The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting

Matthias Kipping is Professor of Strategic Management and Chair in Business History at the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Munich and additional degrees in France and the United States and held previous appointments in the United Kingdom and Spain. He has published widely on management consultancy and its evolution, and co-edited with Lars Engwall a volume on Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamics of a Knowledge Industry (OUP, 2002). Timothy Clark is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Durham Business School, Durham University. He has conducted a series of research projects into different aspects of the work of management consultants which have resulted in influential publications in the area including Managing Consultants (Open University Press, 1995) and Critical Consulting: New Perspectives on the Management Advice Industry (2002, Blackwell, with R. Fincham).

• SECTION 1: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTING; SECTION 2: DISCIPLINARY AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES; SECTION 3: CONSULTING AS A KNOWLEDGE BUSINESS; SECTION 4: CONSULTANTS AND MANAGEMENT FASHIONS; SECTION 5: CONSULTANTS AND THEIR CLIENTS; SECTION 6: NEW AVENUES FOR RESEARCH