The Engineering Origins Of the Consulting Industry And its Long Shadow

The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wright, Christopher ^a   Kipping, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Efficiency consultants; Engineering origins; Frederick W. Taylor; Management consulting; Model of management; Scientific management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923581341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199235049.013.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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