Management Consulting : Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry

Matthias Kipping

ISBN 10: 0199242852 / ISBN 13: 9780199242856

Published by Oxford University Press (UK) Aug 2002, 2002

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Neuware - This book provides insight and concrete knowledge and an international perspective into the growing field of Consulting. Each chapter is based on original research and offers a wide variety of real-life situations from different countries, consulting firms and client corporations. Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry, is divided into three distinctive parts: 'Historical Perspectives on the Consulting Industry', 'Organizational Perspectives on the Consultancy Firm', and Relationship Perspectives on the Consultancy Project'. This volume, with the help of an exceptional team of contributors distinguishes and examines consulting at three levels of analysis: industry, organization and project.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Management Consulting : Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK) Aug 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199242852
• ISBN 13: 9780199242856
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

This volume examines different aspect of management consulting in an innovative and comprehensive way.

About the Author

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).