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...
This book provides insight and concrete knowledge and an international perspective into the growing field of Consulting. Each chapter is based on orig...
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...
This book provides insight and concrete knowledge and an international perspective into the growing field of Consulting. Each chapter is based on orig...
While research evaluation has achieved particular significance in the United Kingdom, there is growing interest and activity in this area among Scandanavian countries. Funded by the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, this book is a product of the increasing recognition of the importance of evaluations. The principal aim of Economics of Sweden is to locate Swedish economic research in an international setting and from there, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of Swedish economics. Throughout, an effort has been made to relate to recent work on evaluation...
While research evaluation has achieved particular significance in the United Kingdom, there is growing interest and activity in this area among Scanda...
Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of management practice has allowed for a widespread diffusion of management ideas across sectors and continents. This book provides an up-to-date summary of the development, refinement, and diffusion of managerial ideas, adding detail and explanation to commonly held conceptions about the explosion of management knowledge. The contributors contend that management ideas do not flow automatically but are actively shaped and transformed by knowledge carriers--business...
Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of management practice ha...
Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of management practice has allowed for a widespread diffusion of management ideas across sectors and continents. This book provides an up-to-date summary of the development, refinement, and diffusion of managerial ideas, adding detail and explanation to commonly held conceptions about the explosion of management knowledge.
The contributors contend that management ideas do not flow automatically but are actively shaped and transformed by knowledge...
Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of management practice...
The governance of the public sciences has profoundly changed since the Second World War, especially with regard to funding structures, the autonomy, and accountability of public research organizations and universities, and the extent to which research is steered towards societal usefulness. Going beyond previous analyses of these changes in science studies, science policy, and higher education studies, this book presents and applies a novel approach that provides an integrated assessment of changes in public science systems and their impact on scientific innovation. Its basic assumptions...
The governance of the public sciences has profoundly changed since the Second World War, especially with regard to funding structures, the autonomy, a...
Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and households to its current ubiquity, focusing in particular on the role of business schools, consultants, and business media in this process.
How did an entire industry develop around business schools, consultants, and business media who are now widely considered "the" authorities regarding best management practice? This book shows how these actors on their own and in interaction
became taken-for-granted and gained such definitional power over...
Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and households to its cu...
Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and households to its current ubiquity, focusing in particular on the role of business schools, consultants, and business media in this process.
How did an entire industry develop around business schools, consultants, and business media who are now widely considered the authorities regarding best management practice? This book shows how these actors - on their own and in interaction -
became taken-for-granted and...
Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and households ...
