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Andrew Sturdy - Management as Consultancy: Neo-bureaucracy and the Consultant Manager - 9781107020962 - V9781107020962
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Management as Consultancy: Neo-bureaucracy and the Consultant Manager

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Description for Management as Consultancy: Neo-bureaucracy and the Consultant Manager Hardcover. .
The nature of management is changing: managers are becoming more like consultants, focusing on projects, functional integration, change and 'clients'. This timely book is based on a large-scale, international study of new management practices and examines the emergence of consultant managers. It breaks new ground in our understanding of this hybrid role, uncovering working practices, identities and occupational dynamics, to shed light on both management and consultancy. It unpacks the changing relationship between external consultants and management to reveal important implications for the future of consultancy. Both private and public sectors are covered, with a focus on managers in large ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107020962
SKU
V9781107020962
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Andrew Sturdy
Andrew Sturdy is Professor of Management at the University of Bristol. His research interests focus mainly on issues of power and identity in the production and use of management ideas, especially in relation to management consultancy and organisational change. He has advised on consultancy to the UK Management Consultancies Association (MCA), Institute of Consulting, the UK National Audit Office and ... Read more

Reviews for Management as Consultancy: Neo-bureaucracy and the Consultant Manager
'The central proposition of this book is highly intriguing and captured my attention immediately. The authors argue convincingly that we need to re-think our assumptions about what management is and the role of management consultants as external experts doing different things to managers. It will have a very substantial impact on academic debate and, perhaps more importantly, on how practicing ... Read more

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