Matthias Kipping
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 377645 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matthias Kipping |
| NOMBRES | Matthias |
| APELLIDO | Kipping |
| FIRMA | KIPPING M |
| AFILIACIONES | York University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Making managers
The idea that institutions at university level should engage in offering courses and programs to prepare people for administrative and managerial positions in commerce and business originally emerged in parallel in several countries during the mid- to late 19th century (Engwall and Zamagni 1998; Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2010, 2016). However, at that time, ‘business’ – or, more commonly, ‘commerce’ – was little respected within academia, with…
Defining Management
Defining Management charts the expansion of management as an idea and practice from a time when it was limited to churches and households to its current ubiquity, focusing in particular on the role of business schools, consultants, and business media in this process. How did an entire industry develop around business schools, consultants, and business media who are now widely considered the authorities regarding best management practice? This boo…
Introduction
Emerging markets trigger great expectations. Many foreign multinationals are eager to exploit the entrepreneurial opportunities potentially related to less developed but fast growing markets. This is not a new phenomenon. Multinationals from more developed countries have for long searched for opportunities in less developed markets and have dealt with the related challenges. Foreign environments with different needs and capabilities, unstable ins…
New business histories! Plurality in business history research methods
We agree with de Jong et al.'s argument that business historians should make their methods more explicit and welcome a more general debate about the most appropriate methods for business historical research. But rather than advocating one ‘new business history’, we argue that contemporary debates about methodology in business history need greater appreciation for the diversity of approaches that have developed in the last decade. And while the hy…
The managerialization of banking
This paper shows how banks in the USA and Western Europe became more managerial during the late 1960s and 1970s, due to the adoption of a multidivisional organizational structure, originally pioneered by industrial enterprises in the 1920s. This meant the introduction of a more elaborate hierarchy with more autonomy as well as accountability for all levels, including the branches, which were supposed to generate profits through more ‘aggressive’ …
The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting
Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business, and within other types of organization. This book is an overview of eminent thinking and research on management consultancy with contributions from leading international scholars. The first section provides an account of the historical developments in management consultancy research, and how current thinking has evolved from prior work. The second section foc…
The Oxford handbook of management consulting
Historical perspectives on organizational stability and change
In this Introduction to the special issue, we begin by providing a brief review of the way history has been treated in existing work on organizational change, noting that a historical approach has either been non-existent or at best employed in a ‘supplementarist’ way. We then proceed to summarizing the empirical and theoretical foundations and the core arguments of the articles included in this special issue. In the final section, we conclude by…
Professions, organizations and the state
In the recent literature on knowledge-based occupations it is frequently noted that some groups, such as management consultants, have been far less successful than others in developing a system of professional regulation and organization. This is generally attributed to the functional characteristics of their knowledge base, which is too elusive, fuzzy and perishable to sustain traditional professionalization projects. It is also suggested that t…
Hollow from the start? Image professionalism in management consulting
This article shows how over the course of more than a century management consulting firms have managed to create an image of professionalism in order to both gain external legitimacy with their clients and control their own human resources. Adding to the extant literature on 'professionalism as a resource', it demonstrates in particular how during the development of the industry, the sources of this 'image professionalism' changed significantly, …
Mintzberg's Emergent and Deliberate Strategies
The management scholar Henry Mintzberg has situated company strategies on a continuum that ranges from those that are the result of deliberate internal decisions, on one extreme, to those that emerge largely as a response to external forces, on the other. This framework is applied to the strategies of the Canadian aluminum producer Alcan, in Europe, from its origins as a spin-off from Alcoa, in 1928, until its acquisition by Rio Tinto, in 2007. T…
Private transnational governance in the heyday of the nation‐state
This article examines an example of private transnational governance in the first decades after the Second World War: the Council of European Industrial Federations (CEIF), created in 1949 by the peak‐level trade associations in western Europe. Based on this case, the article takes issue with two predominant views in the current literature: a view that sees the European integration process, at least in its early stages, as driven largely by natio…
