Managing Expectations. Consultancy and Corporate Decision-Making in Germany after 1965

管理期望。

基本信息

项目摘要

This project examines the rise of consultancies and their impact on corporate decision-making in Germany after 1965. We argue that the growth of the consulting industry was due to a dynamic transfer of experiences between consultants and the client companies. This led to a growing influence on business expectations and corporate decision-making. We consider this to be a multilevel process: By promoting best practice management tools, consultants re-adjusted the relationship between “internal” and “external” experience within companies. Through their reports, articles, and books, consultants acted as providers of expectations about future changes in business and management. They explicitly linked problems of organization and strategy. The new management tools changed corporate decision-making, for instance by organizational re-structuring or the implementation of scientific instruments of expectation formation. Historical research has come to ambiguous results, portraying consultants either as providers of additional legitimacy to management boards or as pioneers of corporate change. To determine the role of consultants empirically, we adopt a three-step research approach: First, we will sketch the evolution of the consulting industry and examine its growth in terms of scope and level of professionalization. Second, we analyze consultants´ narratives of the future and investigate the dissemination of “management fashions” in business journals. For this purpose, we will build an extensive text database and adopt a text mining approach for our analysis. Third and foremost, we will explore the role of consultants in German companies after 1965 from a business history perspective. For the first time, this allows us to systematically study the implementation of management tools on the company level and their impact on corporate decision-making. We will build our empirical analysis on a large set of untapped business records from three different branches: automobile, chemical, and electronics.
本项目考察了1965年后咨询公司的兴起及其对德国企业决策的影响。我们认为,咨询业的增长是由于顾问和客户公司之间的经验动态转移。这导致对商业预期和公司决策的影响越来越大。我们认为这是一个多层次的过程:通过推广最佳实践管理工具,顾问重新调整了公司内部“内部”和“外部”经验之间的关系。通过他们的报告、文章和书籍,顾问们充当了对企业和管理未来变化的预期的提供者。他们明确地把组织问题和战略问题联系起来。新的管理工具改变了公司的决策,例如通过组织结构调整或实施期望形成的科学工具。历史研究得出了模棱两可的结果,将顾问描绘成管理委员会额外合法性的提供者或公司变革的先驱。为了从经验上确定咨询顾问的作用,我们采用了三步研究方法:首先,我们将勾勒出咨询行业的演变,并从专业化的范围和水平方面考察其增长。其次,我们分析了顾问对未来的叙述,并调查了“管理时尚”在商业期刊中的传播。为此,我们将建立一个广泛的文本数据库,并采用文本挖掘方法进行分析。第三,也是最重要的,我们将从商业历史的角度探讨1965年以后顾问在德国公司中的作用。这是第一次,我们可以系统地研究管理工具在公司层面的实施及其对公司决策的影响。我们将在汽车、化工和电子三个不同领域的大量未开发的商业记录上建立我们的实证分析。

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Professor Dr. Alexander Nützenadel其他文献

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{{ truncateString('Professor Dr. Alexander Nützenadel', 18)}}的其他基金

Expectation and Experience. A History of Economic Future (Synthesis Project)
期望和经历。
  • 批准号:
    415959756
  • 财政年份:
    2019
  • 资助金额:
    --
  • 项目类别:
    Priority Programmes
Industrial Policy in Japan during the Postwar Boom. Business, Government and International Technology Transfer 1955-1973
战后繁荣时期日本的产业政策。
  • 批准号:
    400896132
  • 财政年份:
    2018
  • 资助金额:
    --
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grants
Expectation and Forecast. Business Cycle Research in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands, 1920-1960
期望和预测。
  • 批准号:
    275757112
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    --
  • 项目类别:
    Priority Programmes
Coordination Funds
协调基金
  • 批准号:
    275769136
  • 财政年份:
    2015
  • 资助金额:
    --
  • 项目类别:
    Priority Programmes
Market Control and Politics.The International Cartel of Oil Corporations 1960-1980
市场控制与政治。国际石油公司卡特尔 1960-1980
  • 批准号:
    249568417
  • 财政年份:
    2014
  • 资助金额:
    --
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grants
Staging work in the corporatist state.Visual propaganda in Fascist Italy and in Peronist Argentina in a transnational perspective (1922-1955)
在社团主义国家中开展工作。跨国视角下的法西斯意大利和庇隆主义阿根廷的视觉宣传(1922-1955)
  • 批准号:
    225520915
  • 财政年份:
    2013
  • 资助金额:
    --
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grants
Getreidehandel, Bankgeschäft und die Formierung des deutsch-jüdischen Wirtschaftsbürgertums in Berlin (1850-1933)
柏林的粮食贸易、银行业和德国犹太人经济公民身份的形成(1850-1933)
  • 批准号:
    204555292
  • 财政年份:
    2011
  • 资助金额:
    --
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grants
Programmare il miracolo economico? Industriepolitik in Italien zwischen Boom und Krise (1958-1973)
经济奇迹计划?
  • 批准号:
    123578791
  • 财政年份:
    2009
  • 资助金额:
    --
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grants
Towards a New Fiscal Contract.Taxes, Inflation, and Politics in Italy (ca. 1960-1990)
迈向新的财政契约。意大利的税收、通货膨胀和政治(约 1960-1990 年)
  • 批准号:
    531885424
  • 财政年份:
  • 资助金额:
    --
  • 项目类别:
    Research Grants

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