The management scholar Henry Mintzberg has situated company strategies on a continuum that ranges from those that are the result of deliberate internal decisions, on one extreme, to those that emerge largely as a response to external pressures, on the other. This framework is applied to the...

The historiography of business history is often recounted in linear terms, as evolving from a Chandlerian era focused on big business to a post-Chandlerian period marked by the study of a wide variety of organizational forms and topics. Taking a longer and more global perspective, we offer a...

Management consultants of various kinds play an important role in the world of business, and other organizations. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research and thinking on the role, history, and function of management consultants.