Management Education, Media and Consulting and the Creation of European Management Practice
European management practice is rapidly becoming standardized through the imitation of large actors and the interaction of institutions for management education, management media and management consulting. This process is reinforced by the fact that these three types of institutions are increasingly becoming more homogeneous. The CEMP research reported in this article provided evidence for these developments in terms of the structure of the diffe…
The Business of Dependency
Between Regulation, Promotion and Consumption
It is very important to decide when to stop using the consultants, because you very easily get addicted, you very easily get used to these well trained, hard working people running around.1 During
Converging towards American dominance? Developments and structures of consultancy fields in Europe
Cet article s’efforce d’analyser les tendances récentes en matière de structure et composition des marchés du conseil en Europe : ont-ils été peu à peu dominés par des sociétés qui diffusent avant tout les concepts américains de management ? Il met certes l’accent sur les contextes et les acteurs plus que sur les contenus diffusés, mais il représente une première étape dans la compréhension des rapports entre la structure de l’industrie du consei…
La France et les origines de l'Union europeenne. Integration economique et competitivite internationale
The Americanisation of European Business
This book examines the mechanisms and channels through which American managerial know-how and US management models were transferred to Europe after 1945, as well as the actual influence on European industries, companies and regions in the 1950s and 1960s. It explores the role of the European Productivity Agency, business leaders, US multinationals, regional networks and institutions, as well as the actual transfer process and potential political,…
Les relations gouvernement-monde des affaires dans la France de l'après-guerre
The article gives an overview of the development of government-business relations in France from the end of the Second World War until today. It distinguishes three periods in terms of the degree and objectives of government intervention and the adaptation of the French system to a changing environment, including the role of European integration: (i) the immediate post-war years, characterised by industrial renewal and a gradual opening to intern…
The Emergence of New Competitor Nations in the European Steel Industry
This article examines the emergence of Italy and the Netherlands as new competitors in the European steel industry after the Second World War and compares it to similar developments in other parts of the world. It examines the factors which made it possible for these two countries to challenge some of the more established producing nations, despite a lack of natural resource endowments. The in-depth analysis highlights, on the one hand, the role …
Consultancy and conflicts
Cet article examine le rôle des consultants dans des conflits qui opposent différents groupes de cadres dans des entreprises clientes. Il analyse en détail deux cas : le producteur d’aciers spéciaux américain Lukens et le prédécesseur de la compagnie pétrolière britannique BP, en focalisant l’attention sur l’intervention du cabinet Bedaux dans les deux organisations. Dans le cas Lukens, deux membres opposés de la famille propriétaire embauchent d…
La relation client-consultant
British economic decline
This article examines dissemination of ‘work study’ from the 1920s to the 1960s in Britain and Continental Europe, and shows that semi‐public or associative institutions were more efficient ‘carriers’ of these new methods than management consultants. The predominant role of consultants in the British case therefore resulted in much lower rates of adoption compared, for example, to Germany. It also highlights the absence of trust and trust‐creatin…
Politique de productivité et formations à la gestion en France (1945-1960)
Cet article analyse en détail les efforts pour introduire le management à l’américaine dans le système éducatif français après la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale et les raisons de leur échec presque complet. Parmi ces raisons on relève en premier lieu la réticence des responsables des grandes écoles à tout changement ainsi que les confrontations entre différents groupes d’intérêts économiques et politiques pour le contrôle de la formation continue des c…
Consultancies, Institutions and the Diffusion of Taylorism in Britain, Germany and France, 1920s to 1950s
This essay compares and analyses the evolution of Taylorist consultancies in the three major European economies. It shows that institutions established by the business community, often with government support, can provide an alternative channel for the dissemination of new management methods. Unlike private consultancies, they immediately benefit from a high level of trust, facilitate inter-firm comparisons, and ensure a relatively uniform applic…
New business histories! Plurality in business history research methods
We agree with de Jong et al.'s argument that business historians should make their methods more explicit and welcome a more general debate about the most appropriate methods for business historical research. But rather than advocating one ‘new business history’, we argue that contemporary debates about methodology in business history need greater appreciation for the diversity of approaches that have developed in the last decade. And while the hy…
