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date: 26 January 2021

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This article explores the role of organization concepts in management consulting work. It differentiates the supply-side perspective from the demand-side perspective, and discusses the different approaches that focus on the former. It then provides a review of related literature, where consultants are considered as important ‘knowledge entrepreneurs’ in the market for management solutions. It then turns to the demand side of the concept development process. This article also emphasizes the need to focus more on the interaction between the supply and demand sides of the market for management solutions in future research.

Keywords: organization concepts, supply-side, demand-side, knowledge entrepreneurs, management solutions, concept development process

Stefan Heusinkveld

Stefan Heusinkveld is Associate Professor at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research concentrates on the production and consumption of management ideas and, in particular, the role of management consultants and management gurus. Stefan's work has appeared in various journals such as Organization Studies, Human Relations, Management Learning, Information and Management, Technovation, Quality and Quantity, and Journal of Organizational Change Management. His book on knowledge-based innovation in consultancies will be published by Routledge in 2012.

Jos Benders

Jos Benders holds the Chair of Organization Concepts at Tilburg University and is a Guest Professor at the Centre for Sociological Research of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research interests include (fashionable) organization concepts, new technology in organizations, ‘lean’ management in health care, self-directed work teams, and late medieval coinage in the Low Countries. He is co-author and author of a wide range of publications, and has published in such journals as Human Relations, Information and Management, Journal of Management Studies, Numismatic Chronicle, and Organization.

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