Creative Consulting: Innovative Perspectives on Management Consulting (Hc)

by Anthony F. Buono (Editor)

Overview

Buono (Bentley College) collects material on changes in the management consultant industry, current trends and techniques in management consulting, and concepts of consulting theory building and intervention. Contributors in business administration, strategic management, and organizational change offer perspectives on the various ways in which consultants and their firms are attempting to position and reposition themselves as leading professionals, and address topics in linkage research, global virtual teams, and executive coaching. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593112417
Publisher:	Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	08/12/2004
Series:	Research in Management Consulting Ser.
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
Part I	The Management Consulting Industry
1.	Management Fashion as Collective Action: The Production of Management Best-Sellers	3
2.	The Social Construction of Global Management Consulting: A Study of Consultancy Web Presentations	27
3.	Selling Professionalism?: Image Making in the Management Consulting Industry	51
4.	Exploring Knowledge Issues in the Consulting Relationship: A Client-centered Perspective	73
5.	Management Consultants as Agents of Homogenization: Consulting Roles and Processes in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions	99
Part II	Trends and Techniques in Management Consulting
6.	Service Climate and Employee Satisfaction in Linkage Research: Which Matters? When and Why?	125
7.	Intervening in Virtual Teams: Lessons from Practice	143
8.	Successful Executive Coaching from the Consumer's Perspective: Adaptive and Developmental Learning	165
9.	Coaching Leaders in Transition: Lessons from the Field	201
10.	Appreciative Inquiry as a Large Group Intervention: An Innovation in Organizational Consulting	229
Part III	Reflections on Management Consulting
11.	Toward an Emotion Nuanced Sensemaking Perspective of Organizational Consultation: Consulting as Frame Sharing and Frame Changing	245
12.	Comparing Psychotherapists' and Change Agents' Approaches to Change: Reflections on Changing People and Changing Organizations	267
13.	The Transformative Approach	303
14.	Realities of Public Sector Consultation: Information Age Challenges in Government	325
15.	Predicting and Enhancing Client Success	345
	Contributors	373