Management Consultancy and the British State: A Historical Analysis Since 1960
Autor Antonio E. Weissen Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 noi 2018
The book demonstrates the role consultants played in major developments in the postwar period. Specific case studies interrogate how consultancies influenced the policy fields of health service reform and social security benefits. This book will redefine debates amongst business historians and historians of the postwar British state about the nature of management consultancy and public sector reform.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783319998756
ISBN-10: 3319998757
Pagini: 322
Ilustrații: XIV, 355 p. 20 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3319998757
Pagini: 322
Ilustrații: XIV, 355 p. 20 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
1. Introduction.- 2. Planning, 1960s-1970s.- 3. Reorganising, 1970s: The 1974 National Health Service Reorganisation and McKinsey & Company.- 4. Automating, 1980s: Arthur Andersen and the Operational Strategy.- 5. Delivering, 1990s-2000s.- 6. Conclusions.
Recenzii
“Antonio Weiss, himself a management consultant with 2020 Delivery, points out in his new and important book, academics have hitherto had ‘relatively little to say about the use of management consultants by the state’. The few researchers who have strayed into this area have adopted a simplistic viewpoint rather than an enquiring mind. … Weiss has unearthed many more of the facts and turned his research into a compelling narrative.” (Alan Leaman, CSW Civil Service World, civilserviceworld.com, July 23, 2019)
Notă biografică
Antonio E. Weiss is a management writer and advisor. He is a Director at 2020 Delivery, one of the United Kingdom’s leading public service management consultancy firms. He has written for a number of publications, including the Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect, and been featured on BBC Radio 4 and other international media. He received his PhD in History from Birkbeck, University of London. He is also an elected local government councillor in a London borough in the UK.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
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 into the machinery of the state; and how has the nature of management consultancy changed over time?
The book demonstrates the role consultants played in major developments in the postwar period. Specific case studies interrogate how consultancies influenced the policy fields of health service reform and social security benefits. This book will redefine debates amongst business historians and historians of the postwar British state about the nature of management consultancy and public sector reform.
The book demonstrates the role consultants played in major developments in the postwar period. Specific case studies interrogate how consultancies influenced the policy fields of health service reform and social security benefits. This book will redefine debates amongst business historians and historians of the postwar British state about the nature of management consultancy and public sector reform.
Caracteristici
First historical study examining how and why the British state has become one of the largest procurers of management consultancy services in the world Features dozens of interviews with senior figures from some of the largest consultancy firms in the world Offers detailed quantitative data on public sector expenditure on management consultancy services Highlights the changing nature of how consultancy firms communicated with their clients during the period