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Cover 1 Title 5 Half-title 3 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Figures 9 Tables 10 Preface and acknowledgments 11 1 Management consultancy viewed from economic and sociological perspectives 19 The literature on management consulting 19 Theories used in this book 23 Sociological neoinstitutionalism 24 Signaling theory 26 Transaction cost economics 30 Embeddedness theory 32 Distinguishing and debating the four theories 36 Transaction cost economics versus embeddedness theory 36 Transaction cost economics versus sociological neoinstitutionalism 42 Signaling theory versus transaction cost economics 44 Sociological neoinstitutionalism versus signaling theory 45 Signaling theory versus embeddedness theory 47 Embeddedness theory versus sociological neoinstitutionalism 48 The case against incommensurability 50 PART I The mechanisms of the consulting market 57 2 Why do consulting firms exist and grow? The economics and sociology of knowledge 59 Transaction cost analysis of consultancy 63 Methods as a special type of knowledge 70 The growth of consulting from a transaction cost perspective 73 The growth of consulting from other theoretical perspectives 79 3 How do supply and demand meet? Competition an

Author

THOMAS ARMBRÜSTER

Language

EN