Management consulting firms are often discussed as being the firms whose core product is knowledge itself. However, despite the fact that consulting firms are generally aware of the value of knowledge for their own organizations and for their clients, the empirical evidence shows that even today the (economic and, above all, cognitive) value-creation potential related to the transition from consulting approaches geared to the transfer of “best practices” (consultant as expert) to consulting approaches geared to the cooperative creation of new knowledge and managerial capabilities (consultant as a facilitator of new managerial knowledge and capabilities creation processes) is rarely consciously perceived and, consequently, is not adequately planned for and exploited. This book interprets management consulting from a knowledge perspective, and proposes a general conceptual framework for investigating and interpreting that potential.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-2217-3872
Book Title
Knowing Through Consulting in Action
Book Subtitle
Meta-consulting Knowledge Creation Pathways
Authors
Francesco Ciampi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
128
Publication Year
2017
Copyright Information
© 2017 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-643-9
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-642-2
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-643-9
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6453-662-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-120-2
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919