A Rigorous and Relevant Research-Based Approach to Management Consulting: SEAM and Qualimetrics

Since 1997, ISEOR research center has been a partner of the MC Division along with a few other research centers focused on management consulting methodologies. This partnership has been an opportunity to set up debates between various scientific approaches to management consulting, in particular with the Tavistock Institute, Benedictine University, Center for Effective Organizations (USC), etc. In addition, international comparisons took place in the past 22 years through the organization of nine co-sponsored conferences and doctoral consortia in Lyon, France. Such conferences gave rise to an overall 900 papers, in addition to the 200 papers submitted by Iseor researchers to MCD over the past twenty years. In the wake of an overall 40 paper presentations at the MCD in the past twenty years and 9 co-sponsored MCD-ISEOR conferences in Lyon, the Socio-Economic Approach to Management has gained visibility through ten of the books edited by A. F. Buono in the Research Series in Management Consulting published by Information Age Publishing. Therefore, this proposed symposium to the MCD is an opportunity to formalize the learning of this long cooperation and its contribution to the scientific legitimacy of management consulting as a science that is as worthy as medicine, while focused on the health of companies and organizations.