Strategy followed structure: Management consulting and the creation of a market for "strategy," 1950-2000

Advances in Strategic Management

Volumn 29, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-186

  McKenna, Christopher ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Boston Consulting Group; History of strategy; Institutional isomorphism; Legitimacy; Management consulting; McKinsey Company

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886516855     PISSN: 07423322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0742-3322(2012)0000029010     Document Type: Review

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