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Are Senior Women Management Consultants Team Players?

In: Women’s Voices in Management

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  • Ivana Adamson

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Ongoing technological developments and increased global competition impose demands on managers to be adaptable, flexible, multiskilled, and ready to create new working systems out of old, in often difficult political and technological environments (Morgan, 1990; Wickham, 1999; Clark and Salaman 1996; Abrahamson 1996; Murray, 2014; Thamhain, 2013; Sargut et al., 2013). The management consulting industry has responded to these changes by offering “portfolio”-type services to organizations, thus beginning to play a key role in supporting a range of in-house noncore and developmental activities (Schein 1995, 1987, 2010; Keeble et al., 1992; Jones-Evans and Kirby, 1993; Powell, 1994, 1997; Mallon and Cohen, 2001; Clark and Finchham, 2002). It succeeds by being fast and flexible in responding to their clients’ needs, and since the early 1990s, grew by over 15 per cent per annum (Stumpf and Tymon, 2000). To boost its ranks, the industry began to recruit senior managers from the traditional economy industries, which in turn opened doors for women to enter management positions in both industries (Walby, 1997).

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  • Ivana Adamson, 2015. "Are Senior Women Management Consultants Team Players?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Helena Desivilya Syna & Carmen-Eugenia Costea (ed.), Women’s Voices in Management, chapter 8, pages 124-139, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-43215-5_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137432155_8
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