Andreas Werr: The Internal Creation of Consulting Knowledge: A Question of Structuring Experience 6: Cristina Crucini: Knowledge Management at Country Level: A Large Consulting Firm in Italy 7: Timothy Clark and David Greatbatch: Collaborative Relationships in the Creation and Fashioning of Management Ideas: Gurus, Editors, and Managers 8: Michael Faust: Consultancies as Actors in Knowledge Arenas: Evidence from Germany Part III: Relationship Perspectives on the Consultancy Project 9: Alfred Kieser: Managers as Marionettes? Using Fashion Theories to Explain the Success of Consultancies 10: Christopher Wright: Promoting Demand, Gaining Legitimacy, and Broadening Expertise: The Evolution of Consultancy-Client Relationships in Australia 11: Matthias Kipping and Thomas Armbruster: The Burden of Otherness: Limits of Consultancy Interventions in Historical Case Studies 12: Hallgeir Gammelsaeter: Managers and Consultants as Embedded Actors: Evidence from Norway

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This book makes an excellent contribution to the consultancy literature, filling an important gap and providing some important insights for strategy and organizational change researchers examining the role and contribution of external actors. organization

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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).

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