Critical Consulting: New Perspectives on the Management Advice Industry - Hardcover
The critical analysis presented here evaluates what management consultants offer as well as analysing the emergence of their industry as a contemporary social phenomenon. * Presents the latest research from the most influential researchers in the field. * Takes an inter--disciplinary approach, chapters analyse critical theory, organizational behaviour, sociology, psychology, actor--network theory and narrative analysis. * Provides the first critical evaluation of the different actors and activities that comprise the management advice sector.
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"...an important and theoretically innovative book highlighting the power games and discursive strategies that consutlants used to legitimise their knowledge claimes". Denis Saint-Martin, Universite de Montreal
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"This book represents an admirable resource for learning about current consulting practices, about their historical roots, and their underlying assumptions. The case studies are rich with concrete illustrations and informed by sound scholarly research." Chris Argyris, Harvard Business School
"Management Consultants are unloved - perhaps even by their own mothers - and they are misunderstood. This splendid volume tackles the latter problem with considerable success; now we understand why management consultants are unloved." Stuart Macdonald, University of Sheffield
"With contributions from the leading researchers in the area, this book provides fresh insights into the growth of the management advice industry and a valuable addition to the critical literature in this area". Dr Christopher Wright, University of New South Wales
"This book is a landmark that will set the parameters for future thinking about the role of consultants." Professor Stephen Hill, London School of Economics
This timely volume provides innovative perspectives on the management advice industry from leading contributors in critical theory, organizational behaviour, sociology, psychology, actor-network theory and narrative analysis. It addresses such fundamental questions as:
- What is management knowledge?
- How is it created and sold?
- What is the role of consultants, gurus, academics in this process?
- Does the management advice industry add value?
- What is the nature of the client-consultant relationship?
The development of interest in the management advice industry, both within the business press and the social sciences, reflects the need to answer these questions. The critical analysis presented here evaluates what management consultants offer as well as investigating the emergence of their industry as a contemporary social phenomenon.
This volume provides the first critical evaluation of the different actors and activities that comprise the management advice sector, and will be invaluable both to those teaching courses in consultancy and to analysts who are trying to make sense of the explosion in the management knowledge industry.
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- PublisherWiley-Blackwell
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 063121819X
- ISBN 13 9780631218197
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages296
- EditorClark Timothy, Fincham Robin
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