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While research evaluation has achieved particular significance in
the United Kingdom, there is growing interest and activity in this
area among Scandanavian countries. Funded by the Swedish Council
for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, this book is a
product of the increasing recognition of the importance of
evaluations. The principal aim of "Economics of Sweden" is to
locate Swedish economic research in an international setting and
from there, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of Swedish
economics. Throughout, an effort has been made to relate to recent
work on evaluation by developing a theoretical foundation for
assessing the future of Swedish economic research. The authors have
achieved this by maintaining close two-way contact with the
profession and by combining different empirical methods. This has
taken the form of continuous interaction with the economics
profession in seminars and on site visits to various economics
departments. Although the study is focused on Sweden the analysis
should also be relevant to several other countries, particularly
the other Nordic countries, Canada, Australia and Israel.
Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea
and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and
households to its current ubiquity, focusing in particular on the
role of business schools, consultants, and business media in this
process. How did an entire industry develop around business
schools, consultants, and business media who are now widely
considered the authorities regarding best management practice? This
book shows how these actors - on their own and in interaction -
became taken-for-granted and gained such definitional power over
management and managers, expanded across the globe from often
modest and not always respected origins, and impacted, and continue
to impact businesses and, increasingly, the broader economic and
social context. Building on extant and some new research, the book
is unique in bringing together issues and actors that have been
examined elsewhere separately. Any student or professional of
management interested in the evolution of their field or the rise
of business schools, consultants and business media will find this
book both novel and thought-provoking.
Over time we have seen large corporations, in many cases with
multinational operations, begin to play an increasingly significant
role in modern society. This in turn has put the governance of
these corporations into focus. Against this background, Corporate
Governance in Action helps provide a framework for examining
corporate governance through a focus provided by external pressures
on large corporations. It also brings together the approach of
economics and finance with theories in organization studies, such
as aspects of resource dependency theory. This framework takes into
consideration not only the market relations of modern corporations
but also their dependence on regulators and different kind of
scrutinizers. This thoughtful book is a complete research guide
that provides a new understanding and applicable framework for
advanced students, academics and researchers in the area of
corporate governance and the related disciplines.
During the 1980s and 1990s, organisations have undergone both
regulation and deregulation. This set of papers written by a
distinguished selection of international experts examines the
nature of regulation, its evolution in particular sectors and its
impact on social and economic equality. It draws on social theory
concerned with the nature of regulation and order in modern
societies as well as providing as a series of detailed analyses of
particular forms of regulatory regimes in national and
international contexts. This book, first published in 1999, should
be of particular interest to management and business researchers,
sociologists and political economists concerned with the process of
regulation and its impact on organisations and management.
Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea
and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and
households to its current ubiquity, focusing in particular on the
role of business schools, consultants, and business media in this
process. How did an entire industry develop around business
schools, consultants, and business media who are now widely
considered the authorities regarding best management practice? This
book shows how these actors - on their own and in interaction -
became taken-for-granted and gained such definitional power over
management and managers, expanded across the globe from often
modest and not always respected origins, and impacted, and continue
to impact businesses and, increasingly, the broader economic and
social context. Building on extant and some new research, the book
is unique in bringing together issues and actors that have been
examined elsewhere separately. Any student or professional of
management interested in the evolution of their field or the rise
of business schools, consultants and business media will find this
book both novel and thought-provoking.
Over time we have seen large corporations, in many cases with
multinational operations, begin to play an increasingly significant
role in modern society. This in turn has put the governance of
these corporations into focus. Against this background, Corporate
Governance in Action helps provide a framework for examining
corporate governance through a focus provided by external pressures
on large corporations. It also brings together the approach of
economics and finance with theories in organization studies, such
as aspects of resource dependency theory. This framework takes into
consideration not only the market relations of modern corporations
but also their dependence on regulators and different kind of
scrutinizers. This thoughtful book is a complete research guide
that provides a new understanding and applicable framework for
advanced students, academics and researchers in the area of
corporate governance and the related disciplines.
