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 …

This article examines the active client of management consultancy as a key agent in
managing and mediating knowledge flows across organizational boundaries. From a …

The growing use of external management consultancy services by public sector
organizations has generated controversy. Some claim that users have become overreliant …

This study investigates whether employees' psychological ownership results in stewardship
behavior and whether this relationship is affected by an employee's perception of the …

This paper investigates the determinants of success of the client-consultant relationship from
the consultant's point of view. Ten consultants from various fields (eg change management …

Research has recently provided evidence that at least some companies have involved
purchasing departments in buying professional services such as management consulting …

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 …

The shift in municipal procurement of construction-related services from technical
departments to central departments of procurement has significant impacts on the selection …

Management consultants are often said to be in the business of uncertainty reduction. By
providing knowledge, expertise, simplifying views of reality, or affirming the managerial role …

Research on professional service purchasing generally takes a culturally universalistic
approach, implicitly assuming the generalizability of research findings and normative …