Task, Firm Size, and 0rganizational Structure in Management Consulting: An Empirical Analysis from a Contingengy PerspectiveSpringer Science & Business Media, 2007. gada 6. nov. - 313 lappuses Foreword The management consulting industry has grown into a sizeable eco nomic sector and employment market in the outgoing 20* century. Globally operating management consulting firms, with thousands of consultants, have emerged. They coexist alongside many small consultancies and single practi tioners. As a result, a remarkable diversity in the organizational structure of management consulting firms has developed. Organizational structure is of utmost importance for consultancies as it directly impacts their business and employment models. Yet, little scientific explanation has been offered so far on the factors accounting for the diversity of organizational structure in manage ment consulting. Michael Graubner explores this contemporary topic. His research is guided by the contingency theory of organizations, one of the classical organi zation theory schools of thought that has been traditionally applied to investi gate organizational structure in manufacturing, banking, and the public sector. The author thoroughly reviews the different aspects of contingency theor- contingency factors, constructs of organizational structure, the concept of fit between contingencies and structure, organic vs. bureaucratic theory - and reflects on them in the light of other organization theory schools of thought. |
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Theory | 21 |
parsimonious model of contingency theory of organizations | 61 |
Methodology | 79 |
Initial coding at three parent nodes | 127 |
Results | 137 |
Number of consulting firms by marketing approach | 139 |
Number of consulting firms by involvement | 145 |
Number of consulting firms by productization | 151 |
Conclusion | 243 |
Appendix | 249 |
Node trees in NVivo | 255 |
Appendix VIExpressions used by the interviewees for the buyers of consulting services | 259 |
Organizational size values for different measures | 261 |
Structural differentiation values | 262 |
Specialization values | 264 |
Centralization values | 265 |
Number of consulting firms by hierarchical levels among | 158 |
Number of consulting firms by type of sales position | 164 |
Number of consulting firms by simultaneous projects | 170 |
Discussion | 205 |
Formalization values | 266 |
References | 267 |
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Blau & Schoenherr bureaucratic theory Burns & Stalker client contracts coefficient of determination constructs of organizational consulting firms Figure consulting project consulting services contingency factors correlation coefficient customers Donaldson due to insufficient example exploratory data analysis F-test formalization values functional focus Greenwood Hage hierarchy high task uncertainty hypotheses included due industry focus insufficient information Interview final interviewees reported junior consultants Kieser knowledge management Kubr Lorsch low task uncertainty Maister management consulting firms measures of task Miles & Huberman negative Neuman nodes Number of consulting number of employees ordinal scales organization theory organizational size values organizational structure overall partners percent performance production professional services project managers Pugh qualitative research regression relationships research studies sample scattergrams standard deviation strategy structural constructs structural contingency theory structural differentiation values support staff tainty task interdependence task uncer task uncertainty values theoretical concepts theory of organizations thesis tion topics
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