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  1. 1. Unpacking followership in a management consultancy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Elanor Jacobs; Saga Gardevärn; [2019]
    Keywords : Followership; social constructions; professional service firms; PSFs; knowledge intensive firms; KIFs; management consultancy; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Purpose – The purpose behind our study was to understand how individuals socially construct followership in a management consultancy. We did this through exploring the relations between consultants and their selected leaders, as well as through exploring how they related to the notion of followership. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Use of Management Control Systems for Controlling Intraorganizational Knowledge Transfer from Change Projects

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Sissela Ekdahl; Michelle Holmberg; [2018-07-02]
    Keywords : Management control systems; Knowledge transfer; Change projects;

    Abstract : Problem Background: Appropriate management of knowledge transfer is crucial for successful implementation of change. The use of management controls for controlling the transfer has been investigated, however mainly in knowledge intensive firms (KIFs) performing project-to-project or unit-to-unit transfer. READ MORE

  4. 3. Transcending autonomy and control through management accounting: A neoliberal perspective on MCS in the knowledge-intensive firm

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

    Author : Victoria Scheer; Carl Lekvall; [2017]
    Keywords : Management Control Systems; Knowledge-intensive firms; Foucault; Neo-liberalism;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine how Management Control Systems (MCSs) can balance the tension between autonomy and control in knowledge-intensive firms (KIFs). The study was carried out by conducting an in-depth single-case study at the Swedish branch of an international management consulting firm. READ MORE

  5. 4. Knowledge rhetoric in the “Big Four” consulting firms – the quest for legitimacy, and the peculiar case of similarity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Joachim Lindberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Knowledge rhetoric; normative; mimetic; isomorphism; legitimacy; KIF; Big Four; Deloitte; PwC; EY; KPMG; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the practice of knowledge rhetoric in knowledge-intensive firms (KIFs). The methodology applied to this qualitative study is based on the principles of a social constructivist paradigm. READ MORE