Management Consultancy And The British State

Author : Antonio E. Weiss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319998763

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Management Consultancy and the British State by Antonio E. Weiss Pdf

This book traces the emergence and development of the relationship between management consultancies and the British state. It seeks to answer three questions: why were management consultants brought into the machinery of the state; how has state power been impacted by bringing profit-seeking actors into the machinery of the state; and how has the nature of management consultancy changed over time? The book demonstrates the role consultants played in major developments in the postwar period. Specific case studies interrogate how consultancies influenced the policy fields of health service reform and social security benefits. This book will redefine debates amongst business historians and historians of the postwar British state about the nature of management consultancy and public sector reform.

Author : Chris Hurl,Leah B. Werner
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13T00:00:00Z
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781773636832

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The Consulting Trap by Chris Hurl,Leah B. Werner Pdf

The Consulting Trap does a deep dive into how governments have become hooked on private consultancy firms with dire consequences for democratic decision-making, public accountability and accessible public services. Hurl and Werner contend that firms like McKinsey, Accenture, KPMG and Deloitte increasingly take responsibility for core public services, trapping governments in cycles of dependency. Through orchestrating tax avoidance for the wealthy while engineering austerity for the rest, these firms have created the foundations for the deepening privatization of the public services, further entrenching their power. Drawing on case studies from Canada and around the world, Hurl and Werner investigate how big consultancies leverage social networks, institutionalize relationships, mine and commodify data, and establish policy pipelines that facilitate the quick diffusion of ideas across jurisdictions. Drawing from real world examples, The Consulting Trap offers strategies for how these powerful firms can be resisted using people’s audits, public consultations, access to information requests, and social network analyses.

Author : Michael Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351728423

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The Rise of Management Consulting in Britain by Michael Ferguson Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: The history of management consulting in Britain is a subject that has received little attention in the past in terms of research or publication. This work redresses the gap in the knowledge base of business and management history, presenting the historical situation in the context of management consulting. Identifying the beginnings of consultancy services in the mid-nineteenth century, Ferguson charts its progression through a series of time frames that span the twentieth century. Utilizing a series of consistent themes, such as service delivery forms and training, which can be compared and contrasted across time, the book provides not only a history of management consultancy services, but also shows how the take-up and form of services was heavily dependent upon the prevailing attitudes within business to the role of management. The thoroughly researched and well-presented arguments in this book will greatly add to our knowledge of British management during the twentieth century.

Author : Mariana Mazzucato,Rosie Collington
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593492680

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The Big Con by Mariana Mazzucato,Rosie Collington Pdf

A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry—and what to do about it There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies’ reliance on companies such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability, and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown. The “Big Con” describes the confidence trick the consulting industry performs in contracts with hollowed-out and risk-averse governments and shareholder value-maximizing firms. It grew from the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of reforms by the neoliberal right and Third Way progressives, and it thrives on the ills of modern capitalism, from financialization and privatization to the climate crisis. It is possible because of the unique power that big consultancies wield through extensive contracts and networks—as advisors, legitimators, and outsourcers—and the illusion that they are objective sources of expertise and capacity. In the end, the Big Con weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments, and warps our economies. In The Big Con, Mazzucato and Collington throw back the curtain on the consulting industry. They dive deep into important case studies of consultants taking the reins with disastrous results, such as the debacle of the roll out of HealthCare.gov and the tragic failures of governments to respond adequately to the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is an important and exhilarating intellectual journey into the modern economy’s beating heart. With peerless scholarship, and a wealth of original research, Mazzucato and Collington argue brilliantly for building a new system in which public and private sectors work innovatively for the common good.

Author : Caspar van den Berg,Michael Howlett,Andrea Migone,Frida Pemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108496674

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Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective by Caspar van den Berg,Michael Howlett,Andrea Migone,Frida Pemer Pdf

Sheds new light on the use of external public policy consultants from an interdisciplinary and international comparative approach.

Author : Chris Hurl,Anne Vogelpohl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030721282

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Professional Service Firms and Politics in a Global Era by Chris Hurl,Anne Vogelpohl Pdf

This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective. Drawing on cases studies from around the world, researchers from different disciplines—including sociology, political science, geography, anthropology, history, and management studies—examine how professional service firms have generated power in the policy-making process. The chapters further investigate the structure and organization of these firms and their relationship with public agencies. They discuss the impact of strategies, techniques and models promoted by these firms on political decision-making. And they analyze how these firms have contributed to the formation of global policy-pipelines, facilitating the quick diffusion of policy ideas across time and space. Exposing how professional advisors can undermine democratic decision-making, the chapters in this book explore the potential for resistance and regulation of public-private relationships.

Author : Denis Saint-Martin
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015049510848

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Building the New Managerialist State by Denis Saint-Martin Pdf

This volume studies how the world of governance has witnessed a transition from the Weberian model of bureaucracy to the new managerialism. It examines the differences in the extent to which France, Canada and Britain have embraced these ideas.

Author : Ewan Ferlie,Laurence E. Lynn,Christopher Pollitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199226443

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The Oxford Handbook of Public Management by Ewan Ferlie,Laurence E. Lynn,Christopher Pollitt Pdf

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad overview to each topic.

Author : Joe O'Mahoney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199577187

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Management Consultancy by Joe O'Mahoney Pdf

"Providing a balance between critical analysis and practical skills, Management Consultancy provides insights into industry trends, client engagements and consultancy careers, to ensure you have all the information and guidance you require to become a successful management consultant." --Book Jacket.