During the 1980s and 1990s, organisations have undergone both
regulation and deregulation. This set of papers written by a
distinguished selection of international experts examines the
nature of regulation, its evolution in particular sectors and its
impact on social and economic equality. It draws on social theory
concerned with the nature of regulation and order in modern
societies as well as providing as a series of detailed analyses of
particular forms of regulatory regimes in national and
international contexts. This book, first published in 1999, should
be of particular interest to management and business researchers,
sociologists and political economists concerned with the process of
regulation and its impact on organisations and management.
Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management
education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of
management practice has allowed for a widespread diffusion of
management ideas across sectors and continents. This book provides
an up-to-date summary of the development, refinement, and diffusion
of managerial ideas, adding detail and explanation to commonly held
conceptions about the explosion of management knowledge.
The contributors contend that management ideas do not flow
automatically but are actively shaped and transformed by knowledge
carriers--business schools, consultancies, and the media. Drawing
on data from worldwide empirical studies, the chapters analyze how
such carriers are organized, how they act and react, and how they
shape and reshape knowledge. The book places the development and
diffusion of management knowledge in a wider environmental and
historical context and offers stimulating comparisons of European
and American management traditions.
The combination of theory and practice will make this book a
valuable resource for courses dealing with management,
organizational and institutional theory, and globalization.
Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management
education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of
management practice has allowed for a widespread diffusion of
management ideas across sectors and continents. This book provides
an up-to-date summary of the development, refinement, and diffusion
of managerial ideas, adding detail and explanation to commonly held
conceptions about the explosion of management knowledge.
The contributors contend that management ideas do not flow
automatically but are actively shaped and transformed by knowledge
carriers--business schools, consultancies, and the media. Drawing
on data from worldwide empirical studies, the chapters analyze how
such carriers are organized, how they act and react, and how they
shape and reshape knowledge. The book places the development and
diffusion of management knowledge in a wider environmental and
historical context and offers stimulating comparisons of European
and American management traditions.
The combination of theory and practice will make this book a
valuable resource for courses dealing with management,
organizational and institutional theory, and globalization.
This volume makes an important contribution to the growing
literature on management consulting. It brings together
international contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds and
draws on recent empirical research from a diverse range of
countries, consultancy firms, and client companies. The analysis
focuses on three key areas. The first part of the book looks at the
emergence and development of the consulting industry in different
countries and time periods. The interplay between national systemic
context and outside influences is stressed, and the efforts of
consultants to become recognized as 'legitimate' knowledge carriers
by their clients is highlighted, in competition - and sometimes
cooperation - with other suppliers of management knowledge, notably
academia. The volume goes on to consider the generation,
management, and validation of consulting knowledge by consultancy
organizations and management gurus, showing how these activities
are influenced not only by the consultancies' own characteristics
in terms of size, structure, and national origin, but also by the
(national and cultural) context in which they are operating, and by
the role of 'gatekeepers', such as book publishers or journalists.
The third part of the book focuses on the nature and dynamics of
the consultancy-client relationship, focusing especially on the
ways in which consultants convince managers of the need to hire
outside advisors; on the reaction of those concerned in the client
organization towards the consultants' recommendations; and on the
methods used by the consultants to overcome the possible reluctance
and resistance from within the organization. From a more
theoretical point of view, the chapters in this volume also show
that research on management consulting has to take into account
different levels of analysis: the consulting industry as a whole
and its position relative to other knowledge providers such as
academia; the specific consultancy organization and its
relationships with internal and external sources of knowledge; and
the particular consultancy project and notably the interplay
between the consultants and the various stakeholders within and
outside the client organization.
This volume examines different aspects of management consulting in an innovative and comprehensive way. The chapters are based on original research and cover a wide range of countries (e.g. Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Germany, Australia, and Norway), consulting firms, and client organizations. They show how the consulting industry managed to reach the importance it has today; how consultancies and management gurus develop new ideas and/or repackage old ones; and how consultants find or retain clients and interact with them in a given project.
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