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Management Consultancy: Boundaries and Knowledge in Action
Andrew Sturdy
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Description for Management Consultancy: Boundaries and Knowledge in Action
Hardback. Management consultants are typically seen as key mediators in the flow of management ideas. And yet little is known about exactly what happens when they work together with clients, behind closed doors in consulting projects. Do they really innovate or simply legitimate existing knowledge? This book offers a 'fly on the wall' view. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: KJMV3; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 13. Weight in Grams: 484. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear in good dustwrapper
Management consultants are typically seen as key mediators in the flow of management ideas. And yet little is known about exactly what happens when they work together with clients, behind closed doors in consulting projects. Do they really innovate or simply legitimate existing knowledge? This book presents research from a three year long 'fly-on-the-wall study' of consulting projects and challenges our taken for granted view of consultancy. It draws on and integrates theories of knowledge and social boundaries to reveal a picture of complex and shifting insider-outsider relationships. Here, the outsider or expert status of consultants in relation ... Read more
Management consultants are typically seen as key mediators in the flow of management ideas. And yet little is known about exactly what happens when they work together with clients, behind closed doors in consulting projects. Do they really innovate or simply legitimate existing knowledge? This book presents research from a three year long 'fly-on-the-wall study' of consulting projects and challenges our taken for granted view of consultancy. It draws on and integrates theories of knowledge and social boundaries to reveal a picture of complex and shifting insider-outsider relationships. Here, the outsider or expert status of consultants in relation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199212644
SKU
KSS0008655
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Andrew Sturdy
Andrew Sturdy is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. His research is focused on the global and local flow of management ideas and is widely cited in academic and popular media. In addition to his research with diverse client and consulting organisations, he advises various government agencies on the use of management consultancy. He ... Read more
Reviews for Management Consultancy: Boundaries and Knowledge in Action
This book adds a great deal to the study of consulting. It makes consistent and strong arguments, backed up by a solid empirical base, for a process-based approach to consulting work and to boundaries and knowledge flow within it.
Management Learning
An important contribution to the practice and research of consulting. There are rich descriptions, a framework that ... Read more
Management Learning
An important contribution to the practice and research of consulting. There are rich descriptions, a framework that ... Read more