TY - UNPB
T1 - Consultants and organization concepts; tracing routes of reception
AU - Heusinkveld, Stefan
AU - Benders, Jos
N1 - Relation: http://som.rug.nl/
date_submitted:2002
Rights: Graduate School/Research Institute, Systems, Organisations and Management (SOM)
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The aim of this paper is to explore how organization concepts evolve within consulting organizations.
These companies are characterized by specific historical backgrounds, organization
forms, particular services and include consultants with their own professional interests
and competencies. As a consequence, organization concepts will likely take different journeys
in different consulting companies and may leave a wide array of different traces. Drawing on
interviews with leading consultants from a large variety of different consulting firms, this
study seeks to develop several central elements in the internal reception trajectories. Firstly,
the empirical material suggests a large range of alternative routes in the way organization
concepts condense and crystallize consulting organizations. Secondly, the research found that
the continuous processes of sedimentation and erosion of organizational knowledge that such
concepts may bring along within consultancies suggests a more multifaceted view on stability
and change than often is asserted by management fashion literature.
AB - The aim of this paper is to explore how organization concepts evolve within consulting organizations.
These companies are characterized by specific historical backgrounds, organization
forms, particular services and include consultants with their own professional interests
and competencies. As a consequence, organization concepts will likely take different journeys
in different consulting companies and may leave a wide array of different traces. Drawing on
interviews with leading consultants from a large variety of different consulting firms, this
study seeks to develop several central elements in the internal reception trajectories. Firstly,
the empirical material suggests a large range of alternative routes in the way organization
concepts condense and crystallize consulting organizations. Secondly, the research found that
the continuous processes of sedimentation and erosion of organizational knowledge that such
concepts may bring along within consultancies suggests a more multifaceted view on stability
and change than often is asserted by management fashion literature.
M3 - Working paper
BT - Consultants and organization concepts; tracing routes of reception
PB - s.n.
ER -