Transaction cost theory and management consulting: Why do management consultants exist?

Staffan Canback

Industrial Organization from EconWPA

Abstract: The paper sheds light on two questions, using transaction cost theory: 1) Why do management consultants exist, and 2) why do they organize in independent firms. The paper also contains a history of the management consulting industry.

Keywords: transaction cost theory; management consulting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mic
Date: 1998-10-11, Revised 2002-11-15
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