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...
Fifty years on from the Marshall Plan, this volume describes the influence of the US management model on Europe after 1945. It examines institutions assisting in American efforts at a national and international level and analyzes in detail the reaction to the US productivity drive in a wide range of European companies, industries and countries.
Fifty years on from the Marshall Plan, this volume describes the influence of the US management model on Europe after 1945. It examines institutions a...
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,...
Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business, and within other types of organization. The Oxford Handbook o...
This book examines the mechanisms and channels through which American managerial know-how and US management models were transferred to Europe after 1945, as well as the actual influence on European industries, companies and regions in the 1950s and 1960s. It explores the role of the European Productivity Agency, business leaders, US multinationals, regional networks and institutions, as well as the actual transfer process and potential political, cultural and institutional barriers. The final section contains the cases of three European companies which adopted American Management methods to a...
This book examines the mechanisms and channels through which American managerial know-how and US management models were transferred to Europe after 19...
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...
This edited volume examines the American influence on West German and Japanese industry from the 1950s to the 1970s, providing a valuable contribution to the debate on 'Americanization' from a historical and comparative perspective. Individual contributions provide an in-depth analysis of the adoption and modification of management and technological issues from the US in West Germany and Japan at the micro-economic level.
This edited volume examines the American influence on West German and Japanese industry from the 1950s to the 1970s, providing a valuable contribution...
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 ...
Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and lifting an increasing part of humanity out of poverty and subsistence. But its effects, and hence its future, have come increasingly under question: Is capitalism still improving the wealth and well-being for the many? Or, has it become destructive for the economy, where long-term value creation is being sacrificed to the pressures of short-termism; for society, where the gap between rich and poor has increased and opportunities to lift oneself...
Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and li...
