This paper reviews the past 28 years of scholarship on management consulting to
synthesize the field and establish more broadly its contribution to management research …

In this essay we describe the growing importance of professions and the organizations in
which they work, and we trace some trends in relevant scholarly research on this topic. We …

IMPACT Efforts to improve the governance of external management consulting have a mixed
record. Attention has focused on either procurement (and insourcing) and/or raising …

The nature and extent of changes in management remain subject to debate, especially
around the notion of post-bureaucracy. Most research concedes that there has been some …

The concept of 'instrument constituencies' has recently emerged in policy research to reflect
actors and practices focused primarily on articulating and promoting policy solutions. A …

This paper examines the nature of the contemporary multinational corporation (MNC)
through a study of the use of knowledge management systems (KMS) in four major …

Scholars have observed workers combining multiple work roles to earn a living to cope with
the vicissitudes of the labor market. In studies of creative labor markets, this trend of workers …

While recent debates about the professions have noted the pervasive influence of
organizations, less is known about how this plays out at the macro or occupational level. In …

The academic literature on management consulting raises many questions about the ethics
of management consulting. The uncertain, emergent, and often socially constructed nature …

From a review of secondary sources, this chapter briefly outlines the main critiques of the
use of external commercial advice through consultancy—adverse effects on democracy …