Institutional Change And The Growth Of Strategy Consulting In The United States

The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  David, Robert J ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business education; Early management consulting firms; Institutional changes; Legitimacy; Macroinstitutional changes; Military industrial complex; Resources; Strategy consulting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875854878     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235049.013.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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