Consultants And Organization Concepts

The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Heusinkveld, Stefan ^a   Benders, Jos ^b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Concept development process; Demand side; Knowledge entrepreneurs; Management solutions; Organization concepts; Supply side

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875835426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235049.013.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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