Private transnational governance in the heyday of the nation‐state
This article examines an example of private transnational governance in the first decades after the Second World War: the Council of European Industrial Federations (CEIF), created in 1949 by the peak‐level trade associations in western Europe. Based on this case, the article takes issue with two predominant views in the current literature: a view that sees the European integration process, at least in its early stages, as driven largely by natio…
Professions, organizations and the state
In the recent literature on knowledge-based occupations it is frequently noted that some groups, such as management consultants, have been far less successful than others in developing a system of professional regulation and organization. This is generally attributed to the functional characteristics of their knowledge base, which is too elusive, fuzzy and perishable to sustain traditional professionalization projects. It is also suggested that t…
Consultancies, Institutions and the Diffusion of Taylorism in Britain, Germany and France, 1920s to 1950s
This essay compares and analyses the evolution of Taylorist consultancies in the three major European economies. It shows that institutions established by the business community, often with government support, can provide an alternative channel for the dissemination of new management methods. Unlike private consultancies, they immediately benefit from a high level of trust, facilitate inter-firm comparisons, and ensure a relatively uniform applic…
Hollow from the start? Image professionalism in management consulting
This article shows how over the course of more than a century management consulting firms have managed to create an image of professionalism in order to both gain external legitimacy with their clients and control their own human resources. Adding to the extant literature on 'professionalism as a resource', it demonstrates in particular how during the development of the industry, the sources of this 'image professionalism' changed significantly, …
Between Regulation, Promotion and Consumption
It is very important to decide when to stop using the consultants, because you very easily get addicted, you very easily get used to these well trained, hard working people running around.1 During
Mintzberg's Emergent and Deliberate Strategies
The management scholar Henry Mintzberg has situated company strategies on a continuum that ranges from those that are the result of deliberate internal decisions, on one extreme, to those that emerge largely as a response to external forces, on the other. This framework is applied to the strategies of the Canadian aluminum producer Alcan, in Europe, from its origins as a spin-off from Alcoa, in 1928, until its acquisition by Rio Tinto, in 2007. T…
The Emergence of New Competitor Nations in the European Steel Industry
This article examines the emergence of Italy and the Netherlands as new competitors in the European steel industry after the Second World War and compares it to similar developments in other parts of the world. It examines the factors which made it possible for these two countries to challenge some of the more established producing nations, despite a lack of natural resource endowments. The in-depth analysis highlights, on the one hand, the role …
Management Education, Media and Consulting and the Creation of European Management Practice
European management practice is rapidly becoming standardized through the imitation of large actors and the interaction of institutions for management education, management media and management consulting. This process is reinforced by the fact that these three types of institutions are increasingly becoming more homogeneous. The CEMP research reported in this article provided evidence for these developments in terms of the structure of the diffe…
The managerialization of banking
This paper shows how banks in the USA and Western Europe became more managerial during the late 1960s and 1970s, due to the adoption of a multidivisional organizational structure, originally pioneered by industrial enterprises in the 1920s. This meant the introduction of a more elaborate hierarchy with more autonomy as well as accountability for all levels, including the branches, which were supposed to generate profits through more ‘aggressive’ …
La relation client-consultant
Inter-Firm Relations and Industrial Policy
This article contributes to the continuing discussion about the factors which explain the extent and the success of state intervention in different countries. Based on a detailed analysis of the steel producing and using industries in France and Germany, it shows that the quality of inter-firm relations played a crucial role as a determinant of industrial policy. In the French case, the relationship among the steel firms and between the producers…
Making managers
The idea that institutions at university level should engage in offering courses and programs to prepare people for administrative and managerial positions in commerce and business originally emerged in parallel in several countries during the mid- to late 19th century (Engwall and Zamagni 1998; Engwall, Kipping, and Üsdiken 2010, 2016). However, at that time, ‘business’ – or, more commonly, ‘commerce’ – was little respected within academia, with…
The Business of Dependency
Consultancy and conflicts
Cet article examine le rôle des consultants dans des conflits qui opposent différents groupes de cadres dans des entreprises clientes. Il analyse en détail deux cas : le producteur d’aciers spéciaux américain Lukens et le prédécesseur de la compagnie pétrolière britannique BP, en focalisant l’attention sur l’intervention du cabinet Bedaux dans les deux organisations. Dans le cas Lukens, deux membres opposés de la famille propriétaire embauchent d…
