The Economics and Sociology of Management ConsultingCambridge University Press, 16 พ.ย. 2006 - 249 หน้า Management consultancy is a key sector in the economic change toward a service and knowledge economy. Originally published in 2006, this book explains the mechanisms of the management consulting market and the management of consulting firms from both economic and sociological perspectives. It also examines the strategies, marketing approaches, knowledge management and human resource management techniques of consulting firms. After outlining the relationships between transaction cost economics, signaling theory, embeddedness theory and sociological neoinstitutionalism, Thomas Armbrüster applies these theories to central questions such as: Why does the consulting sector exist and grow? Which institutions connect supply and demand? And which factors influence the relationship between clients and consultants? By applying both economic and sociological approaches, the book explains the general economic changes of the previous thirty years and sharpens the relationship between the academic disciplines. |
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Management consultancy viewed from economic | 1 |
Why do consulting firms exist and grow? The economics | 41 |
How do supply and demand meet? Competition and | 68 |
Who is more powerful? Consulting influence and client | 86 |
19702005 | 93 |
Substitutes or supplements? Internal versus external | 101 |
Diversified services or niche focus? Strategies | 119 |
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Accenture accounting firms advice analysis approach Armbrüster asset specificity assumptions behavior chapter client firms cluster competence centers competition consulting market consulting quality consulting sector consulting services context contract cooperation corporate critical rationalism decisions Direct marketers document efficient embeddedness theory emerges employees example female consultants functions game theory Gemünden graduates growth hire human resource individual industry information asymmetry innovation institutionalized institutions interaction internal consultancy investments involves Journal knowledge economy knowledge management system management consulting market mechanisms McKinsey neoinstitutional networked reputation organizational outlined outsourcing particular partners performance personnel selection perspective potential production public reputation Pudack rationality relationship render represent result segment selection procedure service firms Services Marketing signaling theory social sociological neoinstitutionalism solution statistical discrimination strategy and organization strategy consulting firms structure tacit knowledge tasks tion top-tier consulting firms topics transaction cost economics typically uncertainty University Press word-of-mouth effects