Constructing global firms? National, transnational and neocolonial effects in international management consultancies

Boussebaa, Mehdi, Morgan, Glenn and Sturdy, Andrew 2012. Constructing global firms? National, transnational and neocolonial effects in international management consultancies. Organization Studies 33 (4) , pp. 465-486. 10.1177/0170840612443454

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Abstract

Drawing on an empirical study of four major international management consultancies, this article examines managerial efforts to construct ‘global’ organizations. We show how these efforts are undermined by inter-office conflicts over the staffing of client projects. We argue that such constraints cannot be adequately understood as an outcome of inappropriate organizational structures and incentives since this explanation ignores the important role of institutional contexts. In this vein, we outline and develop four different institutionalist lenses and apply them to the empirical findings. In so doing, we reveal the need to adopt a multi-dimensional institutionalist approach to the study of ‘global’ firms, one that can account for not only national effects but also transnational and neocolonial influences on these organizations.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Institutional theory; Management consulting; Multinational corporations; Postcolonial; Transnational
Publisher:	Sage
ISSN:	0170-8406
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 22:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/33711

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