Politique de productivité et formations à la gestion en France (1945-1960)
Cet article analyse en détail les efforts pour introduire le management à l’américaine dans le système éducatif français après la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale et les raisons de leur échec presque complet. Parmi ces raisons on relève en premier lieu la réticence des responsables des grandes écoles à tout changement ainsi que les confrontations entre différents groupes d’intérêts économiques et politiques pour le contrôle de la formation continue des c…
Les tôles avant les casseroles
L’article démontre qu’une des raisons principales de la proposition française d’une communauté européenne du charbon et de l’acier (CECA) en 1950 fut la compétitivité internationale des industries transformatrices françaises (mécanique et automobile). Celles-ci furent à l’époque handicapées par rapport à leurs concurrents étrangers, allemands notamment, à cause des prix élevés et de la qualité irrégulière des produits sidérurgiques en France. L’o…
Inter-Firm Relations and Industrial Policy
This article contributes to the continuing discussion about the factors which explain the extent and the success of state intervention in different countries. Based on a detailed analysis of the steel producing and using industries in France and Germany, it shows that the quality of inter-firm relations played a crucial role as a determinant of industrial policy. In the French case, the relationship among the steel firms and between the producers…
Politique de productivité et formations à la gestion en France (1945-1960)
Cet article analyse en détail les efforts pour introduire le management à l’américaine dans le système éducatif français après la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale et les raisons de leur échec presque complet. Parmi ces raisons on relève en premier lieu la réticence des responsables des grandes écoles à tout changement ainsi que les confrontations entre différents groupes d’intérêts économiques et politiques pour le contrôle de la formation continue des c…
Consultancies, Institutions and the Diffusion of Taylorism in Britain, Germany and France, 1920s to 1950s
This essay compares and analyses the evolution of Taylorist consultancies in the three major European economies. It shows that institutions established by the business community, often with government support, can provide an alternative channel for the dissemination of new management methods. Unlike private consultancies, they immediately benefit from a high level of trust, facilitate inter-firm comparisons, and ensure a relatively uniform applic…
British economic decline
This article examines dissemination of ‘work study’ from the 1920s to the 1960s in Britain and Continental Europe, and shows that semi‐public or associative institutions were more efficient ‘carriers’ of these new methods than management consultants. The predominant role of consultants in the British case therefore resulted in much lower rates of adoption compared, for example, to Germany. It also highlights the absence of trust and trust‐creatin…
Consultancy and conflicts
Cet article examine le rôle des consultants dans des conflits qui opposent différents groupes de cadres dans des entreprises clientes. Il analyse en détail deux cas : le producteur d’aciers spéciaux américain Lukens et le prédécesseur de la compagnie pétrolière britannique BP, en focalisant l’attention sur l’intervention du cabinet Bedaux dans les deux organisations. Dans le cas Lukens, deux membres opposés de la famille propriétaire embauchent d…
La relation client-consultant
Les relations gouvernement-monde des affaires dans la France de l'après-guerre
The article gives an overview of the development of government-business relations in France from the end of the Second World War until today. It distinguishes three periods in terms of the degree and objectives of government intervention and the adaptation of the French system to a changing environment, including the role of European integration: (i) the immediate post-war years, characterised by industrial renewal and a gradual opening to intern…
The Emergence of New Competitor Nations in the European Steel Industry
This article examines the emergence of Italy and the Netherlands as new competitors in the European steel industry after the Second World War and compares it to similar developments in other parts of the world. It examines the factors which made it possible for these two countries to challenge some of the more established producing nations, despite a lack of natural resource endowments. The in-depth analysis highlights, on the one hand, the role …
The Americanisation of European Business
This book examines the mechanisms and channels through which American managerial know-how and US management models were transferred to Europe after 1945, as well as the actual influence on European industries, companies and regions in the 1950s and 1960s. It explores the role of the European Productivity Agency, business leaders, US multinationals, regional networks and institutions, as well as the actual transfer process and potential political,…
Converging towards American dominance? Developments and structures of consultancy fields in Europe
Cet article s’efforce d’analyser les tendances récentes en matière de structure et composition des marchés du conseil en Europe : ont-ils été peu à peu dominés par des sociétés qui diffusent avant tout les concepts américains de management ? Il met certes l’accent sur les contextes et les acteurs plus que sur les contenus diffusés, mais il représente une première étape dans la compréhension des rapports entre la structure de l’industrie du consei…