Author : Alan W. Cafruny,Leila Simona Talani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031239144

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The Political Economy of Global Responses to COVID-19 by Alan W. Cafruny,Leila Simona Talani Pdf

This book seeks to identify the reasons why some countries were more efficient and effective than others in responding to the COVID 19 pandemic, and why the global community failed to coalesce. What are the political determinants of the different state responses to the pandemic? Why was scientific advice rejected or ignored in many countries? What has been the role, respectively, of neoliberalism, populism, and authoritarianism in the making of Covid-19 policy? What role have each of these factors played in the uneven and clearly inadequate global response to the pandemic? In an effort to understand why some states failed to handle the pandemic properly, some of the literature suggests that populism is at the root of the current failure of international co-operation. The global financial crisis of 2008-10 triggered significant cooperation within the G-20, led by the combined efforts of the United States and China. These forms of cooperation have clearly disappeared in the context of the pandemic, not only with respect to economic policy but also in public health and management. The authors of this volume link the different state responses to the pandemic-- from its inception to the start of the vaccination campaign, and to the political regimes prevailing in each. In particular, the present volume focuses on a distinction between the responses of neo-liberal regimes, populist regimes and authoritarian ones.

Author : Matthias Kipping,Timothy Clark
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191628092

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The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting by Matthias Kipping,Timothy Clark Pdf

Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business, and within other types of organization. The Oxford Handbook on Management Consulting is a comprehensive overview of thinking and research on management consultancy with contributions from leading international scholars. The first section provides an account of the historical developments in management consulting research, and how current thinking has evolved from prior work. The second section focuses on disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, their diversities, areas of synergy, and parallel concerns. The following sections examine consulting as a knowledge business, consultants and management fashion, and the relationship between management consultants and their clients. The Handbook concludes with an assessment of areas of future research and debate. By bringing together a wide range of research and thinking on management consulting across different disciplines, sub-disciplines, and conceptual approaches, the Handbook provides a comprehensive understanding of both current thinking and future directions for research.

Author : Barry Curnow,Jonathan Reuvid
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749446994

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International Guide to Management Consultancy by Barry Curnow,Jonathan Reuvid Pdf

Now in its second edition, this unique and authoritative guide provides a description of the management consultancy profession worldwide, together with advice on how to choose and use its services effectively. With contributions from leading practitioners, the guide is essential reading for all purchasers of management consultancy services. Part One identifies the parameters and definitions of management consultancy. It presents overviews of the industry's origins and evolution, the present status of the leading multinational management consultancies and some of the global forces shaping the development of management consultancy. Part Two is devoted to ethics and best practice in management consultancy from a number of perspectives. Central to these discussions is the international development of the Certified Management Consultant (CMC) qualification. Part Three scrutinises the life of the client-consultant relationship, focusing on what clients can do to make the consultant's role effective and their working relationship productive. Part Four comprises snapshots by leading practitioners of thirteen key consultancy fields, ranging from strategy and marketing through change management and process re-engineering to the newer disciplines of information and knowledge management, m-commerce, ERP and e-business. Part Five consists of a general account of consulting in developing countries, followed by profiles of 26 country-by-country management consultancy markets.

Author : John F. Wilson,Ian Jones,Steven Toms
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000441994

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The Development of Professional Management by John F. Wilson,Ian Jones,Steven Toms Pdf

This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on the development of professional management. With contributions on consultancy and the training of consultants, Taylorism and its appeal to socialists, the social position of managers, and the growth of the managerial class, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history. Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.

Author : Helen M. Gunter,Colin Mills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319488790

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Consultants and Consultancy: the Case of Education by Helen M. Gunter,Colin Mills Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study into and about consultants doing consultancy, and having influence in ways that generate concerns about an emerging ‘consultocracy’, with privileged access to governments and public services. It presents a detailed mapping of consultants and consultancy in education as a site of change and modernisation in public sector service provision. It considers consultancy at a macro-level of globalised policy, at a meso-level of national government policy, and at a micro level with vivid descriptions and analyses of consultants at work. The rapid rise of ‘edubusinesses’, combined with the restructuring of public services in western style democracies, has generated new types of ‘knowledge actors’ within education policy. Three main developments that have led to this change are: the entry of education policy and service consultants from within major companies into the public education market place; the emergence of ‘celebrity’ entrepreneurial actors and private businesses who make interventions into Universities and schools; and the rapid growth of small businesses based on individuals who have relocated their work from the public to the private sector. Such knowledge actors and the complexities they bring to public education are as yet under described and largely un-theorized. Based on current research and drawing upon a range of theoretical tools, this book fills the gap. Gunter and Mills provide an invaluable contribution to scholarship on the neoliberal restructuring of public education by mapping and analyzing the under-examined yet central role of corporate education consultants. Their thoughtful and thorough discussion expands our understanding of how consultants promote and trade in the ideologies of corporate culture. Gunter and Mills show how consultants are integral to both knowledge making practices in schools and a radical reform agenda for schools in the UK and around the globe. This is an accessible and important volume for not just policy and politics scholars but anyone concerned about defending public forms of education and associated living at a moment when they are increasingly being positioned for pillage by profiteers. Kenneth J. Saltman, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA

Author : United States International Trade Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Belgium
ISBN : UCSD:31822007845142

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The Effects of Greater Economic Integration Within the European Community on the United States by United States International Trade Commission Pdf