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Management Consultancy and the British State: A Historical Analysis Since 1960

This book traces the emergence and development of the relationship between management consultancies and the British state. It seeks to answer three questions: why were management consultants brought into the machinery of the state; how has state power been impacted by bringing profit-seeking actors into the machinery of the state; and how has the nature of management consultancy changed over time?

The book demonstrates the role consultants played in major developments in the postwar period. Specific case studies interrogate how consultancies influenced the policy fields of health service reform and social security benefits. This book will redefine debates amongst business historians and historians of the postwar British state about the nature of management consultancy and public sector reform.

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Management Consultancy and the British State: A Historical Analysis Since 1960

This book traces the emergence and development of the relationship between management consultancies and the British state. It seeks to answer three questions: why were management consultants brought into the machinery of the state; how has state power been impacted by bringing profit-seeking actors into the machinery of the state; and how has the nature of management consultancy changed over time?

The book demonstrates the role consultants played in major developments in the postwar period. Specific case studies interrogate how consultancies influenced the policy fields of health service reform and social security benefits. This book will redefine debates amongst business historians and historians of the postwar British state about the nature of management consultancy and public sector reform.

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Management Consultancy and the British State: A Historical Analysis Since 1960

Management Consultancy and the British State: A Historical Analysis Since 1960

by Antonio E. Weiss
Management Consultancy and the British State: A Historical Analysis Since 1960

Management Consultancy and the British State: A Historical Analysis Since 1960

by Antonio E. Weiss

Overview

This book traces the emergence and development of the relationship between management consultancies and the British state. It seeks to answer three questions: why were management consultants brought into the machinery of the state; how has state power been impacted by bringing profit-seeking actors into the machinery of the state; and how has the nature of management consultancy changed over time?

The book demonstrates the role consultants played in major developments in the postwar period. Specific case studies interrogate how consultancies influenced the policy fields of health service reform and social security benefits. This book will redefine debates amongst business historians and historians of the postwar British state about the nature of management consultancy and public sector reform.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319998763
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 10/26/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Antonio E. Weiss is a management writer and advisor. He is a Director at 2020 Delivery, one of the United Kingdom’s leading public service management consultancy firms. He has written for a number of publications, including the Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect, and been featured on BBC Radio 4 and other international media. He received his PhD in History from Birkbeck, University of London. He is also an elected local government councillor in a London borough in the UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Planning, 1960s-1970s.- 3. Reorganising, 1970s: The 1974 National Health Service Reorganisation and McKinsey&Company.- 4. Automating, 1980s: Arthur Andersen and the Operational Strategy.- 5. Delivering, 1990s-2000s.- 6. Conclusions.
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