Over the last few years research on management consulting has established itself as an
important area in management studies. While, traditionally, consulting research has been …

This book is about professional business service firms in general and consulting companies
in particular; about experts and management gurus; about human cognition; about …

This article reviews the nature of client-consultant interactions. It examines the nature of
consulting, power relations, and the different models of the client-consultant relationship. It …

Based on the investigation of seven consultancy projects within an international technical
consulting firm, we identify three major practices that characterize client–consultant …

Although there is a broad body of scientific and practice-oriented literature on management
consulting (see Engwall & Kipping, this issue), communication science in general and PR …

How do managers discursively construct the consultant-client relationship? How do these
constructions relate to managerial discourses of the bureaucratic and the network …

The central thesis of this paper is that the production of knowledge in consulting teams can
neither be understood as the result of an internal interaction between clients and consultants …

Research on management consultancy usually emphasizes the role and perspective of the
consultants. Whilst important, consultants are only one element in a dynamic relationship …

Grounded in case study research, the consultant‐client relationship is conceived as
mediating between, and reconciling, competing enactments. Through their work, consultants …

THE SCIENTIFIC PARADIGM The profession of social work was born and raised under the
influence of a scientific model which showed an objective investigator at work, exploring his …