PhD defence
 
Irene Skovgaard Smith from Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy has submitted a PhD thesis entitled: 

Management Consulting in Action
- Value creation and ambiguity in client-consultant relations

The PhD thesis is an empirically based study of management consulting in the context of two assignments undertaken by two Danish consulting firms. The assignments were characterised by extensive consultant involvement in change implementation and engagement with a range of managers and employees in the client organisation. The thesis explores patterns of how the consultants and what they do are experienced and defined by these different internal actors in the two client organisations. The purpose is to show how consultants become positioned in the social contexts they enter and what opportunities and limitations this position creates.

Supervisor:
Professor Flemming Poulfelt
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School

The assessment committee consists of:

• Associate professor Maja Horst (President), Copenhagen Business School
• Manager Jan Bendix, Jan Bendix A/S
• Professor Timothy Clark, Durham Business School, UK

The defence takes place:
Friday 28 March 2008 at 14:00-16:00
Room: PH 408
Copenhagen Business School
Porcelænshaven 26, 2000 Frederiksberg
 
The Doctoral School on Knowledge and Management will host a reception in the canteen just after the defence.
 
Irene’s PhD thesis is available in the bookstore "Samfundslitteratur" approximately 10 days before the defence.