Management Consulting Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry [Paperback]

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.ManagementConsulting: 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.

1. Introduction: Management Consulting as a Knowledge Industry,Lars Engwell and Matthias Kipping
Part I. Historical Perspectives on the Consulting Industry
2. The Acquisition of Symbolic Capital by Consultants: The French Case,Odile Henry
3. The Changing Relationship Between Management Consulting and Academia: Evidence from Sweden,Lars Engwall, Staffan Furusten, and Eva Wallerstedt
4. Management Consultancies in the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s: Between Systemic Context and External Influences,Luchien Karsten and Kees van Veen
5. The Rise and Fall of a Local Version of Management Consulting in Finland,Antti Ainamo and Janne Tienari
Part II. Organizational Perspectives on the Consultancy Firm
6. The Internal Creation of Consulting Knowledge: A Question of Structuring Experience,Andreas Werr
7. Knowledge Management at Country Level: A Large Consulting Firm in Italy,Cristina Crucini
8. Collaborative Relationships in the Creation and Fashioning of Management Ideas: Gurus, Editors, and Managers,Timothy Clark and David Greatbatch
9. Consultancies as Actors in Knowledge Arenas: Evidence from Gerl3Ã