Critical Consulting: New Perspectives on the Management Advice Industry

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: The Emergence of Critical Perspectives on Consulting: Robin Fincham (Stirling University) and Timothy Clark (King's College).

Part I: Setting the Scene: The Nature of Management Consultancy and Management Advice:.

1. Consulting: What Should it Mean?: Edgar H Schein (MIT Sloan School of Management).

2. Trapped in their Wave: The Evolution of Management Consultancies: Matthias Kipping (University of Reading).

3. The Rise of Consultancy and the Prospect for Regions: Peter Wood (University College London).

4. On Knowledge, Business Consultants and the Selling of TQM: Karen Legge (University of Warwick).

Part II: The Contexts of Management Consultancy and Management Advice:.

5. Virtual Stories of Virtual Working: Critical Reflections on CTI Consultancy Discourse: Peter Case (Oxford Brookes University).

6. The Vision Thing: Constructing Technology and the Future in Management Advice: Brian P Bloomfield (Lancaster University Management School) and Theo Vurdubakis (Manchester School of Management).

7. Front-Line Diffusion: The Production and Negotiation of Knowledge Through Training Interactions: Andrew Sturdy (University of Melbourne).

8. Knowledge Legitimation and Audience Affiliation Through Storytelling: The Example of Management Gurus: Timothy Clark (King's College) and David Greatbatch (Independent Social Scientist).

9. A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Three Guru-Led Management Fashions: Brad Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington).

Part III: Critical Reflections on Management Consultancy and Management Advice:.

10. Charisma versus Technique: Differentiating the Expertise of Management Gurus and Management Consultants: Robin Fincham (Stirling University).

11. On Communication Barriers between Management Science, Consultancies and Business Companies: Alfred Kieser (University of Mannheim).

12. Professionalism and Politics in Management Consultancy Work: Mats Alvesson (Lund University) and Anders W Johansson (Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden).

13. Understanding Advice: Towards a Sociology of Management Consultancy: Graeme Salaman (Open University).

14. What Next? More Critique of Consultants, Gurus and Managers: Frank Heller (Centre for Decision Making Studies).

Index.