Business Services, the Management of Change and Regional Development in the UK

A Corporate Client Perspective

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8962080
AutoresPeter Wood (0000-0002-1733-8900, autor de correspondencia)
Año1996
Volumen21
Número4
Páginas649-649
Fecha de publicación1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/622392
OpenAlexW2334131809
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas13

The expansion of business services in the UK since 1981 is reviewed in relation to general patterns of corporate management control. The results of a survey of strategic expertise exchange between consultancies and managers of major companies are presented. Consultancies are employed most by large, growing, decentralized service corporations in southern England and by those already experienced in change management. The reasons for the employment of different types of consultancy in corporate change are also examined. Clients emphasize their control over consultancies but are also increasingly dependent on them. Consultancy growth marks a developing social division of 'elite' management labour which has significance for rates of economic restructuring and the continuing focusing of control functions in southern England. © Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 1996

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