The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting

Edited by Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark

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Comprehensive review of state-of-the art thinking on management consultancy
Contributions from leading international scholars in the field
Examines main theoretical approaches and key empirical themes
Interdisciplinary approach spanning organization, management studies, economics, and sociology

The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting

Edited by Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark

Description

Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business, and within other types of organization. The Oxford Handbook on Management Consulting is a comprehensive overview of eminent thinking and research on management consultancy with contributions from leading international scholars.

The first section provides an account of the historical developments in management consultancy research, and how current thinking has evolved from prior work. The second section focuses on disciplinary and theoretical perspectives on management consulting, their diversities, areas of synergy, and parallel concerns. The following sections examine consulting as a knowledge business; the consultants in management fashion; and the relationship between management consultants and their clients. The Handbook concludes with an assessment of areas of future research and debate.

By bringing together a wide range of research and thinking on management consultancy across different disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual approaches, the Handbook provides a comprehensive understanding of both current thinking and future directions for research.

The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting

Edited by Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark

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1. Introduction, Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark
Section 1: Historical Development of Management Consulting
2. The Engineering Origins of the Consulting Industry and their Long Shadow, Christopher Wright and Matthias Kipping
3. Human Relations and Management Consulting: Elton Mayo and Eric Trist, Richard C. S. Trahair and Kyle Bruce
4. Institutional Change and the Growth of Strategy Consulting in the United States, Robert David
5. Cuckoo in the Nest? The Rise of Management Consulting in Large Accounting Firms?, Megan S. McDougald and Royston Greenwood
6. IT Consulting and Outsourcing Firms: Evolution, Business Models and Future Prospects, Kerim Galal, Ansgar Richter, and Vera Wendlandt
Section 2: Disciplinary and Theoretical Perspectives
7. Sociological Perspectives on Management Consultancy, Michael Faust
8. Consultants in Context: Global Dominance, Societal Effect and the Capitalist System, Matthias Kipping and Christopher Wright
9. Professions and Professionalism in Management Consulting, Ian Kirkpatrick, Daniel Muzio and Stephen Ackroyd
10. Economic Approaches to Consulting, Nicole Saam
11. The Geographies of Management Consultancy Firms, James Faulconbridge and Andrew Jones
Section 3: Consulting as a Knowledge Business
12. Knowledge Management and Management Consulting, Andreas Werr
13. Consultants and Organization Concepts, Stefan Heusinkveld and Jos Benders
14. Structuring Consulting Firms, Timothy Morris, Heidi Gardner and Anand Narasimhan
15. Managing Consultants: Control and Identity, Mats Alvesson
Section 4: Consultants and Management Fashions
16. Consultants in the Management Fashion Arena, Nicole Jung and Alfred Kieser
17. Management Gurus as Celebrity Consultants, Timothy Clark, Pojanath Bhatanacharoen and David Greatbatch
18. Consultants, Business Schools and the Media, Lars Engwall
Section 5: Consultants and their Clients
19. The Nature of Client-Consultant Interaction, Natalia Nikolova and Timothy Devinney
20. The Client in the Client-Consultant Relationship, Robin Fincham
21. Consultants and Clients from Constructivist Perspectives, Barbara Czarniawska and Carmelo Mazza
22. Management Consultants and Governments, Denis Saint-Martin
Section 6: New Avenues for Research
22. The Future Research Agenda, Andrew Sturdy
23. Consulting and Ethics, R. Edward Freeman and Dean Krehmeyer
24. Gender in Consulting: A Review and Research Agenda, Elisabeth Kelan
25. Management Consulting in Developing and Emerging Economies: Toward a Post-colonial Perspective, Michal Frenkel and Yehouda Shenhav

The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting

Edited by Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark

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Author Information

Matthias Kipping is Professor of Strategic Management and Chair in Business History at the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Munich and additional degrees in France and the United States and held previous appointments in the United Kingdom and Spain. He has published widely on management consultancy and its evolution, and co-edited with Lars Engwall a volume on Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry (OUP, 2002)..

Timothy Clark is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Durham Business School, Durham University. He has conducted a series of research projects into different aspects of the work of management consultants which have resulted in influential publications in the area including Managing Consultants (Open University Press, 1995) and Critical Consulting: New Perspectives on the Management Advice Industry (2002, Blackwell, with R. Fincham).

Contributors:

Mats Alvesson, Professor of Business Administration, the University of Lund, Sweden and University of Queensland Business School, Australia, Honorary Professor, University of St. Andrews, and Visiting Professor, Exeter University.
N. Anand, Professor of Organizational Behavior, IMD, Lausanne.
Pojanath Bhatanacharoen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Durham University.
Jos Benders, Chair of Organization Concepts, Tilburg University, and Guest Professor, the Centre for Sociological Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Kyle Bruce, Senior Lecturer, the Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Australia.
Timothy Clark, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Durham Business School, Durham University.
Barbara Czarniawska, Professor of Management Studies, GRI, School of Business, Economics, and Law, the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Robert J. David, Associate Professor of Strategy & Organization and Director of the Centre for Strategy Studies in Organization, the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University.
Lars Engwall, Professor of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden.
James Faulconbridge, Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography, Lancaster University, UK.
Robin Fincham, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Stirling Management School, Stirling University, UK.
R. Edward Freeman, University Professor, the University of Virginia, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, the Darden School, and Academic Director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics.
Michal Frenkel, Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Organization Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Kerim Galal , Executive Assistant to the CEO, DEKRA SE.
Heidi K. Gardner, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School.
David Greatbatch, Visiting Professor, Durham Business School, Durham University.
Royston Greenwood, the TELUS Professor of Strategic Management, the University of Alberta, and Visiting Professor, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Andrew Jones, Professor of Economic Geography, Department of Geography, Environment, and Development Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London.
Stefan Heusinkveld, Assistant Professor, the Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Elisabeth Kelan, Lecturer, the Department of Management, King's College London.
Alfred Kieser, Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior, Mannheim University.
Matthias Kipping, Professor of Strategic Management and Chair in Business History, the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Ian Kirkpatrick, Professor in Work and Organisation, Leeds University Business School.
Dean W. Krehmeyer, Executive Director, the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics.
Nicole Jung, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Carmelo Mazza, Affiliate Professor, IE Business School, Madrid
Tim Morris, Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Daniel Muzio, Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations, Leeds University Business School, and Visiting Professor, Luiss, Rome.
Ansgar Richter, Professor of Strategy and Organisation, EBS Business School, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Nicole J. Saam, Professor of Sociology, Augsburg University.
Yehouda Shenhav, Professor of Sociology, Tel-Aviv University.
Andrew Sturdy, Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Head of the Department of Management, the University of Bristol.
Richard Trahair, previously La Trobe University
Vera Wendlandt, doctoral candidate
Andreas Werr, Associate Professor, the Stockholm School of Economics, and Head of the Center for People and Organization.
Christopher Wright, Professor of Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney.