 Knowledge Narratives and Heterogeneity in Management Consultancy and Business ServicesRobin Fincham, Timothy Clark, Karen Handley and Andrew Sturdy Chapter 9 in Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour, 2008, pp 183-203 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract In the professional services, diversification into various types of business advice has implications for knowledge boundaries. This is a sector of changing jurisdictional patterns and periodic reconstruction. Firms like large law practices that feed services into corporate clients have been merging to provide global coverage (Suddaby and Greenwood, 2001; Suddaby et al., 2004). But new specialisms in areas like consulting and IT are even more dynamic. Patterns such as the growth in outsourcing and movement into management consulting accounted for stupendous growth of the global accounting firms. These changes have themselves been overtaken, as the IT and systems giants muscled into audit and consulting interests. Leading systems firms have taken over and merged with existing clusters of skills in a process seen by some as a historic wave in the evolution of the sector (Kipping, 2002; Kirkpatrick and Kipping, 2005). Keywords: Business Service; Professional Service; Work Context; Energy Company; Knowledge Type (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59282-7_9 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
School of Business at Örebro University.