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Special Issue: "Management Consulting and Uncertainty" (Fincham / Mohe / Seidl) - free access

  • 1.  Special Issue: "Management Consulting and Uncertainty" (Fincham / Mohe / Seidl) - free access

    Posted 11-08-2013 11:18

    Dear fellow consulting researchers,

     

    A decade ago, Fincham and Clark (2002) published a special issue of ISMO on management consultancy reflecting on one decade of research. Now, another decade has passed which seemed like a good opportunity to reflect on what has been achieved in the meantime. For that purpose we have put together another special issue that presents some of the new developments in this exciting field of research.

     

    To celebrate our special issue the publisher is granting free access to all papers in the issue until December 9th, 2013. As you will see, the papers use uncertainty as a central metaphor for taking stock of wide-ranging developments in research on consultancy, both in terms of the basic idea of consultants as uncertainty reducers for management, and many other interesting ways that consultants' uncertain position in client organizations plays out.

     

    Here is a list of the papers that have been included in the special issue:

     

    Robin Fincham, Michael Mohe, and David Seidl

    Management Consulting and Uncertainty: Mapping the Territory

    http://www.metapress.com/content/w4j132181l802255/

                   

    Barbara Czarniawska

    The Uncertainties of Consulting

    http://www.metapress.com/content/n19u573245453040/

                   

    Frida Pemer and Andreas Werr

    The Uncertain Client of Management Consulting Services

    http://www.metapress.com/content/x24j3m7t4751175q/

     

    Onno Bouwmeester

    Consultant Jokes about Managing Uncertainty: Coping by Humor

    http://www.metapress.com/content/f44451v55k281845/

     

    Andrew Sturdy, Nick Wylie, and Christopher Wright

    Management Consultancy and Organizational Uncertainty: The Case of Internal Consultancy

    http://www.metapress.com/content/y79w678567570622/

     

    N. Natalia Nikolova, Stewart Clegg, Stephen Fox, Kjersti Bjørkeng and Tyrone Pitsis

    Uncertainty Reduction through Everyday Performative Language Work: The Case of Coaching

    http://www.metapress.com/content/g3p7841627k3hh2j/

     

    We hope that you find the special issue of interest.

     

    All the best,

     

    Robin, Michael and David

     

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    Prof. David Seidl, PhD

    Chair of Organization & Management

    University of Zurich | Department of Business Administration

    Universitaetsstrasse 84 | 8006 Zurich | Switzerland

    Phone +41.44.6343750 | Fax +41.44.6343749

    www.om.uzh.ch | david.seidl@uzh.ch

     

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