The field of management consultancy research has grown rapidly in recent years. Fuelled by the drivers of complexity and uncertainty, a growing number of organizations – both profit and third sector alike – are looking at management consultancy to assist in their aims for development and change. Consultants have become a common feature in organizational change initiatives, involved in both providing advice and in implementing ideas and solutions. However, despite this growing recognition and influence, management consultancy is still often misunderstood or criticized for its lack of theoretical underpinning.
The book seeks to address these issues by offering applied theoretical insights from academics that both teach and practice management consultancy. Written by recognized experts in their field, the contributors combine original insights with authoritative analysis. Uniquely, this book identifies emerging themes with critical discourse and provides rich empirical case study evidence to show the reader how management consultancy projects are implemented. Real-world international consultancy projects are featured as written up cases featuring organizations from multi-national corporations to the public sector.
Written for graduate level managers or those who have practical leadership experience, this book will enable readers to apply management consultancy models beyond a classroom context
Dr Graham Manville CMC, MBA, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Business and Management, the Director of Employability and Enterprise for Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He has won several national and international awards in the field of research and consulting. In addition, he is a Director of Longview Consulting Ltd.
Dr Olga Matthias CMC, DBA is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management, School of Management, University of Bradford, UK. Previously, she had a long career at PA Consulting Group in the Business Operations and Performance practice.
Julian Campbell MBA is the Programme Director for the Executive MBA at the Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is also a visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at Vysoka Skola Ekonomicka in Prague. Prior to working in academia, he ran his own consultancy practice specialising in brand management with clients in Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
