Publication Type
Book Review
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
3-2007
Abstract
Management consultants are a significant social and economic force. Few people, whether as citizens or members oforganizations, will have escaped the impact of their interventions. A survey revealed that 97 percent of the top 200 companies in the U.K. and U.S. have used management consultants. The spectacular growth of the industry in the last fiftyyears is evidenced by the fact that somewhere in the regionof 80 percent of firms currently operating were establishedafter 1980. The ratio of consultants to managers, as this bookdemonstrates, has grown from one to a hundred in 1965 toone to thirteen in 1995. In this clearly written and insightfulbook, McKenna seeks to answer the question of how “theleading consulting firms come to achieve such a dominanteconomic and cultural position” (p. 7) by the end of the twentieth century.
Discipline
Human Resources Management
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
Administrative Science Quarterly
Volume
52
Issue
1
First Page
142
Last Page
145
ISSN
0001-8392
ISBN
9780521810395
Identifier
10.2189/asqu.52.1.142
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US): No Embargo
Citation
CLARK, Timothy Adrian Robert.
Book review of "The world’s newest profession: Management consulting in the twentieth century". (2007). Administrative Science Quarterly. 52, (1), 142-145.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6332
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.52.1.142