Purpose Academic research on management consulting or having management
consultancy as the main research field is huge as the sector is a strategic one for …

Collaborative research is seen as a promising approach for bridging the rigor-relevance
gap. In this essay, the authors criticize that the proponents of this approach tend to downplay …

Organizations have to cope with the complexity of their environment in order to survive. A
considerable body of research has shown that organizations may respond to environmental …

Management consulting firms play a crucial role in companies' strategic and organizational
activities. In business practice, however, they are often criticized for providing inferior …

This article introduces Luhmann's theory of social systems as a prominent example of
communication as constitutive of organization (CCO) thinking and argues that Luhmann's …

Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), together with Jürgen Habermas, ranks as one of the most
important German social theorists of the twentieth century. His works have been highly …

A multi-tier supply chain is a complex system as it covers a focal company and multiple tiers
of suppliers in a complex supply chain network. This study explores the complexity in multi …

Decisions are the cornerstone of many perspectives and theories of organization. Classical
contributions by Barnard (1938), or March and Simon (1958) and their subsequent work …

This book accounts for the transformation of organizations in a post-bureaucratic era by
bringing a communicational lens to the ontological discussion on organization …

This article introduces management consultants and management consultancy, which have
quickly become an important part of modern organizations. It notes that research on …