La France et les origines de l'Union europeenne. Integration economique et competitivite internationale
The Business of Dependency
Between Regulation, Promotion and Consumption
It is very important to decide when to stop using the consultants, because you very easily get addicted, you very easily get used to these well trained, hard working people running around.1 During
Management Education, Media and Consulting and the Creation of European Management Practice
European management practice is rapidly becoming standardized through the imitation of large actors and the interaction of institutions for management education, management media and management consulting. This process is reinforced by the fact that these three types of institutions are increasingly becoming more homogeneous. The CEMP research reported in this article provided evidence for these developments in terms of the structure of the diffe…
Private transnational governance in the heyday of the nation‐state
This article examines an example of private transnational governance in the first decades after the Second World War: the Council of European Industrial Federations (CEIF), created in 1949 by the peak‐level trade associations in western Europe. Based on this case, the article takes issue with two predominant views in the current literature: a view that sees the European integration process, at least in its early stages, as driven largely by natio…
Mintzberg's Emergent and Deliberate Strategies
The management scholar Henry Mintzberg has situated company strategies on a continuum that ranges from those that are the result of deliberate internal decisions, on one extreme, to those that emerge largely as a response to external forces, on the other. This framework is applied to the strategies of the Canadian aluminum producer Alcan, in Europe, from its origins as a spin-off from Alcoa, in 1928, until its acquisition by Rio Tinto, in 2007. T…
Historical perspectives on organizational stability and change
In this Introduction to the special issue, we begin by providing a brief review of the way history has been treated in existing work on organizational change, noting that a historical approach has either been non-existent or at best employed in a ‘supplementarist’ way. We then proceed to summarizing the empirical and theoretical foundations and the core arguments of the articles included in this special issue. In the final section, we conclude by…
Professions, organizations and the state
In the recent literature on knowledge-based occupations it is frequently noted that some groups, such as management consultants, have been far less successful than others in developing a system of professional regulation and organization. This is generally attributed to the functional characteristics of their knowledge base, which is too elusive, fuzzy and perishable to sustain traditional professionalization projects. It is also suggested that t…
Hollow from the start? Image professionalism in management consulting
This article shows how over the course of more than a century management consulting firms have managed to create an image of professionalism in order to both gain external legitimacy with their clients and control their own human resources. Adding to the extant literature on 'professionalism as a resource', it demonstrates in particular how during the development of the industry, the sources of this 'image professionalism' changed significantly, …
The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting
Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business, and within other types of organization. This book is an overview of eminent thinking and research on management consultancy with contributions from leading international scholars. The first section provides an account of the historical developments in management consultancy research, and how current thinking has evolved from prior work. The second section foc…
The Oxford handbook of management consulting
The managerialization of banking
This paper shows how banks in the USA and Western Europe became more managerial during the late 1960s and 1970s, due to the adoption of a multidivisional organizational structure, originally pioneered by industrial enterprises in the 1920s. This meant the introduction of a more elaborate hierarchy with more autonomy as well as accountability for all levels, including the branches, which were supposed to generate profits through more ‘aggressive’ …
Introduction
Emerging markets trigger great expectations. Many foreign multinationals are eager to exploit the entrepreneurial opportunities potentially related to less developed but fast growing markets. This is not a new phenomenon. Multinationals from more developed countries have for long searched for opportunities in less developed markets and have dealt with the related challenges. Foreign environments with different needs and capabilities, unstable ins…
New business histories! Plurality in business history research methods
We agree with de Jong et al.'s argument that business historians should make their methods more explicit and welcome a more general debate about the most appropriate methods for business historical research. But rather than advocating one ‘new business history’, we argue that contemporary debates about methodology in business history need greater appreciation for the diversity of approaches that have developed in the last decade. And while the hy…
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