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| ISBN: | 9780511488467
0511488467
9780511292095
0511292090
9780511338649
0511338643
0511293690
9780511293696
9780511296062
0511296061
9780521857154
0521857155
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-246) and index.
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| Summary: | Management consultancy is a key sector in the economic change toward a service and knowledge economy. Originally published in 2006, this book explains the mechanisms of the management consulting market and the management of consulting firms from both economic and sociological perspectives. It also examines the strategies, marketing approaches, knowledge management and human resource management techniques of consulting firms. After outlining the relationships between transaction cost economics, signaling theory, embeddedness theory and sociological neoinstitutionalism, Thomas Armbrüster applies these theories to central questions such as: Why does the consulting sector exist and grow? Which institutions connect supply and demand? And which factors influence the relationship between clients and consultants? By applying both economic and sociological approaches, the book explains the general economic changes of the previous thirty years and sharpens the relationship between the academic disciplines.
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| Other form: | Print version: Armbrüster, Thomas, 1968- Economics and sociology of management consulting. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 9780521857154
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