Creative Consulting
Innovative Perspective on Management Consulting
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2006
401 pages
978-1-60752-837-1 (ISBN)
Description
Creative Consulting: Innovative Perspectives on Management Consulting ¿the fourth volume in the Research in Management Consulting series¿presents fifteen chapters that explore these changes and pressures, focusing on the management consulting industry itself, current trends andtechniques in management consulting, and reflections on consulting theory building and intervention.
All prices
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2000
Information Age Publishing
€77.80
Article not available at the moment
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: THE MANAGEMENT CONSULTING INDUSTRY
- 1. Management Fashion as Collective Action: The Production of Management Best-Sellers
- 2. The Social Construction of Global Management Consulting: A Study of Consultancy Web Presentations
- 3. Selling Professionalism?: Image Making in the Management Consulting Industry
- 4. Exploring Knowledge Issues in the Consulting Relationship: A Client-centered Perspective
- 5. Management Consultants as Agents of Homogenization: Consulting Roles and Processes in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions
- Part II: TRENDS AND TECHNIQUESIN MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
- 6. Service Climate and Employee Satisfaction in Linkage Research: Which Matters? When and Why?
- 7. Intervening in Virtual Teams: Lessons from Practice
- 8. Successful Executive Coaching from the Consumer's Perspective: Adaptive and Developmental Learning
- 9. Coaching Leaders in Transition: Lessons from the Field
- 10. Appreciative Inquiry as a Large Group Intervention: An Innovation in Organizational Consulting
- Part III: REFLECTIONS ON MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
- 11. Toward an Emotion Nuanced Sensemaking Perspective of Organizational Consultation: Consulting as Frame Sharing and Frame Changing
- 12. Comparing Psychotherapists' and Change Agents' Approaches to Change: Reflections on Changing People and Changing Organizations
- 13. The Transformative Approach
- 14. Realities of Public Sector Consultation: Information Age Challenges in Government
- 15. Predicting and Enhancing Client Success
- Contributors
