Although now awaiting a return to the heady years of the late 1990s, the modern management consultancy industry is still vast. So, too, is the number of managers experienced in the use of management consultants. But the expansion of management consultancy has also attracted new customers among...

Summary Starbuck is critical of faddishness, and with good reason. Fads may come, and fads may go, but go they must--or must they? We look at the relentless pressure to publish in the top journals of Management Studies. There is no sign of decline, and yet such desperation to do something of...

Summary The primary purpose of academic citation, at least in Management Studies, is citation analysis. So much hangs on citation analysis as an indicator of academic performance - careers, funding, institutional survival - that papers are written as platforms for citation rather than to be...

It is often claimed that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is no longer as creative as it once was. Management consultants and the management methods they encourage are often held to blame. While managerialism has certainly been rampant in the BBC over the last decade, it is not clear...

An assessment of the technology business incubator (TBI)/science and technology (S&T) park scheme in the Philippines was carried out in the mid-1990s, when the scheme had been in operation some five years. In the initial enthusiasm, little attention had been paid to establishing precisely what...

This paper examines collaboration in Esprit (the European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technologies). Collaboration has long been a requirement for participation in the Programme. Our empirical data show that some collaborations are formed by including...