Management Consultancy and the British State A Historical Analysis Since 1960 /

• Main Author: Weiss, Antonio E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Business consultants.; Management.; Great Britain-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Business Consulting.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Modern Europe.

This book traces the emergence and development of the relationship between management consultancies and the British state. It seeks to answer three questions: why were management consultants brought into the machinery of the state; how has state power been impacted by bringing profit-seeking actors...