Exploring the Professional Identity of Management Consultants (Research in Management Consulting) - Softcover

Anthony F. Buono (editor), LÚon De CaluwÚ (editor) & Annemieke Stoppelenburg (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1623961718 ISBN 13: 9781623961718

Verlag: Information Age Publishing, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The volume is based on the presentations and discussions from the Fifth European Conference on Management Consulting sponsored by the Management Consulting Division of the Academy of Management, which took place June, 2011 at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference theme - Exploring the Professional Identity of Management Consultants - attempted to capture the highly ambiguous social status of this young and emerging profession. Management consulting does not have professional standards or accreditation criteria like those found in medicine or law, there are low barriers to entry, and a broad range of tasks are undertaken in the name of consulting. As a result, a crucial aspect of what constitutes such a loosely defined profession is the identity of its members. The professional identity of management consultants is continuously developing through the interplay of how consultants are seen and valued by clients as well as in the larger society, and how consultancy firms and consultants identify and position themselves. This theme includes a variety of topics, ranging from the interaction between consultants and their clients, consultant rhetoric and self-presentation, and the plethora of books, media and public discourse on consulting, to human resource policies and practices, knowledge development activities of consultancy firms, career and life stories of consultants and consultancies, and consulting associations, accreditation bodies, and education programs. All of these factors contribute, either directly or indirectly, to identity construction in the field of management consulting.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anthony F. Buono, Bentley University, USA.

Léon de Caluwé, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands.

Annemieke Stoppelenburg, Tilburg University and SIOO, Netherlands.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Information Age Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1623961718
• ISBN 13: 9781623961718
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330
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