In Search of Explanations for the Consulting Explosion. A Critical Perspective on Managers' Decisions to Contract a Consultancy

Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications.

Financial Support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, SFB 504, at the University of Mannheim, is gratefully acknowledged. We are grateful to Cornelia Hegele, Martin Selchert, Sandra Spreemann, Peter Walgenbach and Thomas Weinert, as well as to the participants of the SCANCOR Workshop Carriers of Management Knowledge, Stanford University, 16-17 September 1999 for valuable comments and insights. The text is part of a series sfbmaa Number 99-87 44 pages