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Creative Consulting:
Innovative Perspectives on Management Consulting


Edited by:
Anthony F. Buono
Bentley College

A volume in the series: Research in Management Consulting. Series Editor: Anthony F. Buono, Bentley College.

Contents: Introduction, Anthony F. Buono. PART I: The Management Consulting Industry. Management Fashion as Collective Action: The Production of Management Best-Sellers, Timothy Clark. The Social Construction of Global Management Consulting: A Study of Consultancy Web Presentations, Jonas Bäcklund and Andreas Werr. Selling Professionalism?: Image Making in the Management ConsultingIndustry, Jacqueline Kam. Exploring Knowledge Issues in the Consulting Relationship: A Client-centered Perspective, GerganaTodorova. Management Consultants as Agents of Homogenization: Consulting Roles and Processes in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Bo Hellgren, Jan Löwstedt, Janne Tienari, Eero Vaara and Andreas Werr. PART II: Trends and Techniques in Management Consulting. Service Climate and Employee Satisfaction in Linkage Research: Which Matters? When and Why? Kyle Lundby and Kristofer Fenlason. Intervening in Virtual Teams: Lessons from Practice, Kenneth W. Kerber and Anthony F. Buono. Successful Executive Coaching from the Consumer's Perspective: Adaptive and Developmental Learning, James M. Hunt. Coaching Leaders in Transition: Lessons from the Field, Robert Witherspoon and Mark D. Cannon. Appreciative Inquiry as a Large Group Intervention: An Innovation in Organizational Consulting, Peter F. Sorensen and Therese F. Yaeger. PART III: Reflections on Management Consulting. Toward an Emotion Nuanced Sensemaking Perspective of Organizational Consultation: Consulting as Frame Sharing and Frame Changing, Craig C. Lundberg. Comparing Psychotherapists' and Change Agents' Approaches to Change: Reflections on Changing People and Changing Organizations, Léonde Caluwé, Frans Que, and Hans Vermaak. The Transformative Approach, DonizeteAntunes. Realities of Public Sector Consultation: Information Age Challenges in Government, Alan M. Glassman and Morley Winograd. Predicting and Enhancing Client Success, James Ross Warren. Contributors.


2004. 398 pp.
Paperback ISBN: 1-59311-240-8 $39.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-59311-241-6 $73.99
Related Titles
Challenges and Issues in Knowledge Management. Edited by Anthony F. Buono, Bentley College & Flemming Poulfelt, Copenhagen Business School

Current Trends in Management Consulting. Edited by Anthony F. Buono, Bentley College

Developing Knowledge and Value in Management Consulting. Edited by Anthony F. Buono, Bentley College

Enhancing Inter-Firm Networks & Interorganizational Strategies. Edited by Anthony F. Buono, Bentley College

Socio-Economic Intervention in Organizations: The Intervener-Researcher and the SEAM Approach to Organizational Analysis Edited by Anthony F. Buono, Bentley College and Henri Savall, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and ISEOR


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