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Materializing the organization: The role of change consultants in processes of objectification
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posted on 2023-09-01, 14:03 authored by Irene Skovgaard-SmithThe purpose of this chapter is to explore the relevance of materiality for understanding consulting practice, based on an ethnographic study of consultants at work with clients on change projects. The chapter shows how consultants are given the role as objectifiers in client organizations and can potentially take part in materializing the organization and its problems and activities in ways that benefit the change process. However, such processes of objectification might also be truncated when the objects produced by consultants are rejected rather than reappropriated in the client organization.
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Research in Management ConsultingPublisher
Information Age PublishingPlace of publication
Charlotte, NCTitle of book
Consultation for Organizational Change RevisitedISBN
9781681234311Editors
David W. Jamieson, Robert C. Barnett, Anthony F. BuonoFile version
- Accepted version
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- eng
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2017-02-16Legacy creation date
2017-02-15Legacy Faculty/School/Department
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