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List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Management Consulting as a Knowledge Industry

Lars Engwall

Matthias Kipping

Part I. Historical Perspectives on the Consulting Industry

The Acquisition of Symbolic Capital by Consultants: The French Case

Odile Henry

The Changing Relationship between Management Consulting and Academia: Evidence from Sweden

Lars Engwall

Staffan Furusten

Eva Wallerstedt

Management Consultancies in the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s: Between Systemic Context and External Influences

Luchien Karsten

Kees van Veen

The Rise and Fall of a Local Version of Management Consulting in Finland

Antti Ainamo

Janne Tienari

Part II. Organizational Perspectives on the Consultancy Firm

The Internal Creation of Consulting Knowledge: A Question of Structuring Experience

Andreas Werr

Knowledge Management at the Country Level: A Large Consulting Firm in Italy

Cristina Crucini

Collaborative Relationships in the Creation and Fashioning of Management Ideas: Gurus, Editors, and Managers

Timothy Clark

David Greatbatch

Consultancies as Actors in Knowledge Arenas: Evidence from Germany

Michael Faust

Part III. Relationship Perspectives on the Consultancy Project

Managers as Marionettes? Using Fashion Theories to Explain the Success of Consultancies

Alfred Kieser

Promoting Demand, Gaining Legitimacy, and Broadening Expertise: The Evolution of Consultancy-Client Relationships in Australia

Christopher Wright

The Burden of Otherness: Limits of Consultancy Interventions in Historical Case Studies

Matthias Kipping

Thomas Armbruster

Managers and Consultants as Embedded Actors: Evidence from Norway

Hallgeir Gammelsceter

References

Name Index

Subject Index