1st Edition
The Management Idea Factory Innovation and Commodification in Management Consulting
1. Management Ideas as Commodities 2. Studying Management Idea Production 3. Sensing the Market 4. Structural Tensions 5. Gaining Currency 6. Practicing and Preaching 7. Stretching Cycle 8. Conclusion
Biography
Stefan Heusinkveld is Associate Professor at the VU University Amsterdam. His research focuses on the production and consumption of management ideas and, in particular, the role of management consultants and management gurus. His work has been published in journals including Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.
"This book develops a distinctive focus on management consultants as ‘knowledge entrepreneurs’. Whereas the bulk of literature has been concerned with the practice and consumption of management ideas, this focus on the ideas generation stage of the consultancy process stresses the crucial role of consultants in the production of management knowledge, as well as filling out our understanding of this important occupational group." – Robin Fincham, Stirling Management School, UK
