Dear friends and colleagues,
To celebrate the publication of our Special Issue on "Management Consulting and Uncertainty" (guest editors: Robin Fincham, Michael Mohe and David Seidl) the publisher is granting free access to all papers in the issue until December 9th, 2013. As you will see, the papers use uncertainty as a central metaphor for taking stock of wide-ranging developments in research on consultancy, both in terms of the basic idea of consultants as uncertainty reducers for management, and many other interesting ways that consultants' uncertain position in client organizations plays out.
Here is a list of the papers that have been included in the special issue
Robin Fincham, Michael Mohe, and David Seidl
Management Consulting and Uncertainty: Mapping the Territory
http://www.metapress.com/content/w4j132181l802255/
Barbara Czarniawska
The Uncertainties of Consulting
http://www.metapress.com/content/n19u573245453040/
Frida Pemer and Andreas Werr
The Uncertain Client of Management Consulting Services
http://www.metapress.com/content/x24j3m7t4751175q/
Onno Bouwmeester
Consultant Jokes about Managing Uncertainty: Coping by Humor
http://www.metapress.com/content/f44451v55k281845/
Andrew Sturdy, Nick Wylie, and Christopher Wright
Management Consultancy and Organizational Uncertainty: The Case of Internal Consultancy
http://www.metapress.com/content/y79w678567570622/
N. Natalia Nikolova, Stewart Clegg, Stephen Fox, Kjersti Bjørkeng and Tyrone Pitsis
Uncertainty Reduction through Everyday Performative Language Work: The Case of Coaching
http://www.metapress.com/content/g3p7841627k3hh2j/
We hope that you find the special issue of interest.
All the best
Robin, Michael and David
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Prof. David Seidl, PhD
Chair of Organization & Management
University of Zurich | Department of Business Administration
Universitaetsstrasse 84 | 8006 Zurich | Switzerland
Phone +41.44.6343750 | Fax +41.44.6343749
www.om.uzh.ch | david.seidl@uzh.ch
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