Assaying the ‘Advice Industry’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12721573 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Collins (0000-0001-6775-4067, University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-152 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture and Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-9551 • E-ISSN: 1477-2760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14759550600682965 |
| OpenAlex | W1974257878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper reflects critically on management consultants. The paper acknowledges those commentaries which suggest that management consultants must be understood as an element or node within a wider network which constitutes an advice or knowledge industry. However, the paper argues that our understanding of the consultant node within such networks has been fashioned in a manner that serves to restrict our appreciation of the nature and scope of the advice available to managers. To this end the paper attempts to identify a larger network of actors and agencies excluded from both critical and celebratory accounts of the advice industry, which is none the less fundamental to the reproduction of management. The paper concludes with the suggestion that Latour’s analysis of world‐building may offer a useful heuristic to those who would seek to understand the ways in which networks constitute the managed world
Advice (programming · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Heuristic · Knowledge management · Node (physics · Political science · Public relations · Reproduction · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice · Ecology
Science as Practice and Culture
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The Consultancy Process — An Insecure Business?
Symmetrical Absence/Symmetrical Absurdity
Bridging Uncertainty in Management Consulting
Actor network theory and after
The Management Guru as Organizational Witchdoctor
The Machinations of Change
Quick fixes, management culture and drug culture
Pyramid schemes and programmatic management
Critical Consulting
Why Management Scholars Must Intervene Strategically in the Management Knowledge Market
We Have Never Been Modern
Consulting as a Liminal Space
On Recalling Ant
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2016 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |